Abruzzo Food Traditions

In italy easter is first a religious event but it is also celebrated with typical easter foods and abruzzo plays a major role in keeping the traditions alive.

Abruzzo food traditions.

In particular the easter rites attract thousands of visitors to abruzzo because particularly evocative and exciting. Traditions and flavours in a snapshot. Confesercenti an italian trade organization conducted a 2013 study which. The most interesting abruzzese culinary tradition is la panarda a multi course feast of gargantuan proportions.

Ceremonies la processione del venerdi santo chieti good friday read more chieti s good friday s. The traditions of abruzzo offers an extraordinary heritage. They are cubes of sheep impaled on wooden skewers and cooked on fornacellas a special narrow grill that people use in abruzzo. Desperate the woman prayed to saint anthony of abate and the wolf let the baby go.

Talking about the main courses timballo is the abruzzese version of the famous lasagna. It s what we consider one of the 14 experiences you should make when travelling in abruzzo and we are sure you will love them. The dish scrippele mbusse was born. Easter in abruzzo in a simple snapshot.

The isolation which has characterized the region for decades has ensured the independence of its culinary tradition from those of nearby regions. A local cook while preparing a meal for french officers by accident put some crêpes in a bowl with chicken broth. A legend holds that la panarda was born when a young mother gone to fetch water near her home returned to find her newborn in the mouth of a wolf. Another inevitable abruzzo food dish is the rustic pizzas from the easter pizza a rustic cake with cheese and pepper from the teremano area to fiadoni from chieti dough of eggs and cheese well risen cooked in the oven in a thin casing of pastry to the omnipresent rustic tart often enriched by a casing of pastry and filled with everything imaginable.

By sam dunham 25 03 2016. During the holy friday parades commemorating the passion and death of christ parade along the streets of many towns. Most of the pasta they eat is dried pasta made from semolina and. Staples of abruzzo cuisine include bread pasta meat cheese and wine.

Eggs fresh cheeses ricotta vegetables with all the flavorings as spices that the mind can only imagine. Small crêpes sprinkled with cheese rolled up and served in broth. Abruzzese pasta is consumed all over the region of course and the world but in the valleys and plateaus of the middle turf some of italy s finest hard durum wheat or semolina is grown. In chieti one of the most ancient in italy the procession of the dead christ starts from the.

The abruzzese version of crêpes is called scrippele. Exploring its ceremonies and processions over the revered holy weekend and recipes eaten locally to welcome spring and take on the first picnic of the year. This is firm nutty stuff once again confirming the abruzzese penchant for the rugged. Don t be afraid to put the knife and fork to one side as these authentic treats are traditionally eaten by hand with fresh bread or pane bruschettato and olive oil.

For when you roll down the high slopes to the middle hill terrain you find one of abruzzo s greatest gems.