{"id":7823,"date":"2021-02-06T19:48:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/uncategorized\/typical-apulian-cuisine-what-to-eat-in-puglia\/"},"modified":"2023-10-22T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T09:29:26","slug":"typical-apulian-cuisine-what-to-eat-in-puglia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/news\/typical-apulian-cuisine-what-to-eat-in-puglia\/","title":{"rendered":"Typical Apulian Cuisine, What to Eat in Puglia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When talking about <b>Puglia<\/b> from a culinary perspective, the <strong>typical Apulian products<\/strong> are the first that come to mind, and we almost always talk about orecchiette, friselle, and taralli.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same when going to Calabria or Sicily; we always think of the <strong>typical Calabrian products<\/strong>, so we always think of <strong>tasting local specialties<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, these foods are undoubtedly inseparable icons of the <strong>typical Apulian cuisine<\/strong>. <strong>What to eat in Puglia<\/strong>, we will suggest shortly, are elements that have allowed our region to be known and appreciated even beyond its borders.<\/p>\n<p>But there is much more to discover and love about this land, a gastronomic tradition that is the envy of all other regions of <strong>Italian cuisine<\/strong>. Also, because, as we know, <strong>Puglia is long<\/strong> and varied from every point of view.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Typical Apulian cuisine, what to eat in Puglia then<\/strong>? The <strong>traditional Apulian dishes<\/strong> use both land and sea products, and this is what makes it unique and complete. Here we give you an idea of what Apulian recipes are, province by province.<\/p>\n<p>Some dishes are very typical of each other; even some areas are not mentioned, they are part of the area, dishes that satisfy every type of palate, even for those following a <strong>vegan and vegetarian diet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Typical Cuisine of Foggia<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Foggia and its province produce Muschiska<\/strong>, a dried meat of sheep, goat, or veal. The best-known cheese in the area is <strong>caciocavallo<\/strong>, but also giuncata and pecorino.<br \/>\nBread and pasta are made with less refined flour, and therefore they take on a rather dark color.<br \/>\nAmong the <strong>typical dishes of Foggia<\/strong> and <strong>Apulian cuisine<\/strong>, there are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>lagane with legumes<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li><strong>ravioli<\/strong> with ricotta,<\/li>\n<li><strong>troccoli (long \u201csquare\u201d pasta)<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>the <strong>grain of the dead<\/strong> (typical recipe for the commemoration of the day of the dead)<\/li>\n<li><strong>cornmeal pizza<\/strong>, these components make up most of the <strong>recipes of Gargano<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among the <strong>typical sweets of Foggia<\/strong>, there are cartellate, fried sweet covered with apples, and all almond paste sweets, calzoncelli, and atterrate almonds.<\/p>\n<h2>Typical Bari Cuisine<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>cuisine of Bari<\/strong> is also known for <strong>Cavatelli<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/typical-apulian-pasta\/orecchiette-fior-di-grano-from-apulia-region-of-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orecchiette<\/a> (those with <a title=\"Turnip tops Apulian style: the condiment\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/bread-toppings\/turnip-tops-in-extra-virgin-olive-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">turnip tops<\/a> in particular)<\/strong>, but also for Maltagliate, strascinati, and tripoline.<br \/>\nRegarding cheese, typical are the <strong>Burrata<\/strong>, the <strong>Pallone di Gravina<\/strong>, and the <strong>Canestrato Pugliese<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Friselle and taralli also dominate in Bari, but there are also special products like <strong>Sgagliozze<\/strong>, fried pieces of polenta.<\/p>\n<p>The best-known sweets are sasanelli, bocconotto, scarcella, and zeppola.<\/p>\n<h2>Typical Salentine Cuisine<\/h2>\n<p>Salento also has a wholly peculiar culinary tradition. In spring and summer, the dishes are mainly based on <strong><a title=\"Vegetables season by season\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/vegetables-and-greens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vegetables<\/a><\/strong> and fish, while in the winter season, homemade pasta and legumes are at the center of <strong>Salento recipes<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIt is a cuisine particularly poor in the ingredients used, such as less refined flour or barley, but they give life to absolutely unique dishes.<\/p>\n<p>Among these <strong>ciceri e tria (fried pasta and chickpeas)<\/strong>, horse meat pieces in sauce, fava bean puree and chicory, orecchiette and cavatelli with strong ricotta, twisted sagne, split chicories, split tomatoes, drowned turnips, tomato friselle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/bread-toppings\/paparina-with-celline-olives-in-extra-virgin-olive-oil\/\"><strong>paparina with olives<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/products-in-oil\/lampascioni-onions-in-oil\/\">lampascioni<\/a> (wild onions)<\/strong>, pettole (fried batter dumplings).<\/p>\n<p>Then again, the moniceddhi (snails), <strong>the scapece (fried fish in vinegar)<\/strong>, the octopus in a pot, mussels rice and potatoes, the turcineddhi (rolls of offal), the blood sausage, the potato pie, the <strong>Lecce rustic<\/strong> with b\u00e9chamel, the fried calzone, the puccia with black olives, friselle, and taralli of all kinds.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding sweets, in Salento, almond paste reigns, which takes different forms depending on the time of year.<\/p>\n<p>Also typical is quince jelly, as well as grape jam, purcedduzzi (small fried dough balls turned in honey), mustazzoli (almond biscuits, cocoa, and other flavors).<\/p>\n<p>Then again, the pasticciotto (shortcrust pastry and custard) and the fruttone, a variant filled with jam and almond paste, the cupeta, the layered hazelnut, chocolate or pistachio ice cream, and the pittedde (biscuits with quince and grape jam).<\/p>\n<p>Sheep&#8217;s ricotta, giuncata, stracciatella, strong ricotta, pecorino, and cacioricotta are the most known and appreciated Salentine cheeses. Salento is also a land of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/olives\/\"><strong>olives<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Being the olive tree the most widespread tree throughout the territory, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/extra-virgin-olive-oil\/\">Salentine oil<\/a><\/strong> is the basis of the extraordinariness of all the above dishes, and a precious ally for the health and longevity of the Salentine people.<\/p>\n<p>Further insights into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/news\/typical-salento-cuisine-10-traditional-salento-dishes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>typical Salentine cuisine<\/strong><\/a> can be found here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puglia is one of the longest regions of Italy, discover how to eat when you are in one of the Apulian town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mbp_gutenberg_autopost":false,"_pgmb_is_evergreen":true,"_pgmb_ap_template_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orodelsalento.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}