The first thing you have to understand is that the most difficult thing about eating in Italy is that you can’t try everything. Here we are with a small chart of an infinite number of Italian dishes that you “absolutely need to try”. Pizza and pasta are obviously in, but let’s read to catch your next tips about Italian food with the chart of the best 5 dishes to eat in Italy.
1 – Pizza Easy, cheap, and filling, pizza has long been a common snack or meal, especially in Naples, the perfect city to get your slice. Tomato sauce, mozzarella, and basil has been the first ingredients and today ‘Margherita’ is the easiest and best seller pizza all over the world.
Neapolitan-style pizza and Roman-style pizza are the most used in Italy – but no comparison, please. Taking comparison with the pizza’s birthplace can be outrageous also for Italians. So must know the first one has a thick, fluffy crust. It tends to be a little smaller in diameter because the dough hasn’t been rolled out as far and it’s more filling. The second one has a paper-thin crust and just the slightest crunch.
2 – Pasta (Lasagne) Lasagna is a wide, flat pasta noodle, usually baked in layers in the oven. Like most Italian dishes, its origins are hotly contested, but we can at least say that’s its stronghold is in the region of Emilia-Romagna, where it transformed from a poor man’s food to a rich meal filled with the ragù, or meat sauce. To make your personale recipe you can use only ragù, béchamel sauce, and cheese, usually mozzarella or Parmigiano Reggiano or a combination of the two. Than be ready for a great flavour and a magic tasty. If Emilia Romagna is the birthplace, all over the country you can get your perfect dish of pasta – because pasta has an italian soul.
3 – Bottarga
Smoked eggs from the rat of the sea make the best possible bottarga known in Italy also as the “Sicilian Caviar”. It’s a rough description on an Italian delicacy, we know, but have you ever tried it grated on your fish first courses?
Southern Italians take the roe from grey mullets, salt it, press it, and then leave it to air dry for six months. The result is a solid hunk of eggs the color of amber and blood oranges that, when sliced and eaten or grated over pasta, blossoms into a gloriously savory, smoky, and briny bouquet. But it’s a luxurious dish, pay attention to your bill!
4 – Focaccia
There are hundreds of types of bread in Italy, but have you ever known that for any kind of bread there is a type of focaccia too? One of the regional most eaten dish is definitely different in any part of the country. In Tuscany it’s made without salt, in Puglia it’s made with poor tomatoes, in Liguria it’s made without nothing at all – they are quite stingy, we know! But if you want to get the best possible focaccia in italy the focaccia messinese it’s what you definitely must try. Prepared in a wood oven with a crunchy base made with durum wheat flour and corn flour, in its traditional version it is seasoned with tomato, anchovies and escarole.
Above you have to add a typical Sicilian cheese: tuma. It is recommended a drizzle of oil on the whole pan as well as a sprinkling of black pepper at the end. And it’s even economic, but be sure you’re going to the best possible bakery to get the traditional one.
5 – Arancino
There is dispute: Arancina o Arancino? Well, it depends on which part of Sicily you are eating it! Close to Palermo it’s Arancina, elsewhere it’s Arancino, and what we wanto to suggest you. One type of freshly-fried rice cooked in saffron and filled with ragù inside.
In the North of Italy you can find it with the name of supplì, but don’t wast your time – the best ones are in Sicily even if appear in bars, restaurants, and market stalls all over Italy. You will also find specialty arancini like carbonara, norma, arrabbiata, butter, though purists tend to turn up their noses at these newfangled inventions.
Are you finally hungry right now? So let’s try to make it at home or visit Italy! In the meanwhile let’s keep follow us to find out your best tips for Italian food.
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