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What to eat in Naples? Our selection of 10 specialties
1- The Cuoppo
Street food is very present in Naples, and it's high quality. Cuoppo is a dish traditionally served in the street. Cuoppo is a paper cone filled with various fried products. Naples is a coastal city, so of course there are fish cuoppos. You'll find a mix of squid, cod, crayfish tails, cuttlefish and white fish, all fried in extra-virgin olive oil, making the frying light. There's another equally famous variant, composed of vegetables like eggplant, zucchini, and potato croquettes.
2- Pizza Margherita
Obviously, it's impossible to go to Italy without eating pizza at least once. And this is even more true in Naples, the temple of Italian pizza, where the best pizzas in the world are eaten. This pizza in the colors of the Italian flag is composed of traditional ingredients such as tomato, mozzarella, basil, olive oil and salt. Nothing simpler than preparing a margherita pizza, but simple things are sometimes the best. Its simplicity conquers all tourists visiting Naples.
3- Neapolitan Ragout
Neapolitan ragout is a meat-based sauce cooked for 6 hours, making this dish very flavorful when accompanied by rigatoni pasta. Two meats are used to make this dish: beef and pork chops. It's traditional to consume it during winter, as it's a hearty dish that warms the belly well. This ragout can also serve as a sauce for Neapolitan lasagna.
4- Neapolitan-style Lasagna
Neapolitan lasagna differs from traditional Bolognese lasagna by its ingredients. The particularity of the Neapolitan is that it's cooked with ingredients typical of southern Italy like mozzarella, ricotta, and as announced just above, Neapolitan ragout. These two cheeses replace béchamel, widely used in northern Italy. Another small difference that is a big one for locals is the pasta. Bolognese lasagna is made with egg pasta, while in Naples they use durum wheat semolina.
5- Taralli
A highly appreciated specialty for aperitifs, taralli are ring-shaped biscuits flavored with onions, garlic, sesame seeds, poppy and fennel seeds, chili and pepper. There's also a sweet version, where the biscuit is coated with icing sugar. When consumed as an aperitif, it's not surprising to see Italians eating them with a good cold beer.
6- Casatiello
Casatiello is a dish traditionally served during Easter. It's a tart decorated with cheese, lard, salami and cracklings. Eggs with their shells are placed on the tart covered with two strips of dough in the shape of a cross, representing the cross on which Jesus died.
7- Limoncello
Famous alcohol with a yellowish color, limoncello is a lemon liqueur produced in several regions of Italy, notably in Naples. To make it, limoncello requires very simple products like water, sugar, lemon zest and alcohol. Once the maturation time is finished, limoncello serves as a digestif, but can also be found in the form of a cocktail called "limonette".
8- Neapolitan Coffee
Coffee is part of the Italian art of living. It's much more than just a drink you have for breakfast or after a meal. Coffee is a ritual, a passion. It's traditional to drink your coffee while standing at the bar counter. To bring out all the coffee aromas, the barista will serve you a glass of water to drink before the coffee. You'll now feel all the flavors of generous coffee. A Neapolitan doesn't linger when it comes to drinking coffee. In one gulp, the cup is finished. Another tradition that happens in Naples and now in other cities and countries is suspended coffee. It's an altruistic act that consists of buying two coffees and leaving one on the counter for someone who doesn't have the means to pay.
9- Babà
If there's one dessert you'll find in any Neapolitan restaurant, it's babà. Made from a yeast-based dough soaked in rum, this dessert is not originally from Naples, but the Campania region has adopted it and made it an essential of Neapolitan gastronomy. Several derivatives of babà have emerged. Rum can be replaced with limoncello for a bit more tradition on the plate.
10- Sfogliatella
Sfogliatella is a delicious pastry made from local products. Prepared with puff pastry in a cone shape, the dough is filled with ricotta flavored with either vanilla or cinnamon. The best way to appreciate this pastry is to eat it while still warm, straight from the oven.