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Food
Traditional Italian Easter food
On Easter’s Sunday many
people like spending time with
their family, sitting around the
table. But what are the
traditional recipes that the
Easter table cannot miss?
1. lamb
The most popular food is lamb,
cooked in different ways,
depending from the Italians
regions: for example, in the
oven with backed potato, with
rosemary and onion, cooked
stew in wine, anchovies and
garlic. This habit comes from
Jewish people who sacrificed a
lamb and roasted it for eating,
with bitter herbs and
unleavened bread, to recall their
exile.
2. brasato with Barolo
In some areas of Piemonte the
main course in not lamb, but
“brasato” (braise), a stew made
with beef meat, marinated and
coked for two hours in a
excellent red wine with a lot of
vegetables .
It can be served with a pure of
potato or polenta.
by the miracle and decided to
give him the territory of
Bobbio as a gift, and there was
built San Colombano Abbey.
5. eggs
Traditionally eggs are decorated
and painted before eating
3. casatiello during lunch. Christianity made
Tortano or casatiello is a salty eggs the symbol of Christ
pie from Napoli, filled with empty grave after resurrection.
bacon, salami, boiled eggs and
sweet or half spicy provolone
cheese. Traditionally served on
Easter's eve, it remains very soft
for many days because of sugna
(pork fat).
6. Chocolate Easter egg
The word greatest chocolate
egg has been made in 2011 in
Cremona - Italy. It was 10
metres and 40 centimetres high
and 7,2 kilos heavy, with a
4. colomba circumference about 20 metres.
La colomba is a soft cake filled
with candied fruits, almonds
and sugar crumble. The legend
of san Colombano tells that the
Saint has been invited for lunch
by the Longobardi Kings. He
refused to eat game because he
wanted to respect Lent time.
He said that the game needed
to be blessed, and so he did.
Immediately all the meat was
changed into white bread doves.
The Queen was very surprised
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