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Umbria is famous for its genuine,
tasty and simple foods. Its main products are cured meats,
cheeses, dairy products, spelt (a grain that was the food
of the Roman army), lentils, mushrooms and truffles.
The most well known specialities that one can taste
in the numerous restaurants of Todi are:
» ham and mountain sausages
» cheeses (cow and sheep milk) sweet and peppered
» white and black truffles (the best season is winter)
used to season many dishes fresh egg
Pasta
» strangozzi and umbricelli (home made pasta using only
flour and water)
» extra virgin olive oil considered to the best in the
world
» pasta and beans with pork skin
» lentil soup
» "scafata" with broad beans parsley pesto,
garlic, chard and tomatoes
porcini mushrooms cooked in various ways, roasted, chopped
in soup or pasta sauces
Meats
» cooked on the spit or grill (chicken, pigeon, rabbit,
lamb, pork with garlic pesto, rosemary, sage, bay and pepper)
» cuts of beef guinea fowl on the spit wrapped in slices
of ham wild pigeons cooked with onions, tomatoes, lemons,
ham and cinnamon
Fish
» carp from Lake Trasimeno with pork meat, baked or
on the spit, eels,
» fillets of perch, oven-baked tench with wild fennel,
tagliolini in pike broth.
Desserts
» "pignoccata", a pinenut biscuit of Perugia, nougat
with almonds, fried rice balls with cinnamon
» "ciaramicola" covered with iceing.
Recommended wines of the area are:
» Red Sagrantino
» Red and white Montefalco
» White Colli del Trasimento
» Red and white Torgiano
The most well known specialities that one can taste in the
numerous restaurants of Todi are: ham and mountain sausages
cheeses (cow and sheep milk) sweet and peppered white and
black truffles (the best season is winter) used to season
many dishes fresh egg pasta strangozzi and umbricelli (home
made pasta using only flour and water) extra virgin olive
oil considered to the best in the world
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