Cuisine of Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Cuisine of Friuli-Venezia Giulia

The art of magic cooking of culinary delights in the Italian tourist region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia is not only a variety of dishes and food, but, moreover, the local products smell like the breath of ancient and modern culture. Eat surprisingly tasty food and have an idea from what culture the dish derive from is a real magic, which offered by the gourmet cuisine of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia resort region within its capabilities.

Charming Italian tourist region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia combines three basic types of cuisine, but ensures that each of them retains its truly unique character. And in this way in the resort region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, at the junction of cultures, you can enjoy well-known Central European and Slavic elaborate cuisine and authentic Italian cuisine, typical of this age-old Italian region. In this case, for example, between Trieste and Horitia you can find places where are mixed cuisines of the Habsburgs and the Slavs.

Many dishes in the Italian tourist region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia were created from the products that people could get from the land. That is why the regional cuisine is based mostly on herbs, fruits and mushrooms, typical Friulian cuisine can be called a decisive and strong, but it is always natural. The coastal area, on contrary, is full of bars and restaurants - from the most simple to the gourmet restaurants, where guests are served dishes provided by the sea. Fish and oyster dishes in thousands of variations guarantee the unsurpassed freshness.

Thanks to the nine districts in the wine regions, where are produces more than 100 million bottles of wine per year with world-renowned labels and two types of elite wines - Ramandolo and Picolit are the culmination point in addition to a gourmet meal.

Italian tourist region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia assures its guests to make a culinary journey through the thousands of little secrets, as well as terrific, so-called ham and wine routes, which lead to the town of San Daniele.

Perhaps, in the Italian resort region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia you will decide to try in Trieste vegetable soup with beans, potatoes and sauerkraut, or apple strudel, which is generally considered as a treat from Vienna, shrimps “a la Busara”, or dried cod, which is prepared in Trieste by own its recipe. In Horitia we recommend you plum dumplings. People here also eat "Imperial" meat (a slice of smoked pork with horseradish and sauerkraut). In the town of Carnia there are such dishes as sweet and at the same time salty stuffed dumplings, a delicacy of chopped vegetables and the local variety of cheese that reached certain maturity.