What are the main courses of Italian cuisine?!
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Answers: I already know about the antipasto course, but I was wondering if anyone knows a lot about the First (Primi) Course, the Second Course, or Dolce (Dessert). Any important information about them would be great, but I don't need recipes.
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Being italian, I think the best way for me to answer it is if you're talking authentic italian, not like in a restaurant. Usually at home we only have formal courses during holidays. You're right in the names, but sometimes things go in between. To start, usually we have antipasta, which is a combo of cheese, rolled meat, anchovi's, lettuce, roasted peppers, olives, carrot sticks, and celery sticks, all dressed w/ italian dressing. Then we usually have a small plate of pasta (sometimes 2 stuffed shells even) or a soup. To cut the taste between the pasta and the next course usually we have a tiny bowl of sherbert (rainbow), haha. After that we typically have a dish of meat, which is usually a roast pork or roast beef w/ gravy...yes....brown gravy. That's all followed by desert, which italians always have way too much of to choose from. In my family of 9, we probably have about 4 or 5 deserts to choose from.
Hope that helps a little.
any kind of spaghetti or pizza and dessert panna cotta
spaghetti, ravioli, any authentic thin pizza, countless different pastas!
I found this by searching on yahoo....web link provided
Antipasto appetizer)
Primo piatto (first course): pasta, riso (rice), zuppa/minestrone (soup).
Secondo piatto (second course): carne (meat) and pesce (fish).
Contorno (side dish): insalata (salad), patate fritte (French fries), contorni misti (mixed vegetables), etc.
Frutta (fruit)
Dolce (dessert)
Vino (wine
starter (veggie/cheese) - pasta (w/ or w/o cheese) - meat/fish - salad - dessert