What to eat in Salento?
Typical dishes and delicacies of the heel of Italy
The question we are most often asked by our guests is: “What to eat in Salento?”
It is natural, in fact, that when you are on holiday you do not visit only places, but meeting people, experiencing traditions and trying new flavors. Let’s talk about those from Salento. What are the must-have dishes? The typical Salento cuisine is substantially poor, consisting mainly of pasta, legumes, greens, small-sized fish and simple portions of meat.Let’s start from the first…
which are also a rich single dish: on the podium the “Ciceri e Tria“: a tasty dish of homemade pasta similar to tagliatelle and chickpeas, but which also has the fried pasta. The particularity of the dish, in fact, is that pieces of pasta, the trie, are fried in olive oil, obtaining the so-called frizzuli, which give a crunchy note on the plate. Another very tasty and simple pasta is the “Sagne ‘Ncannulate“, a homemade pasta in the shape of a long twisted strip, similar to tagliatelle, usually seasoned with a fresh tomato sauce and basil with the addition of ricotta forte or ricotta “scanta”, slightly spicy. On the podium of typical dishes there are certainly “Cicoredhe cu le fave nette”, a poor and nutritious dish typical of Mediterranean cuisine. A mashed broad beans, accompanied by wild chicory boiled and seasoned with a drizzle of oil. Simple and tasty. With legumes, we recall the “Cecamariti” a poor man’s dish quickly prepared in simple homes with leftovers from previous days, made up of legumes, vegetables, and stale bread that was fried .
