Tuscan farmhouse with typical cuisine

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A holiday in Tuscany is not a real one without a taste of the typical dishes, rich in taste and tradition, based on recipes handed down for generations and prepared with a few simple ingredients that preserve the authenticity and taste of the past. In a farmhouse in Tuscany with typical cuisine you can taste regional and local dishes, prepared using fresh, seasonal and high quality products, from the farm itself or from companies in the area.

Tuscan Farmhouse with typical cuisine: typical recipes

The common basis for many recipes of Tuscanyis the Tuscan bread, made without salt to accompany very tasty food and used to prepare soups, simple and nutritious dishes, to which add vegetables, legumes and aromas . Pappa al pomodoro , panzanella , ribollita , black cabbage soup and cacciucco are the most famous soups. In the philosophy of "do not throw anything away", stale bread is also used toasted to prepare croutons, seasoned mainly with meat and mushroom sauces and bruschetta, seasoned with garlic and extra virgin olive oil.

Among the Tuscan dishes to try you can not miss those made with meat. The most famous is certainly the Florentine steak, but white meat, game and pork are also very common, used to prepare rosticciana , or pork ribs cooked on the grill, sausages and cold cuts, like the delicious finocchiona and the famous lardo di Colonnata , salami matured in Carrara marble basins. Other specialties of meat typical, but more particular, are the trippa and lampredotto, that is the abomasum, one of the four stomachs of the cattle, usually eaten in the sandwich together with the green sauce, widespread especially in the area of Florence , where there are still kiosks of lampredottai. The meat is also used to accompany pasta dishes: pappardelle with wild boar , white ragout of Cinta Senese or hare sauce .

All these flavors will be enhanced if accompanied by numerous and excellent local wines: Chianti, Morellino di Scansano, Brunello di Montalcino, Bolgheri Sassicaia, Vernaccia di San Gimignano. 

Tuscan Farmhouse with typical cuisine: typical sweets

As for desserts, even these made with simple and energetic ingredients, such as dried fruit, chestnuts and honey, are typical of Siena, such as cantuccini, panforte, ricciarelli, castagnaccio, necci Garfagnana and Torta co' bischeri, originally from Pisa . Tuscan desserts are very well combined with vinsanto , a sweet wine produced with Trebbiano, Malvasia or Sangiovese grapes.

A holiday in Farmhouse in Tuscany with typical cuisine will delight you with tasty traditional recipes or revisited thanks to the creativity of the owners and chefs, you can buy typical products and learn recipes with cooking classes organized by the structure. Choose from among our Farmhouse with restaurant those that offer typical Tuscan cuisine .