Vegetables & Legumes

Recipes with vegetables and legumes from Puglia Italy: fava broad beans, lentils, orzo

Puglia food: lentils with orzo for New Year’s Eve dinner

There is one dish that cannot miss on Italian tables at midnight on December 31st. This is the Lentil soup! Because they resembled coins, in the past they were thought to bring financial prosperity in the year to come. Nowadays, we associate them to general good luck, in any field. [...]

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How to make traditional Italian tomato sauce with fresh tomatoes

  One thing that I love about the Mediterranean Diet food of Puglia is the fact that even though our recipes are very simple to prepare, the resulting dishes are extremely delicious and healthy! Tomato sauce is the recipe that best represents the simplicity of the Mediterranean Diet. We use [...]

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