Antipasto

Antipasto (Italian for before the meal, plural antipasti ) is the Italian name for an appetizer. The antipasti of Italian cuisine consist of small dishes as a prelude to a multi-course meals. Typical are air-dried meats such as ham or salami, accompanied by fried, pickled in olive oil vegetables such as eggplant, zucchini, peppers, mushrooms and fresh vegetables or fruit, marinated seafood and spicy occupied, toasted bread slices.

In Italian restaurants, it is customary to present prepared antipasti in a display case, from which the guest can be put together a selection to taste.

List of some antipasti

• Bresaola - dried cured beef, similar to Bündnerfleisch
• Carpaccio - Wafer-thin slices of raw beef with grated Parmesan cheese, olive oil and balsamic vinegar
• Caprese - mozzarella on a tomato with fresh basil
• Mozzarella with sun-dried tomatoes
• Peperonata - fried or cooked pepper strips, marinated with olive oil, lemon and garlic
• Vitello tonnato - cooked and sliced ​​veal with tuna sauce
• Bruschetta - toasted bread with diced tomatoes or olives or liver paste
• Supplì or arancini - fried stuffed rice balls
• Fiori di Zucca or Sciurilli - fried zucchini flowers
• Antipasto all'italiana - cold cuts platter with parma ham, salami, ham, smoked meat or the like
• Prosciutto e melon - Parma ham with melon
• Frutti di mare - seafood, raw and / or cooked
• Baccalà - breaded cod
• Sarde in Saor - Marinated sardines
• Cozze gratinate - Mussels au gratin
• Sauté di vongole veraci - sauté of clams
• Pesce Spada affumicato - smoked swordfish
• Tonno affumicato - smoked tuna
• Cocktail di gamberetti - Shrimp Cocktail
• Tartine or Stuzzichini - appetizers