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What is street food. It is that unexpected aroma of sandwiches, pizzas, piadinas, risottos, fried mixed food that envelops and overwhelms you while walking through the streets of the city.
It is that neurological impulse that suddenly makes you hungry, and you can do nothing but let yourself be guided by that smell, already imagining the magnificent traditional flavor that you can only find in Italian dishes.
All you have to do is immerse yourself in taste and let yourself be seduced by the goodness of these fantastic dishes. Much more than just a passing trend, street food is a true art, all to be known and appreciated, bite by bite.
Often we hear about this type of "on wheels" cuisine, but what is street food?
It arises from the love and passion for food, from the careful search to unite ancient flavors of our Italian culinary tradition with flavors coming from foreign countries. Street food is a new way of conceiving cuisine, a tasty alternative to traditional cuisine and to fast food. The food is prepared inside food trucks, real kitchens on wheels: inside these little laboratories, delicacies are born ready to be tasted.
The origins of street food. The history of this fantastic method of cooking dates back to the times of ancient Greece and ancient Rome: these two precursor peoples revolutionized the way food was served in markets in the square.
At that time, along the streets of the city, it was possible to find stalls rich in foods ready to be enjoyed on the go.
With the passage of time and the first cultural exchanges, street food reached the Middle East and the East, albeit with different dishes, recipes, and preparations.
This novelty soon reached the American coasts, which saw the introduction of food trucks, famous for their hot dog sandwiches. Subsequently, this phenomenon invaded the Anglo-Saxon countries and Northern Europe, reaching Italy and rooting itself in modern culinary culture.
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What does street food mean? This expression refers to street food, even if today its meaning has broadened significantly. It is therefore a true style of cooking that is very particular, practical, economical, and informal. You won’t find restaurants, waiters, tables, or even a menu: all you can expect is a food truck releasing irresistible aromas and you only need to choose what you want to taste. Besides being prepared on the spot, these particular dishes are delicious and rich in traditional flavors, sometimes mixed with foreign recipes.
The art of street food is not only about food and recipes, but also about the food trucks: these are not just simple vans but true works of art on the road. Bees, pineapples, giant sandwiches, wooden barrels, and fruits are just some of the most bizarre shapes given to these wonderful kitchens on wheels. We can also find greener solutions with cargo bikes perfectly equipped to cruise through the streets of our cities and bring typical dishes with irresistible flavors everywhere.
Street food Italy offers many recipes from the Italian culinary tradition, revisited in such a way that they can be easily enjoyed while walking through the streets of the city. The choice is truly endless: hamburgers and fries, fried local fish, tacos, piadinas, fried pizza or slices, or travel sweets like the irresistible chocolate crepes.
Street food Italy offers very tasty and traditional foods like arancini or arancine, rice balls breaded and fried, filled with meat ragù, peas, and cheese.
The street food from Campania presents a delicious pizza with stretched cheese and tasty babà, mushroom-shaped sweets flavored with rum. Rome offers the fantastic fried cod, a regional specialty served with puntarelle salad, while in Tuscany we can taste a traditional cookie made with chestnut flour, a cake originating from Arezzo.
Emilia-Romagna can only offer the majestic fried gnocco filled with cured meats and typical cheeses, a real delight to enjoy while walking.
The farinata, on the other hand, is the street food proposed by Liguria: it is a light, flat savory cake made from chickpea flour, water, salt, and oil.
Another irresistible product of street food Italy is the panella, a crispy chickpea fritter typical of Sicily served in a bun with sesame seeds. But this fantastic region also offers the succulent sandwich with meusa or spleen seasoned with lemon juice and cheese: the perfect sandwich to enjoy in good company!
Having guests for dinner is never easy because inventing a special menu requires time and creativity. Often, one tends to cook very elaborate and sophisticated dishes to make a good impression, but the result is not always the desired one. How to cook delicious dishes in no time? If you want to surprise your guests with simplicity and goodness, the street food recipes are the perfect solution for you.
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These delicious recipes will surely conquer your guests, allowing you to create an alternative and informal dinner. Let the panelle drive your guests crazy or win them over with fantastic Romagna-style piadine stuffed with arugula, squacquerone, and speck: a delicacy!
The crocchette di patate, also known as panzarotti, are a typical Neapolitan recipe that will seduce your friends' palates.
Classic but timeless will always be the hamburger in all its variations: with beef, fish, vegetarian patties, crispy vegetables, salad, bacon.
In short, you can fill it with your favorite ingredients and garnish it with the simplest sauces up to the most particular ones like truffle creams. Try to make it even more unique by creating charcoal black buns or spirulina green buns and you will surprise your guests!
Finally, to conclude your dinner in the best way, we recommend making the fantastic and delicious graffe, a typical Neapolitan dessert in the shape of a donut, sprinkled with sugar. Another dessert that will conquer young and old alike is always the crepe: chocolate cream, pistachio cream, jam, coconut flakes, walnut granules are just some of the possible fillings, but all very tasty.
As you can see, street food is a true art that wanders from city to city, bringing with it the best Italian products.
On Spaghetti & Mandolino, you will find all the ingredients necessary to create these delicious dishes, starting from cured meats to savory creams. Choose your favorite recipe and get cooking!
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