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Monday 10 October 2016

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.

Most of the Italian chefs are focusing more on the ingredient quality rather than on elaborating the preparation. One dish varies on many regions. One dish of a region may already have many variations in other places and countries. Cheese and wine are the two major components in these cuisines, not only in one country but also for the Italian catering Houston and as well other countries. Coffee is another popular variety, especially the espresso.

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 North part, some pastas such as the risotto and the polenta and also the known kinds such as stuffed pastas are popular as well. A lingurian ingredient like the olive oils, nuts, some kind of fish and seafood, and basil are used also. Another part of country somewhere in North are using common ingredients such as tomatoes, different salami sorts, sausages, parmesan cheese, grana, truffles, and ham.

In most Central parts, the ingredient used includes pecorino cheese, fish, any variations of meat, and tomatoes. Typically, Tuscany pastas are served with a meat sauce topping. Lastly, for the Southern parts, people includes eggplants, oranges, garlic, peppers, olives, capers, zucchini, ricotta cheese, artichokes, olive oil, fresh tomato or tomato as sauce, and variations of fishes like tuna, sardines, and anchovies as components for the 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.

There are two categories for pastas, it can either be dried or fresh. A dried pasta is made without any eggs. Usually, this is produced from a durum wheat flour or a durum wheat semolina and this can be stored up to 2 years, while a fresh pasta can be kept for only a few days inside a fridge.

Durum flours and durum semolina have colors of yellow tinge. The pasta can be cooked in a boiling water and it must not be too soft. In other countries like Houston, TX, the dry pasta is produced with different types of flours.

Some variations of the pastas are made from kinds of grain and milling methods when making flours. Pizzoccheri is made of buckwheat flours. Pastas that are produced from a whole wheat are popular for its healthy benefits than those produced from refined flour.




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