Two traditional Puglia recipe books in PDF, free: fifty recipes in total, from tradition to the garden and pantry. Leave your email just once and get both.

  • Cover of the recipe book Recipes from Puglia

    Recipes from Puglia

    Twenty-five traditional recipes, from puccia to pasticciotto. Free: we send it to you by email.

  • Cover of the recipe book The Puglia garden and pantry

    The Puglia garden and pantry

    Twenty-five recipes from the vegetable gardens and pantries of Puglia, from starters to side dishes: aubergines in oil, lampascioni, parmigiana. Free: we send it to you by email.

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The Puglia recipe book

Twenty-five traditional recipes from Puglia: from Salento puccia to pasticciotto, from orecchiette with turnip tops to Bari’s rice, potatoes and mussels.

What is inside

Bread, pizza and pastries

  • Puccia from Salento
  • Frisa from Salento
  • Puglian ‘salt water’ bread
  • Herby bread balls with tomato salsa
  • Lecce-style pasty
  • Tomato and mozzarella pizza turnover
  • Pizza Bari-style
  • Focaccia Bari-style

Pasta and first courses

  • Orecchiette pasta with tomato and cacioricotta cheese
  • Orecchiette pasta with pecorino cheese and turnip tops
  • Orecchiette with tomato sauce and strong ricotta
  • Rice, potatoes and mussels
  • ‘Tria’ pasta with chickpea sauce

Fish

  • Stuffed squid
  • Slow-cooked octopus
  • Mussel gratin

Vegetables and preserves

  • Sweet and sour peppers
  • Fried green Salentine peppers
  • Vegetable stew
  • Aubergines preserved in oil
  • Pickled vegetables

Desserts

  • Scarcella, the Easter sweet from Puglia
  • Pasticciotto cake
  • Pitteddhe
  • Fig cake

The Puglia garden and pantry

The second book: aubergines in oil, lampascioni, olives in brine, parmigiana and frittate. Twenty-five recipes from the vegetable gardens and pantries of Puglia.

What is inside

The pantry

  • Aubergine preserved in oil
  • grape jam
  • Black Olives In Brine
  • Grandma’s Lampascioni
  • Puglia-style peppers
  • Aubergine in garlic sauce

Starters and omelettes

  • Pittule
  • Italian omelette with chicories and sundried tomatoes
  • omelette with herbs
  • Chickpea fritters with courgette and mint
  • eggplant flan
  • Stuffed Mixed Vegetables

Side dishes

  • Grilled aubergines
  • Tarantine aubergines
  • Puglian aubergine rolls
  • Aubergine and potato oven bake
  • Stuffed artichokes
  • Baked courgettes with parmesan cheese
  • gratinated cardoons
  • fava beans and chicory

Salads and sauces

  • Potato and chickpea salad
  • Sun-dried tomato and feta cheese salad
  • Swiss chard pesto with almonds
  • Vegetable Bolognese sauce
  • Mediterranean wheat salad

One recipe per page, with the photo, the ingredients and the method, and a QR code that opens it on the site.

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Who made them

The books were put together by our cooking site, MyItalian.Recipes, where you will also find other free recipe books to download the same way.

The other Apulian recipes on our site, with the story behind each dish, are in the Apulian recipes section.