FERRARA - PUMPKIN

In the province of Ferrara, the pumpkin violina, with an intense orange pulp, compact, sweet and firm, grows in soils with unique sensory characteristics that give it an excellent quality. This production is of considerable economic and gastronomic importance; in the traditional local cuisine, in fact, the strong dish are the pumpkin chaplains, but the delicious fruit can also be enjoyed as a pasta dressing, in almond cake, in the form of soup, sliced baked, fried, dusted with sugar, in risotto , in dumplings, in puree or as a magic touch of flavor in vegetable minestrone.