Italian Carnival Food
Carnival is a festival that is celebrated in countries with Catholic traditions.
The festivities often take place in public parades where playful and imaginative elements dominate; in particular, the distinctive and characteristic element of the carnival is the use of masking.
It is celebrated 40 days before Easter ( the tuesday and the thursday.
As italian tradition, next to a festivity there is alway a traditional food. Panettone for Christmas, Chocolate eggs for Easter and the Lentils for new years eve, here you can find out what our granma cooks for Carnival.
They are considered pretty much the basic of this week.
Castagnole and Frappe /Chiacchiere are the most famous and easy to do. In Italy we eat these only in this special time of the year.
Is possible find under different shape or modified recipe but basically this is it.
Zeppole di San Giuseppe.
Is a deep-fried dough ball topped with icing sugar, and may be filled with custard or chocolate.
Arancini di Carnevale
Made just with flour, egg, sugat and butter this is my favourite sweet thanks to the orange or lemon zest added to the filling. Is justamazing !
Alchermos Ravioli:
Do you know ravioli pasta? This look so alike.
But is not pasta and filled with ricotta, chocolate drops and Alchermos (a liquor used only in patissery).
As main we can find :
Calzone with Ricotta cheese and Sausage
Migliaccio
is a kind of polenta cooked in the oven or simply fried and is the main dish of the Shrove Tuesday (Carnival).
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