Sardinian Foods & Diet

Sardinian foods are some of the important foods that should be included in your diet program, if you want to live healthy or reduce your weight. Sardinian Diet even could be the secret to longevity for you.

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and part of Italy. Sardinia's people well-known with their longevity. Actually, longevity has not a secret for the people of Sardinia. They are just eating thier local foods. It must be easy to learn their secret. What you have to do is, adding the local foods of Sardina in your diet program. We don't need to know all the foods in Sardinian diet. It is enough to know what they often consume. If we consume same kinds of foods that they often consume, we can discover their longevity secret.

After a little search on the WEB, I found some information about Sardanian Diet and Sardanian's local foods.

The Sardinian diet, like most Mediterranean diet. Sardinian's diet can be described as having a good base of carbohydrates.

What are the local foods in Sardinia?

Fish

As you would expect with an island culture fish features very highly on most menus. I think if I could go to Sardinia, I would see fishes almost on every dishes. Invariably we can find one type of freshly caught sea food or another on the table or menu in the restaurants or in any homes in Sardinia. Fish is most important food that you should add to your meal.

Cheese

Cheese is a Sardinian gastonomic speciality due to the islands traditional Shepherding. People of Sardinia consume quite a bit of cheese and their cheese of choice is Pecorino. (Pecorino is the name of a family of hard Italian cheeses made from sheep milk.)

Breads

Bread along with pasta is one of the main staples of the Sardinian diet.
Carasau: One of the most famous Sardinian breads.
Su civraxiu: Another very popular bread made all over Sardinia but particularly in Oristano, Iglesias and the plains of Cagliari.
Coccoi: It is a very popular bread not only for its taste but also for its shape which changes from village to village.

Pasta

Malloreddus: Tiny gnocchi They are made of semolina flour and water, sometimes saffron is added.
Curlgiones: It is the most typical and elaborate Sardinian pasta shape,which are hand madel.

Desserts and Dolci

Sebadas: Le sebadas, are the most popular Sardinian dessert made with cheese and honey which is fried in a large pastry envelope.

Red Wine

Cannonau is a special Sardinian Red wine very popular in Italy. It's a srong wine.

These foods that has mentioned below, mostly foods of Sardanians. By adding Sardinian foods to your dishes, you can help to your goal of healthy living and longevity.

Sources: wikipedia.org, go-sardinia.com

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