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Sardines in Saor

Sardines in saor are a typical Venetian recipe. Saor in Venetian means “flavor” and in fact this very tasty recipe consists of whole sardines marinated in a delicious sweet and sour sauce based on onions flavored with raisins and pine nuts. An ancient traditional dish of the Serenissima, it is traditionally prepared for the Feast of the Redeemer, the third Sunday of July. The strong flavor of the sardines is mitigated and enriched by the sweet and sour effect of the onions and raisins (sweet) with the wine vinegar (sour).

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Beccafico Sardines

Beccafico sardines are a typical Sicilian recipe. Their name derives precisely from the fact that their shape must resemble the beccafico, a small bird that was hunted and consumed by Sicilian nobles. These birds were cooked whole including the entrails and placed next to each other. Popular wisdom in its daily poverty has been able to imitate the shape of these birds by wrapping the sardines in a roll and opening the tail of the sardines like the tail of a bird and filling the inside with pine nuts, breadcrumbs and other things to enrich their internal consistency. Today this dish, which has remained unchanged over time, has had great success and the sardines are prepared both fried and baked.

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Trenette with pesto

Trenette with pesto is a typical Ligurian dish and is very well known on all our tables: it has spread throughout the national territory and also abroad. But not everyone knows that the real dish includes not only the use of Genoese pesto to season pasta, but this is accompanied by boiled potatoes and green beans. In fact, it is only thanks to the addition of these two ingredients that the dish acquires a more complete and distributed taste, without exaggerating with the addition of pesto which can, at times, make the dish less digestible or taste too garlicky.

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