Northern Italian Pasta Recipes: A quick starter guideThis selection of delicious northern italian pasta recipes is designed to provide a sumptuous starter guide to the best the region has to offer. From Tuscan bean pasta and classic bolognese sauce to minestrone soup and fresh green pesto, it's all here... explained in simple steps and written with cooks of every level in mind. In addition to Northern Italian pasta recipes, I even include a quick guide to some very Northern pasta shapes (learn more about pasta shapes here). Let's get started then... with a map of the region (courtesy of Microsoft.)
Tuscan Pasta Recipes This delicious dish is quite literally full of beans and a true winter warmer. Make these traditional cheese n' veg parcels from scratch with this fresh-pasta-and-stuffing recipe. Scrummy. Ligurian pasta recipes Whip up some green, crunchy and super-fresh pesto - Genovese-style - with this easy video guide. (There's also a written version here.) Pesto pasta recipe with green bean & potato Following on from the pesto recipe above, this recipe explains how to add crunchy green beans and soft potato to create a traditional Ligurian treat. Effectively a 'big broth', this veggie soup is seriously wholesome. Courgette (zucchini), cannellini beans, carrot and tomatoes, celery... it's all in there!
Spaghetti bolognese ('spag bol') Direct from the town of Bologna comes a classic dish. Heavy on the meat, light on the tomato, this authentic version is a protein-packed feast. You can find the sauce-only version here. Venetian Pasta Recipes If you like your spaghetti dishes light, sweet and oniony then this Venetian recipe is for you. Translated simply as ‘bigoli in sauce’ it's eaten the evening before the La Festa del Redentore in July and it dissolves a handful of anchovies into a transculent onion sauce. Scrummy! Northern Italian Pasta Shapes Read more about all these shapes here. Originating from Liguria, the much overlooked and beautiful coastal region of North West Italy, corzetti are a flat circular pasta ‘stamped’ to resemble ancient coins. Another pasta originating from Liguria, linguine refers to long flat strips of pasta (thinner than fettuccine). The name used in Liguria for linguine. This is often served with traditional Ligurian pesto (see this 5-minute pesto recipe). Originally from Camogli (pronounced 'cam-oi-yee'), close to the super-swish coastal resort of Portofino, trofie were traditionally rolled on the knees of fishermen's wives who, it is said, did this rolling whilst looking out to sea waiting for their (fisher)men to return. Recommended Read:
This wonderful buy is choc-a-block full of authentic Italian dishes, such as chicken diavolo, rabbit in white wine, fried artichoke wedges, all kinds of antipasto starter treats and many more. Find it on Amazon US here If interested, why not also take a look at my Italian cookbook selection? New! CommentsHave your say about this page! Just add a comment in the box below. |
If you love eating and/or cooking your way around Northern Italy, check out Marcella Hazan's The Classic Italian Cookbook. 
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