Good morning 💚❤everyone!!! Today I want introduce to you this wonderfull dish : Pasta alla Norma. This is an Sicilian Recipe made in whole Italy but the city that give birth this plate it’s also the city that give birth to me : Catania! In my city we also call it ” pasta cca sassa e i mulinciani fritti” aka pasta with tomato sauce and fried eggplant.
The history of the name have origin probably from a apocryphal exclamation by the Italian writer Nino Martoglio who, upon tasting the dish, exclaimed “This is a real ‘Norma’!”,  comparing it with the exceptional perfection of the Vincenzo Bellini Opera Norma.
According to others, the recipe would have been perfected, reinterpreted and developed on the basis of traditional cuisine by a chef on the occasion of the celebrations for the new opera from Catania. Since it has always been a fairly consolidated practice by top chefs and event organizers to pat homage to illustrious guests of honor with dishes created ad hoc, perhaps in one of the many receptions Bellini himself was present in his land.
Continue reading “Pasta alla Norma”
Italian Recipes Homemade 