Traditional food of Genoa: 5 dishes

• Pesto alla genovese · Noodles & pasta · Genoa

  Pesto alla genovese is a cold sauce of Genovese basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil, Parmigiano and pecorino sardo.

• Farinata · Street food · Genoa and Liguria

  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.

• Torta pasqualina · Main dish · Genoa

  Torta pasqualina is Genoa's Easter pie of greens and fresh cheese.

• Cappon magro · Main dish · Genoa

  Cappon magro is a towering Genoese salad of fish and vegetables, built into a pyramid on a base of ship's biscuits rubbed with garlic and soaked in vinegar.

• Focaccia genovese fugassa · Bread & pastry · Genoa

  Genoese focaccia, fugassa in dialect, is a soft flatbread about two centimetres thick, pressed with fingertips to make dimples that are filled with olive oil, salt and water before baking.

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