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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 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 cuisine involves many types of ingredient that is commonly used. It ranges from fruits and vegetables, meat, sauces, etc. Somewhere in Northern part of the country, cod or baccala fishes, rice, potatoes, maize or corn, pork, sausages, and some other kind of cheeses are most popular ingredients. Another popular dish is pasta in tomato sauce.

In Northern part, aside from the many types of stuffed pastas, other popular pastas are the polenta and the risotto. Lingurian ingredient is also being used which includes some types of fishes and seafoods, basil, olive oil, and nuts. In one region of the Northern part, some common ingredients are ham, sausages, truffles, different salami sorts, grana, tomatoes, and parmesan cheese.

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.

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.

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.

Other variations of pastas are also made with some kind of grains and other milling methods for making the flour. The pizzoccheri is made from a buckwheat flour. Pastas which are produced from whole wheat became popular because these contain healthy benefits rather than those made from a refined flour.




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