How to pronounce Gubana

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ɡuˈbaːna/. In plain English letters that is goo-BAH-nah, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Gubana?

Gubana is a dessert of Italy. Where it comes from: Cividale del Friuli. People usually eat it on festive days and at teatime. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and nuts & seeds. It tastes sweet.

Where Gubana comes from

Gubana is one of 141 signature dishes of Italy on this map. See all dishes from Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

• Frico · Main dish · Friuli (Carnia)

  Frico is cheese, usually Montasio, cooked in a pan with potatoes and often onion until it forms a thick, golden cake, crisp outside and soft inside.

• Jota · Soup & stew · Trieste

  Jota is the bean and sauerkraut soup of Trieste and the Karst plateau: borlotti beans, potatoes and sour cabbage cooked with pork rind or smoked meat, garlic and cumin, thick enough to stand a spoon in.

• Cjarsons · Noodles & pasta · Carnia (Friuli)

  Cjarsons are the filled pasta of Carnia, the mountain area of northern Friuli, and they have one of the strangest fillings in Italy.

• Prosciutto di San Daniele · Snack · San Daniele del Friuli

  Prosciutto di San Daniele is a dry-cured ham from the hill town of San Daniele del Friuli.

• Pizza napoletana · Bread & pastry · Naples

  Flatbreads with toppings were sold on the streets of Naples by the 18th century as cheap food for the city's poor, eaten folded and on foot.

• Carbonara · Noodles & pasta · Rome

  Carbonara is spaghetti or rigatoni tossed off the heat with egg yolks, grated pecorino romano, crisp cubes of guanciale (cured pork cheek) and a lot of black pepper, so the egg turns into a silky sauce without scrambling.

Food of Italy

Dishes like Gubana in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Gubana:

• Höşmerim · Dessert · Balıkesir, Türkiye

  Höşmerim is a soft dessert from Balıkesir, in the southern Marmara region, made from fresh unsalted cheese cooked with semolina or flour and sugar, stirred until it turns grainy and golden, and topped with syrup and walnuts or pistachios.

• Kleicha كليجة · Dessert · All Iraq, Iraq

  Kleicha are small cookies of a dough flavoured with cardamom, filled with dates, walnuts or sweet coconut, and baked.

• Kaiserschmarrn · Dessert · Austria

  Kaiserschmarrn, "emperor's mess", is a thick, fluffy pancake torn into pieces in the pan, caramelised with sugar and butter, often with raisins, dusted with icing sugar and served with plum compote or apple sauce.

• Stroopwafel · Dessert · Gouda, Netherlands

  A stroopwafel is two thin, crisp waffles pressed together with a layer of warm caramel syrup, the stroop.