From NAPOLETANA to NZUGNA

NAPOLETANA, ALLA "Neapolitan style." Any of a variety of dishes associated with Naples, usually containing tomatoes and eggplant.

NASELLO Hake, often baked with a mixture of anchovies and breadcrumbs.

NAVONE Parsnips, usually boiled, fried, or added to stews and soups.

'NCAPRIATA Apulian fava bean and wild greens soup or purée.

'NDOCCA 'NDOCCA Abruzzese dish of many parts of a pig cut into chunks and stewed with chili peppers, herbs, vinegar and spices.

'NDUGGHIA or 'NDUJA Calabrian pork sausage containing the lungs and liver. See: 'Nduja 

NECCI Tuscan chestnut flour crêpes baked in terracotta forms and served with pecorino and ricotta. See: Farina di neccio della Garfagnana

NEONATA Tiny fry fish, usually breaded and served with lemon.

NEPITELLA Wild mint.

NERVETTI IN INSALATA Lombardian cold salad with calf's foot.

NESPOLA Loquat and medlar fruit.

NIDI DI CARNEVALE "Carnival nests." Tuscan dessert made of chocolate pasta ribbons coiled into nest-like shapes, then deep fried till crisp and served with a sauce of honey, brandy and blanched almonds.

NIDI DI SCHIUMA "Nests of whitecaps." Sicilian capellini made into the shape of nests, then fried and drizzled with honey, cinnamon and candied orange peel.

NOCCIOLA Hazelnut, by far the most widely used nut in Italian cookery for everything from pastries and chocolate candies to salads. See: Nocciola di Piemonte, Nocciola di Giffoni

NOCE Walnut; the plural noci is the generic term for nuts; noce di cocco coconut, commonly eaten fresh, especially at the beach; noce moscata nutmeg, used as a spice for many foods, often added to a cream sauce; noce also refers to rumpsteak of beef or veal; noce di burro is a knob of butter.

NOCINO Bittersweet liqueur made with green walnuts in their husks.

NODINO Lombardian term for a noisette of veal cut 1 1/2 inch think.

NONNA, DELLA "Grandma style," any dish prepared according to a homestyle cooking tradition.

NORCINA, ALLA A dish made the way it is in the Umbrian town of Norcia, usually with pork.

NORCINERIA Butcher shop specializing in pork and salume; OR Pork butcher's shop.

NORCINO Pork butcher

NORMA, ALLA Sicilian spaghetti dish, sauced with tomato, fried eggplant and grated salted ricotta. It is supposedly named after Bellini's opera of the same name.

NUCATULI Sicilian Christmas almond and fig pastry.

NZUGNA Neapolitan dialect word for melted butter.

GO TO:

•  A  •  B  •  C  •  D  •  E  •  F  •  G  •  I  • L  •  M  •

• N •  O  •  P  •  Q  •  R  •  S  •  T  •  U  •  V  •  Z  • 

BACK TO: