Marinated Chicken With Chunky, Fresh Tomato Sauce
On my only trip to Italy I learned an important lesson. When it comes to food, it’s not how creative you can be but how authentic.
While we traveled around, I kept looking for the Italian restaurants that would serve what I referred to as “modern Italian”. I wanted crazy, creative Italian food and I thought I was in the mecca of Italian creativity, so I should find it easily.
Not so much.
What I found were traditional dishes. And what I learned is the Italians rate the food on how authentic it tastes. If the sauce tastes like the one their grandmother made, then it’s proper Italian food. The different restaurants brag about their sauces and the history behind them. When you listen to Italians talk about their food they are talking about how to master a decades old recipe; not inventing a new one.
I did finally find what I was looking for in one restaurant in Milan...
Read the full column at PlanZDiet.com
Related Recipes at PlanZDiet.com:
Italian Lemon Chicken
Grilled Tuna with an Asian Flair
Marinated Chicken With Chunky, Fresh Tomato Sauce
This is a ZReduction and Zola to Go! recipe. It’s colorful, it’s low cal and it’s very tasty.
...continued
