List Of Different Types Of Italian Breads

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Did you know that bread is one of the most basic, staple parts of Italian diet and is something that is taken very seriously by the folk? Ancient Romans were one of the first in the world to produce flour to make bread out of and as studies suggest, even opened up a baking school way back in 1 AD! In the same spirit, Wisk offers professional cake making course in Mumbai and you can click here to know more about them.
Each and every part of Italy has its own special variety of bread, depending on the tradition and customs attached to how the bread and flour is grown and made in the respective parts of the country. Here is a list of most of the types of Italian Bread:
1. Cecina/ Farinata
The Cecina batter is made from a mixture of water, olive oil, and chickpea flour. Most of the times sea salt, black pepper, and rosemary are often used to season each thin, crisp pancake. The resulting look is that of a pizza like flat bread.
2. Ciabatta
Wheat flour and yeast are the typical ingredients used to make this white ...
... Italian bread, lending themselves to its soft, light and porous texture with a crispy crust. This type of bread looks long, broad and flat, with a slight collapse in the center. They are ideal to be used in sandwiches.
3. Colomba Pasquale
This bread is traditionally baked on Easter Sunday and is produced with the help of natural yeast, butter, flour, sugar, and eggs. It is shaped like a dove and before baking is coated with almonds and sugar.
4. Coppia Ferrarese
It is a golden crusted bread with distinct aroma, made using flour, lard, olive oil, and malt. The process of making this bread is quite fun: keep knotting 2 dough ribbons, twisting each end into a fan like shape with 4 spokes to arrive at a set of 3- to 9-ounce loaf.
5. Freselle
Freselle is more of a type of biscuit than bread item. It is made up of Durum wheat that is usually cut into two pieces horizontally and cooked again. It is very popular int he summertime and is enjoyed with tomatoes, basil and olive oil on top; some people soften up the biscuit by dipping it into water before eating.
6. Focaccia
This oven-baked, flat bread is a distant cousin of the pizza. Topped off with herbs, meats, cheese, or vegetables, the typical options for seasoning the most famous type- which is the focaccia ligure are Italian olive oil, rosemary, sage and sea salt. The type varies with the regions in Italy. The focaccia pugliese on the other hand are made with potatoes.Schiacciataor Schiaccia is also a type of focaccia bread made in Tuscany.
7. Fragguno
This bread is stuffed with ingredients like salami, cheese, and eggs and is typically baked on Good Friday and eaten on Easter Sunday.
8. Grissini Breadsticks
These twisty and thin shaped breadsticks resembling pencils are often served with butter and wrapped in prosciutto.
9. Pandoro
Pandora, a sweet, Italian yeast bread, is mainly served on Christmas Day, frustum shaped with an 8 pointed star coated in vanilla snow like icing- perfectly dressed for the occasion.
10. Pane Carasau/Carta di Musica (sheet music)
Thin and crispy Pane Carasau is a flat, paper like bread that is usually baked twice and lasts for a year if eaten dry.
11. Pane Casareccio di Genzano
How to spot this bread, besides its round loaf like or long rod like shape, is by its unique week-long aroma. Baked inwood-fired ovens, its ingredients include natural yeast, mineral salt, water, and flour. This bread has a hard crust and soft middle- quite the dual personality!
12. Pane di Altamura
This crispy and aromatic bread is known for its long held life, the dough for this bread is usually home-made and then baked by a local professional. The family initials are always stamped into the dough so that it reaches the right house from which it is ordered.
13. Panettone
This bread, like Pandora is a sweet yeast bread served on chirstams day. The acidic dough is cured before being shaped into a cupola before being baked. Raisins, candied orange, citron, and lemon zest are used for the extra flavour. In some places in Italy, this is served with Crema di Mascarpone, or chocolate.
14. Piadina
Usually compared to Mexican tortillia, this bread is made up of flour, lard, salt, and water. This flat, fresh bread is typically stuffed with items such as cheese, salumi, vegetables, or jams before being sold.
15. Rosetta / Michetta
One of the most popular buns in Rome, they are hollow rolls used for making sandwiches. They are puffed and crunchy and look very similar to hot cross buns.
16. Taralli
Taralli is a sweet and savory ring-like snack that is either sugar-glazed or flavored with poppy seed, fennel, salt, pepper, sesame, onion, or garlic. The rings get a unique texture thanks to the boiling that precedes baking and are usually dunked in white wine.
17. Cornetto
Wi they look similar to French croissants, but cornets are sweeter and often filled with a sweet cream or jam. Remember to do like the Romans do and have them for a typical Italian breakfast!
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