Top 17 Delicious Italian Food You Have To Taste

I think, Italy is the most exotic country in Europe. Besides it has great history, Italia has also variety of cultures. One of the cultural richness present in their people foods. Italian foods have been famous around the world, so you can easily find them in your country.

Some of them, you may already known, like pizza and spaghetti. But, do you know that there are still many delicious italian foods? The list below will show you the most recommended italian foods to taste.

1. Pizza

Who does not know pizza? This is most popular of italian foods, i think. Everyone know pizza and even often went to pizza hut to eat this. Pizza is a bread, flat, round bread and sprinkled with tomato sauce, cheese and other various toppings, cooked by baking in an oven or furnace. A store that specializes in making and selling pizza called "pizzeria". There are many kinds of pizza around the wolrd, and usually the materials to make that adjusted to the local taste.

2. Spaghetti

Spaghetti is a kind of pasta with a cylindrical, thin and long shapes, like noodle. Italian spaghetti made from special wheat called "semolina". Based on the traditional dose, spaghetti should have a length of 50 cm. But this time is no longer lengths are crucial, even today spaghetti most commonly available in sizes 25-30 cm long. There are various types of spaghetti, one of them is Spaghetti alla Carbonara cooked with a large amount of garlic and olive oil, and served with tomato sauce, meat and other typical Italian sauce.

3. Tiramisu

Tiramisu is a popular desert made from Savoiardi that dipped in coffee, layered with a mixture of egg yolks, egg whites, sugar and mascarpone cheese, and flavored with cocoa powder. Tiramisu has a variety of sizes and flavors. Most of traditional tiramisu layer is cake and cream. Some restaurants make tiramisu in a cup of ice cream that has of some cream layer and a layer of cake.

4. Panino

Panino is a sandwich made from bread which is called "Tramezzino". The examples of bread type used to make Panino is ciabatta, rosetta and baguette. The bread is cut horizontally and filled with delicious ingredients such as bacon, ham, cheese, mortadella, or other food, and sometimes served warm after cooked in super hot grill.

5. Lasagna

Lasagna is one of the classic Italian dish that can reflect the taste of the person who made it. Lasagna made from wheat flour and baked in the oven. Lasagna Recipe has been developed and made with beef, sausage, vegetables, chicken, seafood, ricotta, mozzarella and parmesean cheese.

6. Veal Marsala

Marsala sauce is a famous Italian wine sauce with the mixture of mushrooms and scallions. The sauce is usually cooked with beef or chicken. Famous beef used for cooking with marsala sauce is sirloin meat.

7. Tortelini

Tortellini is ring-shaped pasta and has shape like a navel, so the another name of this food is "Ombelico" which means navel. Tortellini is usually filled with a mixture of grilled meat or cheese. Derived from Emilia district (especially in Bologna and Modena). This dish is usually served in a thick broth. Tortellini is very popular and can be found in many restaurants around the world.

8. Gnocchi

Gnocchi is a type of pasta made from potatoes. Gnocchi are usually treated with a cream sauce and peas. Gnocchi can be served with other ingredients such as chicken, vegetables, cattle and many more according to taste.

9. Rissoto

Risotto can be found in many cities in Italy, but the most popular of rissoto is in Venice. Risotto seafood and mushroom is a specialty of the chef in Venice. Risotto is often cooked to the ongoing season in Italy, for example, in the spring or summer risotto added with various herbs and spring vegetables such as asparagus .

10. Italian Coffee

Italian coffee called caffee in it country. Espresso is a the most famous Italian coffee in the world. Many bars in Italy serving traditional Italian espresso. Fans of milk beverages can order cappuccino and blank coffee fans can order americana coffee. To sit and enjoy a coffee at Italian caffee, usually spend 4-6 € per drink.

11. Ravioli

The ravioli was created in the roman era, but it popular when the return of the explorer Marco Polo from China. Most of ravioli cooked with ricotta and spinach. This food is suitable for fans of vegetables and vegetarian. To be truly satisfied, Europeans generally eat two to three ravioli for a meal.

12. Fettuccine alfredo

One of the most famous Italian sauce is alfredo which is widely used for thick noodle such as Fettuccini. The most famous fettucini is Fettucini Alfredo which is made in the 1920 by Alfredo in Lelio, Rome. The Fettuccine Alfredo original recipe is consists of butter, cream, fresh black pepper and parmesan cheese. This recipe is being developed around the world until now.

13. Carbonara Pasta

Carbonara Pasta known as pasta with thick cream in many countries. This pasta is a combination of eggs, bacon, and white wine mixed with rigatoni or spaghetti noodles. The orginal carbonara pasta is considered more delicious than the american version that has been modified.

14. Primavera pasta

Primavera pasta is one of the most famous vegetarian dish in Italy. "Primavera" is means spring. So this dish is a combination of vegetables and pasta with various sauces so it looks like a bright spring colors.

15. Shrimp fra Diavolo

Spicy red sauce in this food has earned it the title "diavolo" which means "the devil" in Italian. This food is shrimp that cooked with pasta, sauce, pepper and garlic.

16. Tramezzino

Tramezzino is a sandwich that is usually triangular shaped, constructed of two pieces of soft white bread with cutout edges. Tramezzino is a popular and cheap Italian dishes. Available in many Italian bars and restaurants throughout the day. Usually this food also added with pieces of tuna, olives and prosciutto.

17. Linguine alle Vongole

Linguine is a flat-shaped pasta that is similar to Fettuccine. This pasta is wider than spaghetti, but thinner when compared with fettuccine. In Italy, Linguine also called as trenette or bavette. Linguine alle Vongole (Linguine with mussels sauce) is the most famous Linguine. In this dish, clam sauce is mixed with garlic and oil sauce to served with pasta.

That's it. I hope you like this lists. Have other one? just suggest it in the comment!

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