Italian pasta and eggplant dish
Pasta alla Norma (Italian: [ˈpasta alla ˈnɔrma] ), earlier called pasta con le melanzane (lit. ' pasta with eggplant ' ),[1] [2] is a pasta dish of eggplant . It is typical of Sicilian cuisine ,[3] from Catania in particular.[4]
It is made of spaghetti or other pasta with tomato sauce , covered with slices of fried eggplant and served with grated ricotta salata cheese[4] and often basil .[5] [6]
It was named in honor of the native of Catania Vincenzo Bellini , the composer of the opera Norma .[4] [2] It is said that the Italian writer Nino Martoglio exclaimed "This is a real 'Norma'!", meaning a masterpiece, when he tasted the dish,[6] [7] though the name is not attested until decades after his death.[8]
Pasta alla Norma was named "dish of the year" by the BIT [it ] Tourism Award in 2018.[6]
See also
Media related to Pasta alla Norma at Wikimedia Commons
References
^ Touring Club Italiano , Vie d'Italia e del mondo , 1928?, p. 750
^ a b Gioacchino Balducci, Italia moderna , 1973, ISBN 0030912245 , p. 109
^ Gillian Riley (1 November 2007). The Oxford Companion to Italian Food . Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 401 –. ISBN 978-0-19-860617-8 .
^ a b c Massimo Alberini, Giorgio Mistretta, Guida all'Italia gastronomica , Touring Club Italiano, 1984, p. 337
^ "Pasta alla Norma, Its History and the Secrets of How to Make It" . La Cucina Italiana. Retrieved 18 June 2024 .
^ a b c "Ricetta pasta alla norma, la 'siciliana' più amata dagli italiani", Messina Today , 6 July 2019
^ "La vera pasta a la Norma siciliana. Origini, varianti e trucchi della ricetta" . Luciano Pignataro Wine&Food Blog . 15 July 2018.
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