Traditional food of Lombardia: 10 dishes

• Risotto alla milanese · Rice dish · Milan

  Milan's risotto is yellow with saffron.

• Cotoletta alla milanese · Main dish · Milan

  Cotoletta alla milanese is a thick veal chop on the bone, dipped in egg and breadcrumbs and fried in plenty of butter until golden.

• Ossobuco · Main dish · Milan

  Ossobuco means "bone with a hole": cross-cut slices of veal shank braised slowly with white wine, broth and vegetables.

• Pizzoccheri · Noodles & pasta · Valtellina

  Pizzoccheri are short, flat ribbons of pasta made mostly with buckwheat flour, which gives them a grey-brown colour.

• Panettone · Dessert · Milan

  Panettone is a tall, domed sweet bread from Milan, made with a long-rising sourdough and enriched with butter, eggs, raisins and candied citrus peel.

• Cassoeula cassœula · Main dish · Milan and Lombardy

  Cassoeula is Milan's great winter stew of pork and Savoy cabbage.

• Casoncelli · Noodles & pasta · Bergamo and Brescia

  Casoncelli, casonsèi in local dialect, are filled pasta from Bergamo and Brescia, folded into a half-moon and pressed in the middle so they look like small sweets.

• Tortelli di zucca · Noodles & pasta · Mantua

  Tortelli di zucca are the signature pasta of Mantua: squares of fresh egg pasta filled with roasted pumpkin, crushed amaretti biscuits, mostarda of fruit in mustard syrup and Parmigiano, then dressed with melted butter.

• Mostarda di Cremona · Snack · Cremona

  Mostarda di Cremona is whole fruit, cherries, figs, pears, apricots, small oranges and quinces, candied in a thick sugar syrup that has been sharpened with mustard essence.

• Polenta e osei · Dessert · Bergamo

  Polenta e osei is a cake from Bergamo that pretends to be a savoury dish.

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