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The Popularity Of Italian Catering And Its Ingredients

By Timothy Kelly


The Italian cuisine has been developed ever since in the past centuries. The development has occurred when some ingredients like tomatoes, potatoes, maize, and bell peppers have been discovered. These ingredients now became the central part of cuisines. Italian cuisines are known for its diversity, its taste, and probably, considered as the most popular cuisine in the whole world. These are also being characterized because if its simplicity since most of the dishes are made only with 4 to 8 ingredients.

Italian chefs prefer on focusing the quality of ingredient than the elaboration of its preparation. One specific dish may vary from different regions because this one dish can have many different variations when it comes to different regions, state, or countries. The cheese and the wine are the major components for these cuisines, and these are not only used in the country but also in Italian catering Houston. The espresso type of coffee is one popular variety as well.

This type of cuisine has many ingredient types involved which are being used. It includes fruit, vegetables, sauces, meat, etc. Somewhere in the Northern part in the country, baccala or cod fishes, corn or maize, sausages, potatoes, pork, and other type of cheeses are very popular ingredients. Pasta with tomato sauce is another kind of popular dish.

In the Northern part, other kind of pastas like polenta and risotto and as well as the known kinds of stuffed pastas are also popular. Lingurian ingredients such as basil, types of seafoods and fishes, nuts, and olive oil are being used as well. There is one part in North where in people are using the usual ingredient like ham, truffles, grana, parmesan cheese, sausages, different salami sorts, and tomatoes.

In the Central part, the ingredient includes tomatoes, fish, any kinds of meat, and pecorino cheese. Traditionally, a Tuscany pasta is served with a meat sauce. And lastly, in the Southern part, tomatoes, either fresh or cooked as a tomato sauce, olives, olive oil, peppers, artichokes, garlic, ricotta cheese, oranges, zucchini, eggplants, capers, and some kind of fishes such as anchovies, tuna, or sardines are some of the components in their cuisines.

The Italian cuisine can be best known as diverse when it comes to pasta variations. This would include different width, shape, and length of noodles. Other varieties are linguine, spaghetti, maccheroni, lasagna, fusilli, penne, and other varieties which are filled with ravioli or with tortellini. Pastas are usually topped with sauce.

The two categories for the pastas are either fresh or dried. The dried pasta often is made without eggs. Most often, it is produced from durum wheat flours or durum wheat semolina, and this may be stored in a fridge up to two years. The fresh pasta may only be kept for a few days.

Durum semolina and flour have a yellow tinge in color. Pasta must be cooked in water which is boiling and should be cooked not very soft. Some countries such as Houston, TX produce dry pasta in different variations of flour.

Other variations of pastas are also made with some kind of grains and other milling methods for making the flour. The pizzoccheri is made from a buckwheat flour. Pastas which are produced from whole wheat became popular because these contain healthy benefits rather than those made from a refined flour.




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