Food-and-wine connoisseurship in Salento

Typical cuisine of Salento.

The tasting of wine becomes the tasting of the territory when it is linked to the knowledge of the old usage and customs concerning the art of vine-growing and the traditional consumption of wine together with the typical dishes that have always gone well with it.

This is a real journey in the world of tastes, heritage of ancient routes and a hint for new experiences.

In this website we are glad to give you the recipes and the description of the best restaurants of our region. And we thank the restaurants who have accepted to share their experience with us by suggesting some recipes that go well with our wines

This month suggestion is:

“Legume Soup with Catalogna chicory, local Pecorino and strips of smoked colt with extra virgin olive oil.

Barley, emmer,
dried white fava beans,
wheat, black chickpeas,
black beans, red and green lentils,
Catalogna chicory,
Pecorino (local sheep’s milk cheese),
 smoked colt,
extra virgin olive oil,
wholemeal grilled bread.

Cook each kind of legumes separately; then mingle them to make a soup. Stew the Catalogna chicory and put it on a plate; place the Pecorino upright, the strips of smoked colt, the slices of grilled bread in order to give the plate a certain movement; sprinkle extra virgin olive oil in the end.
WINE PAIRING: PRIMITIVO SESSANTANNI FEUDI DI SAN MARZANO