Twenty-five traditional recipes from Puglia in a PDF you can download for free: from Salento puccia to pasticciotto, from orecchiette with turnip tops to Bari’s rice, potatoes and mussels. Leave your email below and we will send it to you straight away.

Cover of the recipe book Recipes from Puglia

Recipes from Puglia

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What is inside

One recipe per page, with the photo, the ingredients and the method, and a QR code that opens it on the site. From starters to dessert, here are the twenty-five:

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

Inside there is also a discount voucher for the Laterradipuglia shop.

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Who made it

The book was 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.