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Viva Italia

The well-known delicacies of Umbria region of Italy was on display at Italia restaurant in New Delhi's Radisson hotel recently.

Forming part of the Yummy Umbria Food Festival, the restaurant laid out a wide fare for its diners. Interesting dishes like olive alla perugia (crumb-fried olives marinated in fennel and garlic), cipollata (braised onion soup with tomato, salted pork, basil, and parmesan cheese), cannelloni rustici (baked spinach, red onion, caramelised sweet potato filled tubular pasta topped with red pepper fondue), rissotto al tartufo (creamy cheese risotto topped with gold leaf and black truffle shavings), maiale alla griglia con salsa zingara (grilled pork chops in a sage, panceta pepper and mushroom sauce with char grilled ciabatta) and zuccotto (dome shaped coke moistened with Italian liqueur filled with ice cream, chocolate shaving and nuts) found quite a few takers here.

The restaurant Chef Sreenivasan said, "All the ingredients for the festival are flown especially from Umbria."

As some of the dishes had truffle, the Chef took extra care to explain the delicacy. Truffle, commonly known as wild mushroom, is best grown during monsoon and they grow underground which cannot be procured without the help of dogs, he said. It has a very distinct smell which the dog sniff and pull them over ground. "Truffles are considered regal and are weighed in grams across Europe," the Chef added in case you are not aware.

But even though you are a novice at cuisines, you couldn't have missed the taste of the dishes.

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