Favorite Italian Food

turtledove

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Everybody has an Italian food they love, whether it's pizza, pasta, caprese salad, bruschetta or focaccia bread... The options are simply endless.

My favorite Italian delicacy has to be ravioli. I love spinach and ricotta ravioli, as there's nothing that compares in other cultures.

What's you're favorite Italian dish?
 
I have too many favorite dishes, but the ones I always go for are pasta with porcini or with a fresh pesto sauce. Those made well are delicious. I even like a good bowl of fresh pasta with butter or aglio. I like simple well cooked dishes and a good porcini and funghi risotto can take a long time to make, but is worth it, although it can be high in calories if it's for dinner.

Pasta dishes are different in Italy than say fast food places in the UK or the US, so people should not be put off when they see it on a real Italian menu. It's not about quantity, but quality and that's what real Italian places focus on. Naturally I love pasta with truffles, but most with only add a shaving or a dash of truffle oil.
 
Osso bucco, without a doubt. I mean -- I stopped eating meat because of reasons, but darn. I remember my osso bucco dish in Rome and it was delicious!

On a more common one, lasagne. Not with ricotta or bechamel sauce or anything -- just those lasagne with bolognese sauce that are oh so exquisite.
 
There are simlpy to many, depending on the time of the year and where you are.... Whilst I love pizzocheri (buckwheat pasta with potatoes and abundance of cheese) but I couldn´t bear to eat it in the summer. However, one of my all time favorites is the melanzane alla parmegiana (my apologies for terrible spelling!). It´s a light and simple dish made of aubergine, tomato sauce and parmesan. It does take some time and effort to make it however, as the melanzane need to be fried prior assmebly and cooking in the oven to resemble a lasagne without pasta :)
 
Handmade gnocchi is my absolute favorite. It's just the perfect vessel for a delicious sauce too. Apart from that I do love ravioli or cannelloni, but really - is there a bad Italian food? I feel like every time I eat in Italy it's an amazing experience. I don't think I've had a bad meal there.
 
I have to agree an say that I've never had a bad Italian meal in Italy either to be honest. I don't know if we've just been lucky, as I'm sure for the food connoisseur, some places are better than others but for my untrained pallet, all the restaurants, coffee shops and cafes we've been to have been faultless.
 
Handmade gnocchi is my absolute favorite. It's just the perfect vessel for a delicious sauce too. Apart from that I do love ravioli or cannelloni, but really - is there a bad Italian food? I feel like every time I eat in Italy it's an amazing experience. I don't think I've had a bad meal there.
I agree, I'm not sure if there's such a thing as 'bad' Italian food. Every Italian delicacy I've tasted is wonderful, wherever I've bought it from. Either I've just been lucky, or people just generally don't mess up Italian food very easily.
 
Pizza. Should I really say more? I mean it's maybe the most popular food of the entire world, everybody once in a life has eaten a pizza. Indipendently from the type of the condiments used the pizza is always good and taste wonderfully!
 
I agree, I'm not sure if there's such a thing as 'bad' Italian food. Every Italian delicacy I've tasted is wonderful, wherever I've bought it from. Either I've just been lucky, or people just generally don't mess up Italian food very easily.

That's what I was thinking too - either I've just had an amazing run of fabulous food, or the people cooking it are just experts at their craft and don't cook it badly!