Mantova Mantua Typical FOOD Italian RECIPE MANTUAN CUISINE pumpkin ravioli sbrisolona cake rice (VIDEO)

Various Mantuan recipes

Summary

The Mantuan gastronomic tradition arises from the promotion of local products and from the inventiveness of folk and court recipes, more and more delicious as years went by.

Among the first courses are famous pumpkin tortelli; agnolini soup (a traditional Christmas Eve dish); ”capunsèi” (made of eggs and breadcrumbs) or patatoes gnocchi; and also ”bigoi” (country spaghetti, made of pressed soft wheat and eggs, seasoned with anchovies). Then the risottos: the best known is ”alla pilota” cooked in the manner of rice-husking workers (boiled in water and seasoned with salami and Parmesan cheese); or “col puntel”, with pork chop.

The second courses: pike in its sauce served with polenta, ditch prawns, eel, donkey stew and quality sausages as Mantua salami or typical morainic hills prosciutto.

Last but not least, plain and substantial sweets: sweet polenta ”fiapon“; “sugol “; white flour and must pudding; “sbrisolona“.

Typical Mantuan dishes match perfectly with local wines, among them the well-known DOC Garda Colli Mantuani and Lambrusco Mantuano DOC. The Mantuan winegrowing boast a centuries old history.