Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Food from Italy's Forgotten Corner
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Regional Food Guide
Friuli-Venezia Giulia – known simply as Friuli – sits in Italy’s north-east corner where Austria, Slovenia and the Adriatic all meet. The food here carries the influence of every culture that has passed through. This guide covers the dishes, the ingredients and the places that define Friulian cooking.
Friuli Classics
These are the dishes Friuli is known for throughout Italy. Recipes that have been cooked in this corner of Italy for generations. Many have roots in the peasant kitchens of the Carnic Alps or the port culture of Trieste. If you are eating your way around Friuli, these are the dishes you are likely to see on restaurant menus.
Featured Recipe
Friuli White Asparagus in Egg Sauce
White asparagus arrives in Friuli for just a few weeks each spring, and when it does, the region pays attention.
Grown in the sandy soils around Tavagnacco, it is sweeter and more delicate than the green variety most cooks are used to. The traditional preparation is deliberately simple – steamed spears with a warm egg sauce that lets the asparagus do the talking.
If you cook one Friuli recipe this spring, make it this one.
Latest Friuli Recipes
Friuli-Venezia Giulia is a small region with an extraordinary range of food. From the mountains of Carnia to the Adriatic coast, the terrain shapes what ends up on the plate. These are dishes you are unlikely to find on a tourist menu – some are hyper-local, some are almost unknown outside the region. That is exactly the point.
Friuli Pasta Recipes
Pasta Dishes from Italy's North-East Corner
Pasta isn’t the first thing most people think of when they think of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In a region where polenta has been the staple carbohydrate for centuries, pasta plays a much smaller role than in other parts of Italy. But when Friuli does pasta, it does it entirely on its own terms.
Some of these dishes celebrate Friuli’s connections to its past. Others just make clever use of the region’s diverse produce. Whether you want jet black pasta dish, dressed with cold-smoked mountain trout. Or one scattered with poppy seeds and icing sugar, Friuli certainly has some unusual but fantastic pasta recipes to try.
