Italian Food Recipes

There are many Italian Christmas Menu that you can realize in order to eat something delicious during the Christmas feast and so today I decide to suggest you a menu constituted by typical recipe of Mantua. Pumpkin is the Italian traditional ingredient always present in the cuisine of Mantua and with it, as you have already seen in my previous recipe you can prepare any types of tasteful dishes. Here I decide to combine an appetizer and a first course pumpkin-based with a meat second course and a cake that is one of the most typical desserts of Mantua. In particular, the appetizer, that is easy and fast to prepare, is made of slices of fried pumpkin seasoned with rosemary;

Appetizers
Fried Pumpkin

the first course is constituted of the traditionally Tortelli of Pumpkin stuffed with pumpkin, macaroons and mustard of Mantua: this Italian dish is the traditional first course that is prepared in the most family of Mantua for the Christmas Eve because according to the tradition the dinner of Christmas Eve it is usually to abstain from meat.

Primo
Tortelli of Pumpkin


Instead as second course I decide to show you a meat based dish that can be prepared for the Christmas lunch: it is Brasato of veal meat more laborious but easy to prepare

Secondo
Brasato


and to conclude the excellent dessert typical of Mantua called Sbrisolona and made with yellow flour and walnuts.

Dessert
Sbrisolona

If you prepare these delicious recipes you certainly will obtain an excellent result. MERRY CHRISTMAS!