This fulfilling dish very rich in butter, cheese, potato and cabbage is called Pizzoccheri, pronounced ‘pizzo-kke-ree’, a tagliatelle-alike short pasta with a porous and rustic texture made from buckwheat flour.…
This traditional stale bread cake is called Torta Paesana and has a dense and moist soft texture. Nowadays, some also add crumbled Amaretti biscuits or even candied fruit or pine…
Milanese Ossobuco, or simply Ossobuco, is a classic dish from Milanese cuisine, perfect for warming up during the winter months. This dish features tender veal shanks slow-cooked in butter and…
Riso al Salto Milanese is a savoury crispy rice cake traditionally made from leftover Milanese saffron risotto. It is lightly pan-fried and flipped like a frittata—but it’s not a frittata!…
The tradition of eating Polenta in Italy is older than the introduction of sweetcorn in the 16th century. However, in Lombardy region, precisely in its Alpine region Valtellina and in…
