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What is the Italian diet like?

Italian food characteristics: strong flavor and rotten, known as the original flavor, cooking, to stir-fry, fry, deep fry, stew and other methods known, and like to use pasta, rice as a dish, but not as the main food. Italian eating habits are generally in six or seven mature eat, which is not found in other countries.

Flavor preferences: like to eat roast leg of lamb, steak, etc. and the flavor of the dish. All kinds of noodles, fried rice, ravioli, dumplings, pasta also love to eat.

Italian food as its culture: noble, elegant, unique flavor. Exquisite and delicious pasta, cheese, ham and wine have become a paradise for gourmets from all over the world.

The country's calling card: Italian pasta

Italian pasta, also known as spaghetti, is the most accessible of the Western varieties to the Chinese.

The pasta is yellow in color, resistant to cooking and has a good taste. In addition, the sauce for pasta is also more important. Generally, pasta sauces are categorized into red sauce (Tomato Sauce), green sauce (Pesto Sauce), white sauce (Cream Sauce) and black sauce (Squid-Ink Sauce). Red Sauce is a tomato-based sauce, which is by far the most common; Cream Sauce is made of basil, pine nuts, olive oil, etc., and has a special and rich flavor; White Sauce is made of unsalted cream and is mainly used for baked pasta, lasagna and seafood pasta; and Squid-Ink Sauce is made of squid ink, which is used for seafood pasta, such as cuttlefish.

The flour used for pasta is different from the flour we use in China, which is a kind of "hard durum wheat", so it can be cooked for a long time without getting mushy, which is the biggest difference. Then it is also different shapes, in addition to the ordinary straight body flour and screw-type, curved tube type, butterfly type, shell type of hundreds of kinds.