Traditional food of Naples: 8 dishes

• 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.

• Sfogliatella · Dessert · Naples

  A sfogliatella is a shell-shaped pastry of many thin, crisp layers, filled with semolina, ricotta and candied orange peel, flavoured with cinnamon and vanilla.

• Spaghetti alle vongole · Noodles & pasta · Naples

  Spaghetti alle vongole is spaghetti cooked with fresh clams, olive oil, garlic, parsley and sometimes chilli and white wine.

• Pastiera · Dessert · Naples

  Pastiera is a Neapolitan Easter tart of shortcrust pastry filled with wheat grains cooked in milk, ricotta, eggs, candied fruit and orange-flower water, topped with a lattice of pastry strips.

• Babà · Dessert · Naples

  Babà is a small yeast cake soaked in rum syrup, served in Naples' pastry shops and cafés.

• Genovese napoletana genovese · Noodles & pasta · Naples

  Genovese is a Neapolitan pasta sauce, not from Genoa: a huge quantity of onions and a piece of beef cooked together very slowly for hours until the onions melt into a sweet, golden cream.

• Spaghetti alla puttanesca · Noodles & pasta · Naples and Ischia

  Spaghetti alla puttanesca are made with a quick sauce of tomatoes, black olives, capers and garlic, and in many versions anchovies and chilli.

• Pizza fritta · Street food · Naples

  Pizza fritta is pizza dough folded around a filling, often ricotta, cicoli pork crackling, provola cheese and pepper, and deep fried until golden.

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