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Photo: Alessio Sbarbaro User_talk:Yoggysot, CC BY-SA 3.0, croppedFarinata
/fariˈnaːta/fah-ree-NAH-tah
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- When
- Snack
- Taste
- Savory
- Made with
- Beans & tofu
History
Farinata is a thin, flat cake of chickpea flour, water, olive oil and salt, baked in a wide copper pan in a wood oven until the top is crisp and the inside soft. It is the street food of Genoa and the Ligurian coast, sold by the slice in old shops and eaten hot with black pepper. The same dish is socca in Nice. A Genoese legend tells that it was invented after a sea battle in 1284, when chickpea flour and oil spilled into seawater on a ship, and sailors ate the mixture dried in the sun; it is a story, not a record. Ligurian emigrants took it to Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where fainá is eaten on top of pizza.
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