10 most delicious dishes of Italian cuisine

Italy has given the world a lot of incredibly delicious and diverse dishes. Millions of people start the day with a cup of espresso coffee, prepare spaghetti for lunch, order pizza... For Italians themselves, food is a celebration of life, not the art of the cook. During the meal, they can spend hours enjoying each dish.

1. Bruschetta (ital. bruschetta) — a traditional Central Italian vernacular dish, nowadays - an appetizer—"antipasto" before the main course changes to "raise appetite". A distinctive feature of bruschetta from a sandwich or toast is that the slices of bread are pre-dried before frying (on the grill, grill or in a frying pan without oil). Ciabatta is ideal for making bruschetta.

2. Chicken Parminiana — baked chicken breasts in tomato sauce with parmesan. The dish is popular in the Campania region and on Sicily.

3. Panini is an Italian closed sandwich or sandwich. It is made from white wheat bread, mainly baguette, it is served hot. The classic filling is mozzarella, ham, tomatoes and pesto sauce.

4. Panna Cotta (ital. Panna cotta — "Boiled cream") — northern Italian dessert made of cream, sugar and vanilla.

5. Tramezzino — a triangular sandwich or sandwich. A popular filling is tuna, olives and prosciutto.

6. Tiramisu is one of the most popular desserts in the world. The dessert consists of the following ingredients: mascarpone cheese, coffee (usually espresso), chicken eggs, sugar and savoyardi cookies.

7. Tortellini (Italian Tortellini) — Italian dumplings made of unleavened dough with meat, cheese or vegetables. The historical birthplace of Tortellini is the Emilia region

8. Lasagna (Italian lasagne is a traditional dish of Italian cuisine, especially of the city of Bologna, made from layers of dough mixed with layers of filling, filled with sauce (usually bechamel). The layers of the filling can be from meat stew or minced meat, tomatoes, spinach, other vegetables and, of course, parmesan cheese.

9. Spaghetti (Italian Spaghetti) — type of paste. The homeland of spaghetti is Italy, and they are widely used in Italian cuisine, often served with tomato sauce. Spaghetti is the basis of numerous Italian dishes. Spaghetti was born in Naples and owes its name to Antonio Viviani, who nicknamed them so in 1842 for their similarity to pieces of twine. The Spaghetti Museum displays 176 types of pasta. The Italian word "spaghetti" is not all noodles, but a strictly defined type of Italian pasta.

10. And, of course, pizza is an Italian national dish in the form of a round open tortilla, covered in the classic version with tomatoes and melted cheese (usually mozzarella). In connection with the import of tomatoes to Europe in 1522, a prototype of Italian pizza appeared in Naples. In the XVII century, special people ("pizzaiolo", pizzaiolo) appeared, preparing pizza for Italian peasants.