Stews
Standbys | Other Stews | Tripe, Feet, Etc.
Standbys
Beef a la Mode: Bue alla Moda
Rump
roast stewed with veal shank, wine, and vegetables.
Difficulty:
Easy
Beef Braised in Barolo: Brasato al
Barolo
Beef braised in Barolo. Sounds simple....
Difficulty: Easy
Carbonade
A classic stew of the
Valle D'Aosta, made with beef, herbs and spices.
Difficulty:
Coda alla Vaccinara
The
classic Roman oxtail stew, from my review of David Downie's book on Roman
cooking.
Difficulty: Moderate
Goulash
With polenta it's
truly an inspired combination!
Difficulty: Easy
Marino's Italian Barbecue
A
delightful beef & sausage barbecue done in a pan over the
fire.
Difficulty: Easy
Neapolitan Stewed Beef: Carne al
Ragù
An elegant Neapolitan pot roast that also provides
sauce for pasta..
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ossibuchi all Milanese
A great
dish from the simplest of ingredients.
Difficulty: Moderate
Stewed Ossibuchi: Ossibuchi al Sugo
Simple, but oh so tasty veal shanks in meat sauce (this also yields
excellent pasta sauce)
Difficulty: Moderate
Tripe: Trippa
A classic
Italian dish. Background, preparation, and a basic recipe.
Difficulty:
Moderate
Other Stews
Beef Roll: Salciccione di Bue
A tasty, elegant beef roll stuffed with mushrooms and other delights.
Difficulty: Moderate
Beef Stew Alessandria Style: Stracotto
all'Alessandrino
A tasty stew that gains a slightly wild touch
from mustard and juniper berries.
Difficulty: Easy
Beef Stewed in White Wine: Bue Stufato in Salsa
al Vino Bianco
Classic stewed beef, in a white wine
sauce.
Difficulty: Moderate
Beef Stew with Peppers: Spezzatino con i
Peperoni
A rich, tasty veal stew with peppers and onions that
will be quite nice on polenta.
Difficulty: Easy
Braised Beef Bresciana Style: Braciato Alla
Bresciana
A tasty beef stew that will also yield a sauce for
pasta or rice.
Difficulty: Easy
Braised Beef Marches Style: Brasato alla
Marchigiana
A 17th century recipe from the Marche region, for
beef with spices, braised in white wine.
Difficulty: Easy
Braised Beef with Polenta Gnocchi: Bue Brasato
con Gnocchi di Polenta
Elegant braised beef with polenta as a
side dish.
Difficulty: Moderate
Farsumagru
A rich meat roll
filled with delights, the undisputed King of Sicilian meat cookery.
Difficulty: Moderate
Festive Ragù: Gran Ragù della
Festa
An extraordinarily rich, festive Sicilian stew that also
provides sauce for the pasta. In many occasions it was the reason for
the festivities.
Difficulty: Moderate
Ghisau
A rich, tomatoey
Sardinian beef stew.
Difficulty: Easy
Graziella's String Bean Stew, Lo Stufato Coi
Fagiolini della Graziella
Come warmer weather, this is one of
the finest uses for string beans I have come across.
Difficulty:
Easy
Jailhouse Meat: Carne da Galera
Beef round stewed with herbs and vineagr: A classic dish from the days
before refrigeration, and very tasty now too.
Difficulty: Easy
Marengo Stew: Spezzato Marengo
Marengo stew, a combination of veal and other ingredients that's as inspired as
Napoleon's classic chicken.
Difficulty: Easy
Milanese Stew: Stufato Milanese
A tasty Milanese potroast for a winter meal.
Difficulty: Easy
Peposo
A peppery stew from
Impruneta, which once sparked a general strike.
Difficulty: Easy
Piemontese Stewed Beef: Manzo
Stufato
A rich creamy pot roast.
Difficulty:
Easy
Roast Veal with Milk: Arrosto al
Latte
A rich, mushroomy veal potroast.
Difficulty:
Easy
Roman Stew: Stufato alla Romana
Hearty stewed beef with lots of veggies -- usually celery or cardoons.
Difficulty:
Rump Roast Braised in Santa Maddalena, with
Speck: Speck e Brasato al Santa Maddalena
A tasty beef pot
roast cooked in wine that gains depth from speck.
Difficulty:
Moderate
Rump Roast with Greens: Sottofiletto alle
Verdure
A Piemontese rump roast with an unusual mustardy
sauce.
Difficulty: Easy
Scottiglia
Maremma is a wild
part of Tuscany; a recipe for a stew the charcoal burners made with what they
could catch.
Difficulty: Moderate
Scottiglia Aretina
A variation
from the hills around Arezzo, livened by the addition of lemon and hot pepper.
Difficulty: Moderate
Stuffed Cabbage Leaves:
Rambascìci
Though one might expect richer fare for
Christmas Day, these stuffed cabbage leaves were one of the standard dishes
among the Italians living in Dalmatia, perhaps because they were introduced by
those who fought the Turks in the mountains.
Difficulty:
Intermediate-advanced
Summer Braised Beef: Brasato Estivo
A summer version of Brasato al Barolo, made with lots of
vegetables.
Difficulty:
Taglierini with the Sauce from a Roast: Tajarin
Al Sugo di Arrosto
Tajarin (Piemontese tagliatelle) with the
sauce froma pot roast. Makes for a fine first course and a tasty second course
too.
Difficulty: Moderate
Tocco di Carne
Rich Ligurian
stewed meat in tomato sauce; the meat is a second course, while much of the
sauce goes over the pasta.
Difficulty: Moderate
Tocco di Carne Stufato
Similar
to the above, with the addition of rosemary and other herbs.
Difficulty:
Moderate
Valdostan Fricassee: Fricandò
Valdostano
Aosta's take on the French fricandeau, made with
white wine up in the mountains. Perfect with Polenta.
Difficulty:
Veal in Milk Sauce: Sanato al Latte
Piemontese milk-fed veal in a delicate milk sauce.
Difficulty:
Easy
Veal Provençale: Vitello alla
Provenzale
Delicate veal stew with tomatoes.
Difficulty:
Easy
Veal Stew with Porcini Mushrooms and Finely
Sliced White Truffle: Bocconcini di Vitello Con Funghi Porcini e Lamelle di
Tartufo Bianco
A rich, elegant stew that becomes something
else when white truffles are added. Difficulty:
Moderate
Difficulty: Easy
Tripe, Feet, Etc.
Asti Style Tripe: Trippa
all'Astigiana
A classic, unusual market day dish from
Piemonte.
Difficulty: Moderate
Jellied Tripe
An unusual
summer recipe that will make converts even of tripe haters; from my review of
Fergus Henderson's The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating.
Roman Style Tripe: Trippa alla
Romana
The classic, simple tripe served in the Eternal City.
Difficulty: Moderate
Stewed Cow's Foot: Zampa Burrata
Stewed cow's foot, a historical curiosity but also a tasty recipe.
Difficulty:
Tripe Bound with Egg: Trippa Legata Colle
Uova
A light lemony egg sauce works quite well with tripe.
Difficulty: Moderate
Tripe Olivetana Style: Trippa
all'Olivitana
A Sicilian solution for tripe: stew it, and
then bake it with cheese, eggplant and meat sauce. Fit for a feast!
Difficulty: Moderate
Tripe Savoy Style: Trippa alla
Savoiarda
Tripe stewed with tomatoes and seasoned with spices.
Difficulty: Moderate
Tripe with Beef Trotters: Trippa alla
Corsa
Hearty tripe served with meat sauce.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
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