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Santè Soup from Agnone

Santè Soup from Agnone is one of the most iconic dishes of Molise cuisine, deeply connected to Christmas traditions and family gatherings. Originating from the town of Agnone, this soup was created as...

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Tintilia Wine Cake

Tintilia wine cake is a dessert that celebrates one of Molise’s most distinctive native wines: Tintilia. Rediscovered and enhanced in recent decades, this grape variety gives the cake a unique and int...

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Black Truffle Fondue

Truffle fondue is the most direct way to understand what the truffle of Molise really is — a land that has turned this tuber into a matter of identity. There is nothing to hide behind: Fontina steeped...

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Beef Carpaccio with Black Truffle

When the truffle is this good, the cooking should step aside. That is exactly the principle behind this beef fillet carpaccio: paper-thin slices dressed with nothing but salt, pepper, olive oil and le...

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Chicken Breast Stuffed with Black Truffle and Fontina

Chicken breast stuffed with black truffle is the most approachable main course in this Molise collection, and the one best suited to a weeknight dinner. The technique is all in the cut: the boned brea...

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Truffle Omelette, the Molise Sunday Frittata

In the houses of Molise the truffle omelette is the dish of a good hunting Sunday: when the dog comes back with a tuber that tastes fine but isn't handsome enough to sell, it ends up in the eggs. It i...

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Potato Gnocchi with Cheese Sauce and Truffle

Gnocchi with cheese sauce and truffle is the most demanding and the most rewarding recipe in the collection. The first secret is in the potatoes: red-skinned, steamed rather than boiled, and mashed wh...

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Saffron Tagliolini with Truffle

Two great products of the central Apennines on the same plate: saffron and the truffle of Molise. The tagliolini are made with half durum wheat and half soft wheat flour, six eggs and saffron diluted ...

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Little Crespelle with Pecorino and White or Black Truffle

Crespelle with pecorino and truffle are the most restaurant-like recipe in this Molise collection: paper-thin crêpes folded into little parcels, filled with sliced soft pecorino, a spoonful of béchame...

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Baked Polenta with Black Truffle

Polenta with black truffle is a mountain dish in the fullest sense: cornmeal, the best part of an hour of stirring, and a luxury ingredient that grows a few metres from the front door. The polenta is ...

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White Truffle Risotto

The white truffle is the product that has made Molise known far beyond its own borders. Risotto shows it at its best, because rice is the perfect vehicle: neutral, rich enough once the butter is beate...

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White Cabbage Soup with Black Truffle

This is the poor man's dish of the collection, and probably the most interesting one. A savoy or white cabbage, an onion, beef stock: Molise peasant cooking in its most essential form, to which black ...