Local Dishes: Totani e Patate
- At June 14, 2015
- By Zia Lucy
- In lifestyle in Positano, Positano
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The Amalfi Coast is not only a beautiful place to stay. Its particular micro climate and it’s incredible position between the mountains and the sea had helped locals to create authentic and delicious recipes hand down through the generations.
Every single village of the coast shares its own recipe, even if there are common ingredients into it.
One of the most popular recipes in Positano and the Amalfi Coast is Totani e Patate.
Totani e Patate o “Totari e Patate” is a typical dish in Campania, made of potatoes and squids.
Even if people believe that the calamari (white squids) have a better taste and are more expensive as they’re finer, I prefer eating totani, maybe because I am a resident in Positano and my family used to go out at night to fish these delicious mollusca.
Almost all the restaurants in Positano serve the totani e patate but there are many ways of cooking them. The most popular recipes are from Positano and Praiano.
Praiano is a village nearby Positano and it’s not so far but its recipes change a lot and the way of cooking is different from our way of cooking in Positano.
The mail difference in the totani and patate recipe is the tomato sauce.
Positano style: you generally fry the squidds (cut into strips) into a pan and then cook them with tomato sauce. Add the potatoes cut into large pieces and cook all together. Then add chili peppers and parsley.
Praiano Style: the potatoes in pieces are fried into a pan. Then you can add the squidds cut into stips and fry them all togheter.
It’s hard to tell which is the best recipe. Why don’t you come on the Amalfi Coast and taste both?
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