Italian Food Menus: Primi Piatti
Italian Pasta Dishes & Risotto Menus

The Italian Restaurant Menus Collection
from Maremma, Italy

Italian Pasta Dishes: orecchiette

In this third in the series of Italian Food Menus from undiscovered Maremma in Tuscany and Lazio, Italy, "Primi Piatti - Italian Pasta Dishes and Risotto Menus" brings you great samples of first course menus from an Italian restaurant kitchen: traditional Italian dishes from the land and the sea.

 

Enjoy imagining the flavours.

 

La Lanternina 2 Palmieri
Italian Restaurant Menu

PRIMI PIATTI di Mare
- First Courses from the sea


PIATTO TRIS DI MARE
(tortelli mare monti - risotto alla marinara – penne allo scoglio)
(Preparazione minima per 2 persone)
(Minimum order is for two people.)

TAGLIATELLE AL SALMONE
(salmone affumicato e panna)
Tagliatelle pasta with smoked salmon and cream

PENNE ALLO SCOGLIO
(cozze, seppie, calamari, crostacei con pomodoro)
Penne pasta with seafood (mussels, cuttlefish, squid, crustaceans) and tomato sauce

TORTELLI MARE-MONTI
(tortelli di ricotta e spinaci in salsa di calamari e seppie con panna)
Ricotta cheese and spinach ravioli with a seafood (squid and cuttlefish) and cream sauce

CANNELLONI ALLA “LANTERNINA 2”
(gamberetti, asparagi e panna)
Cannelloni pasta with asparagus and cream

RISOTTO ALLA PESCATORA
(seppie, calamari e totani in bianco)
Fisherman's Style Risotto (cuttlefish, squid, and totani - another cephalopod similar to calamari, in a sauce without tomatoes)

SPAGHETTI ALLE VONGOLE VERACI (in bianco)
Spaghetti with clams in a sauce without tomatoes

GNOCCHI AI GAMBERI E PANNA
Potato dumplings with prawns and cream

SPAGHETTI ALL’ASTIC
Spaghetti with Lobster
(Preparazione minima per 2 persone)
(Minimum order is for two people)

BAVETTE AI FRUTTI DI MARE
(condimento misto di pesce in bianco con crostacei)
Mixed fish with crustaceans in a sauce without tomatoes

 

 

PRIMI PIATTI SENZA GLUTINE
First courses without Gluten

(To be ordered in advance. Waiting time about 25-30 minutes.)


TAGLIATELLE ALL’UOVO con panna e gamberetti
Tagliatelle pasta made with egg with cream and prawns

PENNE DI MAIS con calamaretti e zucchini
Penne pasta made with corn, with small squids and courgettes

SPAGHETTI DI RISO (100% riso) alle vongole veraci
Spaghetti made with rice (100%) with clams

 

A richiesta è disponibile il sugo di pomodoro
Upon request the above dishes are available with a tomato sauce

 

 

PRIMI PIATTI di Terra
First Courses from the land


SPAGHETTI AL POMODORO
Spaghetti with tomato sauce

SPAGHETTI AL RAGU
Spaghetti with a meat "ragu" sauce

SPAGHETTI ALLA CARBONARA
Spaghetti with cheese, egg, pancetta, olive oil and pepper
(No half portion available)

TORTELLINI ALLA BOLOGNESE
Tortellini pasta with bolognese sauce

TORTELLINI PANNA E PROSCIUTTO
(Panna, prosciutto cotto)
Tortellini pasta with cream and cooked ham

GNOCCHI AI FUNGHI
Potato dumplings with mushrooms

TORTELLI "MAREMMA"
Tortelli (type of ravioli) pasta filled with ricotta cheese and spinach with a meat "ragu" sauce

PENNE AI QUATTRO FORMAGGI
Penne pasta with a four cheese sauce

PIATTO TRIS “TOSCANA ”
(Penne alla boscaiola, tortelli al ragù, riso ai funghi)
A plate of two pastas and a rice dish
(Penne pasta with a mushroom-based sauce, tortelli pasta in a meat "ragu" sauce, and mushroom risotto)


PENNE ALLA PUTTANESCA
(Pomodoro, olive, capperi, peperoncino, aglio, prezzemolo)
Pasta penne with a tomato, olive, caper, chilli, garlic and parsley sauce

TAGLIATELLE ALLA BOSCAIOLA
(Panna e salciccia)
Tagliatelle pasta with a cream and sausage sauce

 

 

The photograph of Orecchiette above is by kind permission of checcastef.

 

Read more about the La Lanternina restaurant, one of my favourite restaurants in Follonica. The food is great, the menu extensive and from the outdoor tables opposite the beach you can also watch the sunset over the Isola d'Elba in the centre of the Golfo di Follonica. Bliss.

 

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