An introduction to Neapolitan cuisine.

Salato (savory):

• pizza – the world famous dish origins from Naples,
• spaghetti alla puttanesca – spaghetti  with tomato sauce, black olives, and capers,
• pasta with Neapolitan ragù – sauce with made of soffritto, meat, tomato sauce,
• Neapolitan sauce / Napoli sauce / Napoletana sauce – tomato-based sauce,
• polpi alla luciana – octopus cooked with chili pepper and tomatoes,
• alici dorate e fritte – deep-fried boneless anchovies,
• parmigiana di melanzane – eggplant pie with tomato sauce and fiordilatte,
• street food – mostly fied food sold in friggitoria (“fryer”)

• • pizza fritta – fried pizza, one of the oldest forms of pizza,
  • crocchè – deep fried stuffed potato balls
  • arancini – deep-fried ball of rice

Dolce (sweet):

• babà – small yeast cake saturated in rum syrup, it can be filled with whipped cream,
• pastiera Napoletana – tart made with cooked wheat, eggs, ricotta cheese,  orange flower water, typical for Easter,
• milglaccio – semolina, lemon ricotta cake / pudding,
• sfogliatella – “lobster tail” cake,
• zeppole / frittelle – deep-fried dough balls,
• gelato – frozen dessert.

Cornicello
Altough red chili pepper is not the most common ingredient in Neapolitan cuisine (green peppers – peperoncini verdi – are usually fried), red cornicello (“little horn”) is trditional talisman protecting against the evil eye.

Market at Vomero

Market at Vomero

Pasta shop in Naples

Pizza Margherita

Pizza fritta

Pizza fritta

Babà

Babà

Babà Vesiuvio

Milglaccio

Cornicello

Cornicello

Naples (Napoli), Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy

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Ξ Naples webpage (Italian)

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See also:

Naples

Pizza Napoletana

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