25 traditional Easter appetizers

The Italian gastronomic heritage It is a real treasure chest of knowledge and flavors. The Easter appetizers I am an example. Each holiday is a good reason to open it and see what surprises can reserve: Easter is also an excellent opportunity, but even before thinking about the main courses, better to dwell on Traditional Easter appetizers.
Easter appetizers
Hard -boiled eggs and salads to start
In Piedmont Easter lunch opens with the Eggs to Bela Rosinso call because, it is said, the dish was conceived by Vercellana roseGorgeous lover of King Vittorio Emanuele II. The great classic tonted veal and not even the Russian salad, of course. Another typical appetizer made with hard -boiled eggs, whose composition varies according to the availability of the ingredients, is thePasqualina salad. In Veneto, for example, it is prepared with the asparagusvery widespread in this territory.
The inevitable savory and rustic cakes
THE savory pies I am a classic among Easter appetizers. There Easter caketypical of Liguria, it is perhaps the most famous, but you must not forget the cheese pizza Umbrian and the growth Marchigiana. Tradition has it that, in addition to as appetizers, these focaccia are also served for breakfastTogether with the coral salami, very widespread between Lazio and Umbria. Another rustic cake, typical of the Easter period, is the Neapolitan tortano not to be confused with the Casatiello. The bases of the dough are the same but, while in the first the hard -boiled eggs are in the filling cut into slices, in the second they are placed whole on the surface of the pasta. In Rome the appetizer can only be based on artichokes, to judia or to the RomanBoth traditional preparations of the capital.
Finally, the Benedetto Barese
The journey through the traditional Easter appetizers ends with the Benedetto Barese (U blessed in local dialect), so called for the blessing rite that the head of the family used to give to relatives gathered around the laid table, using an olive twig. The ingredients are: hard eggs, ricotta, orange, suppressed, rocket or rich salad, olive And Taralli. It can be prepared for single portions or on a single large tray. The oranges must be sliced with the peel. The slices must be arranged along the edge of the plate and on each of it a slice of suppressed must be put. The rocket and ricotta go to the center of the tray. The composition is completed with hard -boiled eggs, taralli and olives.