Italian appetizers
Best authentic Italian appetizers you'll love. Favorite recipes for Italian style appetizers such as eggplant, prosciutto and cantalope. Appetizer for an Italian dinner.
What is your favorite one?
Do you prepare it yourself or where do you eat it?How to serve Italian appetizers? Here you have many well-loved suggestions of what to serve, together with a simple glass of good wine, finger food recipes that are very easy and simple to prepare.
Appetisers usually precede dinner.
Usually when you go to a wine bar in Italy, the most used are cold appetizer recipes as they usually propose an Italian cheeses appetizers board and/or cured meats like salami, cooked ham, Parma raw ham and Bologna sausage.
What else can we eat on these occasions?
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Fresh bread is placed in a basket and served with pieces of gorgonzola and slices of speck, so each one can serve her or himself.
Otherwise you can cut the bread into small squares (that can be eaten in one bite) and top with a piece of speck and a piece of gorgonzola and serve as canapès.
5) Buy good Italian cured meats and cut into slices. Serve with a basket of fresh bread.6) The more traditional are also simple appetizers: Melon and Parma raw ham. It's a classic that always works. You can cut the melon in slices and top with the raw ham slices.
In this case each person will need a small dish, fork and knife. Otherwise you can cut the melon and the raw ham into small squares and serve on toothpicks, as finger food. It will be easier to eat with a single bite (avoiding extra dishes). You can put them on a serving plate or do as in the 60's, covering a cabbage with aluminium and then placing all the toothpicks on it.
