Visiting the Dolomites means savoring typical cuisine. This is a "poor", traditional cuisine, made up of simple and genuine dishes. The same dishes that grandmothers cooked are now revisited and re-proposed by chefs in restaurants and mountain huts, always keeping faith with tradition.
TRADITIONAL DISHES
Among the typical first courses of the Dolomites we remember the casunziei, half-moon ravioli stuffed with pumpkin, spinach, red turnips, each valley has its own typical filling. Potato or pumpkin gnocchi served with mountain butter and smoked ricotta. The dumplings, the barley soup. While in the main courses game reigns supreme, together with polenta, (yellow or mixed with buckwheat) the undisputed protagonist of the cuisine of the Dolomites.
TYPICAL PRODUCTS
Potatoes, barley, corn, pumpkins, mushrooms, beans and other legumes are certainly the products of the earth most present in the recipes and typical dishes of the Dolomites. In addition, dairy products: cheeses, milk, butter which for centuries represented the main protein source for the inhabitants of the Dolomite valleys.
THE SWEETS
There are numerous sweets typical of the Dolomites, but the undisputed king is the apple strudel, in some areas made with shortcrust pastry and in others with puff pastry. Then there are pies with berries, ricotta, apple, buckwheat pies etc ...
Among the oldest desserts we remember the Kaiuserschmarrn, (sweet omelette with local fruits) typical of the South Tyrolean tradition and of Austrian origin and the '' zope '' (stale bread that is sweetened, breaded and fried), typical of the Cadore valleys.
THE GRAPPAS
Winter is long, you know… especially for those who choose to visit the Dolomites, where temperatures often drop well below zero. Here then is that to warm up there is nothing better than a good grappa, or "sgnapa", as we say here. They can be found flavored with local berries, such as “barancio” and juniper grappa or with roots and herbs, such as gentian and rue grappa. For lovers of sweet grappa there is no shortage of blueberry and berries and many others.
