In a traditional Italian meal the “Contorni” are usually served as a side dish for the second course, just after the “Primi Piatti” but before the Desserts. In this recipe you will find recipes to cook almost any vegetables, ideas for salads, traditional preparations with potatoes and the likes.
A simple, flavorful Italian mushroom recipe (Funghi Trifolati) cooked in olive oil, garlic, and parsley. Ready in just 5 minutes, perfect with meat, fish, polenta, or pasta.
Cooked in a pan or baked with toasted breadcrumbs and capers, these bell peppers ‘ca muddica‘ – bread crumbs in Sicilian dialect – is a classic Sicilian side-dish perfect to…
These Jacket potatoes are perfect as a side dish or even as a main course with this filling of stringy mozzarella, herbs and a sprinkling of Parmigiano Reggiano. Serves 4,…
Friggitelli peppers, are a variety of little long sweet peppers with a green colour typical of central-southern Italy. In Naples they are also called ‘puparuoli friarelli’. In other parts of…
Delicious veggie balls perfect either as a starter or side dish. You can use leftover spinach or cooking it from scratch, use tinned chickpea, prepare them in advance, frying or…
