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Primi

  • Chicche con cicale di mare

    This seafood primo piatto has some unusual ingredients, but it’s simple and delicious when eaten by the sea.

    English Name: Gnocchetti with Seafood · Course: Primo Piatto · Author

  • Culurgionis

    Culurgionis are a Sardinian pasta stuffed with potatoes and mint and sauced with olive oil and pecorino cheese or a tomato sauce.

    English Name: Culurgionis · Course: Primo Piatto · Author

  • Fagottini Pasta

    Fagottini are little stuffed bundles of pasta formed into a round bundle. You’ll find them in the north of Italy, mostly in Lombardia and Emilia Romagna.

    English Name: Fagottini · Course: Primo Piatto · Author

  • Pane Frattau

    Pane frattau was born in the Barbagia region of Sardinia, a dish of layered carta di musica bread, tomato sauce and pecorino sardo cheese. You’ll find it in many restaurants in the Sardinian interior listed as a primo piatto.

    English Name: Pane frattau · Course: Primo Piatto · Author

  • Pansotti con Salsa di Noci

    Pansotti con Salsa di Noci is a triangular “ravioli” with a walnut sauce often seen on Ligurian menus. It’s a classic of the region and a lighter pasta dish than you might think

    English Name: Triangular ravioli in Walnut Sauce · Course: Primo Piatto - Pasta · Author

  • Pappardelle al Cinghiale

    A classic dish of Tuscany, especially in the Maremma, Pappardelle al cinghiale, wide noodles in a spiced wild boar sauce, cry out to be eaten, if only to save the countryside from what has become quite a (tasty) pest.

    English Name: Wide Noodles with Wild Boar Sauce · Course: Primo Piatto - Pasta · Author

  • Pasta con Ragu di Cervo

    Ragu di Cervo, a venison sauce to be used over egg pasta or polenta, is frequently found in the north of Italy, especially in the Italian region of the Trentino.

    English Name: Venison Sauce · Course: Primo Piatto - Pasta · Author

  • Risotto con Fegato di Pollo

    Looking for something nobody at home would think of when they were thinking of Italian food? Chicken liver risotto would be one of those dishes.

    English Name: Risotto with Chicken Livers · Course: Primo · Author

  • Tordelli Lucchesi

    Tordelli lucchesi are a rather large ravioli stuffed with meat in a meat sauce as they make it in Lucca, a filling first course or primo piatto.

    English Name: Meat Ravioli with meat sauce · Course: Primo Piatto · Author

  • Trenette alla renaiola

    Born on the Arno river, Trenette alla Renaiola was often consumed by sand barge crews working around Pisa.

    English Name: Trenette pasta the Renaiola Way · Course: Primo Piatto · Author