Italian Catering And Ingredients As One Of The Popular Cuisines

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 Italian chefs focus more on the quality of an ingredient rather than relying on the elaboration of preparation. The dishes may vary on different regions. Many dishes in one region have already been made with different variations in many different countries. Wine and cheese, not only in their own country but also for Italian catering Houston are two major parts of these cuisines. And another important variety is their coffee, specifically 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 the Central part, the ingredient includes tomatoes, fish, any kinds of meat, and pecorino cheese. Traditionally, a Tuscany pasta is served with a meat sauce. And lastly, in the Southern part, tomatoes, either fresh or cooked as a tomato sauce, olives, olive oil, peppers, artichokes, garlic, ricotta cheese, oranges, zucchini, eggplants, capers, and some kind of fishes such as anchovies, tuna, or sardines are some of the components in their cuisines.

Italian cuisine is known for its diversity when it comes to using the many variations of pasta. It includes noodles with different lengths, shapes, and width. Its varieties would include penne, fusilli, lasagna, maccheroni, spaghetti, linguine, and some varieties that are filled with ravioli or tortellini. Usually, pastas are topped with a 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.

The durum flour and the durum semolina have yellow tinge color. A pasta is usually cooked in boiling water and it must be cooked not too soft. Outside the country like in Houston, TX, a dry pasta is often made with a different type of flour, but it still can be cooked not too soft.

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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