Food and Wine Traditions
The cuisine handed down over time, recipes, typical local products to savor all the excellences that make our land so good.
Peppers with breadcrumbs, the recipe for a delicious side dish
Seasoned with breadcrumbs, peppers are a tasty side dish made with vegetables that are well suited to any type of meal. It...
A specialty of Salento: the recipe of horse meat with tomato sauce
If you are a true expert of meat dishes, you can’t help tasting the horse meat with tomato sauce, a precious dish of...
Rice, potatoes and mussels, here’s how to cook the tajeddha
The tajeddha is a dish that combines the taste of the sea (with mussels) to that of the earth (with potatoes) in a...
The snails of Salento, the recipe of “municeddhi”
If you believe that the French are the only ones to cook and eat snails, you are wrong! In Salento “municeddhi”(snails) are a...
The king among the dishes of Sundays, the recipe of the “Sagne ‘ncannulate”
There is no Sunday without a dish of Sagne ‘ncannulate, the fresh pasta par excellence of Salento. Seasoned with tomato sauce and cacio...
The most famous dessert of Salento, here it is the recipe of pasticciotto
Pasticciotto is a classic in Salento’s breakfast and lately it is getting more and more famous not only in Salento. With its oval...
Countryside chicory: a must of Salento’s cuisine, from the harvest to the table
One of the most important products of this land, the chicories are not a simple side dish. Behind the dish, in fact, there...
In Salento we usually eat the aubergines “alla poverella”
In general they are cooked in many ways, but the aubergines “alla poverella” are a very delicious and tasty side dishes … do...
Christmas tradition’s dessert of Salento, the recipe of purceddhruzzi
Christmas in Salento doesn’t taste the same without purceddhruzzi. What are they? They are tiny and sweet pieces of fried pasta, covered with...
Fried eggplants seasoned with tomato sauce and mozzarella, who doesn’t love parmigiana?
The origin of this dish is still uncertain, some attribute it to Sicily, others to Campania or to the city of Parma. What...