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Traditional Dishes from Molise


Abbuoti or torcinelli involtini: (envelopes) of lamb intestines filled with chopped liver, sweetbreads, hardboiled egg and baked.

Baccalá alla cantalupese: salt cod cooked with peppers, capers, black olives, grapes, garlic.

Calcioni di ricotta rustici: rounds of pasta dough filled with ricotta, provolone and prosciutto fried in olive oil, often part of a fritto misto.

Lepre a ciffe e ciaffe: hare cooked in a marinade of vinegar and wine with plenty of herbs.

Panettoncino di mais: spongy corn-flour cake with chocolate.

Pezzata: ewe stewed with tomato, onion, rosemary and hot peppers.

Picellati: pastries filled with honey, nuts and grapes.

Pizza con le foglie: corn flour flatbread baked with wild greens; pizza e minestra is a soup of pork broth and field greens with the pizza crumbled into it.

Polenta maritata: slices of cornmeal fried in oil with garlic, layered with a filling of red beans and peperoncini and baked in the oven, a specialty of Isernia.

Zuppa di ortiche: soup of early spring nettle sprouts cooked with tomato and bacon.

     Regional
     Specialites:

     Wines
     Biferno DOC
     Molise DOC
     Pentro di Isernia or Pentro DOC

     Olive Oils
     Molise DOP

     Fresh & Cured Meats
     Salamini italiani alla cacciatora DOP
     Vitellone Bianco dell'Appennino Centrale IGP

     Cheeses
     Caciocavallo Silano DOP

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