Istria's eventful history has left a significant footprint in the kitchen - the influence of Italy, Central Europe, particularly Austrian, Hungarian and Slavic cuisine feels in Pula's restaurants that offer a great variety of foods rich in, and where you can taste dishes of seafood, but meal so. Continental Istria.
In Pula, just as in most towns of Istria, be sure to taste seafood specialties, of which dishes Rospi (monkfish), sea bass or delicious buzara Kvarner scampi only a small number of delicacies on offer. In Pula you should try and shells, thanks to the clear waters are a special flavor dondolas, Mussels, Scallops or kanaštrele. Are excellent thing to add a little lemon.
In Pula you will be happy to offer excellent fish stew, and definitely should try the black risotto with cuttlefish. Lovers of oily fish to taste anchovies to savor. This dish is eaten cold and fried sardines topped with sauce, oil, onion, vinegar and spices.
However, not everyone likes fish and seafood specialties. In Pula, the choice is concerned there is really no problem. Namely, the starter in Pula restaurants, a true - Istrian ham, which is one of the most popular brands of Istria. Istrian prosciutto is unique in the way it is prepared and cured and then dried in the bora. In the restaurant, ask the ham snick a knife - it gives a special charm.
The so-called scrambled eggs or omelet of the traditional dishes in Pula prepared in many ways, unavoidable scrambled eggs with wild asparagus, wild plant rich in potassium, vitamin C, A and B. Fritaja is prepared with dried sausages, onions, truffles ... . And each one is special in its own way.
In Pula you should try and maneštras traditional thick soup whose main ingredients are potatoes and beans with added pest (mixture of bacon and garlic). This delicacy is their top issues experience a refined sweet corn (young corn), ily fermentunom (chopped corn), it is excellent and with chickpeas or farom (barley). In maneštre very often puts a bone from the Istrian ham, a specific taste it where young fennel. Maneštra in which the basic ingredients of potatoes and beans, sauerkraut is added to iota.
The influence of Italian cuisine in Istria is best felt in different types of tasty pasta, which are offered in Pula. The most popular are pasta and gnocchi. Fusi are made with eggs, flour and water. Since these ingredients are kneaded dough which is then rolled out and cut into rectangles whose vertices then merged and folded so.
Gnocchi are made of kneaded into dough with flour, eggs and potatoes. Fusi, and gnocchi are usually served with various sauces, the itch to call them in Pula, the most traditional stew. The sauce of onions, tomatoes, chicken and spices.
However, the fusi and gnocchi it does not seem to try ravioli, pljukanci, pasutice or makaruni on the spoon. Ravioli pasta stuffed with various fillings, and the most special among them are labinski krafi. Encourage vegetarians to try posutice with fresh herbs to the olive oil and garlic are have a distinct taste.
In Pula you will be after a meal offered simple but very tasty sweets, the most they korštule and fritters and cukerančići. However, it offers you the restaurant povetica (strudel) or peaches, do not refuse. Join dessert typical Istrian Muscat, expressive wine with semi-sweet smell your bouquet will be a complete experience.
In recent years, Istria has become the production of top quality Croatian wines. Wine was once divided into red and white, and today in Pula burgundy wine shops you can taste, a Croat, but also varieties known in the worldwide rig Chardonnay, gray and white Pinot, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. However, the most famous Istrian wines are Malvasia and Teran. A synonym for white wine in Istria Malvasia produced from indigenous white grapes. Istrian Malvasia is dry and has a golden yellow color. The best, experts say, in the year of production.
What is the white Malvasia, it is for red wine Teran. Teran is intensely colored, almost purple, and it should be like Malvasia drink in the year of manufacture. While the Malvasia best choice to accompany seafood, risotto and pasta, Teran will manage perfectly in combination with Istrian prosciutto and wild animals.
From Teran to prepare Istrian supa - specifically food and drink as you please. In fact, soup is prepared so that zapečni bread and sugar in the Istrian bolaketi overflow Teran, add them up a little oil, pepper and salt. Soup is eaten with a spoon, it is advisable to drink a little wine.
In Pula's restaurants will offer you and truffles, rare and precious fungus that grows underground in the heart of Istria. Truffle dishes are the highlight of gastronomy. In Pula's restaurants will offer you a fusi or gnocchi with truffles, and once you get used to their specific smell and taste, you should try the steak or cheese with truffles. Truffle, or one of the most respected in the world, and it is found in Istria and the world's heaviest truffle added in Guinessevu Book of Records. It does not seem to mention that the truffle is one of the most famous aphrodisiac.
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