Neapolitan Cuisine - Rice Dishes

Rice Dishes

The most famous rice dish is the sartù di riso, a sort of timballo made with rice, stuffed with chicken livers, sausage, little meatballs, fior di latte or provola, peas, mushrooms, and with Neapolitan ragù, or, in the white version ("in bianco") with béchamel sauce.

In the cuisine of the poor, rice is also cooked as riso e verza (rice with cabbage), flavored within little pieces of parmigiano-reggiano cheese crusts, that slightly melt while cooking.

A seafood rice dish is the risotto alla pescatora ("Fisherman's risotto"), prepared with various mollusks (different types of clams, squids, cuttlefishes), shrimps and a broth made from the boiling of seafood shells.

The Arancini (palle 'e riso), more typical of Sicilian cuisine, are also frequently used in Naples.

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