Authentic Italian Recipes
Caciocavallo literally means cheese on horseback. The name comes more from the look rather than the source because the cheese when purchased looks like saddlebags. It is a type of cheese which has been aged for a minimum of 4 to 6 months and when …
Winter and spring is soup season so we hope you have been enjoying some of the great Italian soup recipes we have been adding for you to try. Most of the Italian soups we grew up were not chunky so no hearty steak and potato at our house. We had Lentil Soup, Little Ball Soup (Pastine) and Italian Wedding Soup which has gained some notoriety as a result of Restaurant chains like East Side Mario’s. This soup contains a little pasta, some broth and mini meatballs and is a unique blend not typical of North American soups. Here is our version of Italian wedding soup…buono appetito
Ingredients
1 cup(s) orzo or Mamma prefers to use pastine Molisana or little ball soup
1 tablespoon(s) extra-virgin olive oil
1 pound(s) fresh chicken sausage, casings discarded and meat rolled into 20 1-inch meatballs
(the original recipe calls for beef/pork meatballs in the soup… here is Mamma’s recipes for authentic meatballs you can use instead)
1 large garlic clove, very finely chopped
6 cup(s) low-sodium chicken broth
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
If you like eggplant or if you are trying to like it for its nutritional benefits, this recipe for eggplant parmigiana from our Aunt Maria will help get you hooked and make it easy to add this vegetable to your diet. Warning: This plate is …
Where do we start? There are so many great Italian dessert recipes and finding an authentic dessert recipe has been made much easier with the advent of the internet and people like Mamma sharing her trade secrets with her readers. When adding some of these …
Mamma’s donuts are not a product of her Italian heritage but she has been asked by a number of close friends to reveal her doughnut or donut recipe so here it is. They melt in your mouth and we have never known anyone to eat just one.
Ingredients
3 cups water
2 tbsp yeast
2 cups milk
1 1/2 cups butter
3 cups sugar
2 tbsp salt
8-9 cups flour
Directions
Mix ingredients in bowl and let rise. Knead and let rise for second time on table. Flatten with hands and cut with donut cutter.
Flour pan and place cut donuts onto pan
Deep fry until golden brown
Dip in Icing sugar and let stand. Let dry then move them onto serving tray.
1/2 cup dried tomatoes in oil, drained and finely minced 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds, toasted and chopped 1 tbsp capers, chopped 1/3 cup oil oil 8 slices of baguette, toasted In a bowl, mix the tomatoes, pumpkin seeds, capers and oil Serve at room temperature …
This tasty recipe uses medium sized zucchini’s and is a great way to get your family to eat vegetables. Dad’s garden generates excellent produce and some of his vegetables are a little big for this recipe. If you have ever been in a garden cultivated …
Ingredients
1 package lentils
Directions
Boil lentils until soft. Allow them to remain in pot with water.
Add oil to frying pan, heat and saute chopped Spanish onions, add pepper, salt to taste.
Add contents from frying pan to pot with boiled lentils and cook for additional 30 minutes. Serve and Mangiare!
A winter classic in Mamma’s house is Pasta con molica pane or pasta with bread crumbs. This is a super simple pasta dish which will provide you some variety if you are always serving a typical Pasta with meat sauce dish to your family. It …