My girlfriend Fabiana prepare for Sunday lunch a typical dish of Viareggio.
Viareggio is a city in northern Tuscany in Italy on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. With over 63,000 people it is the main centre of the northern Tuscan Riviera known as Versilia, and the second largest city in the Province of Lucca.
Viareggio is famous for the "Passeggiata",a promenade,and for the oldest Carnival in Europe,the "Carnevale di Viareggio". (Wikipedia)
"Trabaccolara" it is a dish of the tradition viareggina.
It owes his/her name to the lugger, a boat used by the fishermen of St. Benedict of the Tronto, some of which were transferred to Viareggio among the beginning of the years '20 and the end of the years'30.
It is born as poor dish, because realized by the fishermen sanbenedettesi with fishes of backdrop that, to the market of the I bring, they stayed unsold (the gallinella, the scorfano, the tracines, etc.). To these qualities of ingredients of base, someone loves to also add shellfishes and molluscs, that make the richest dish, but they estranges him/it from the native recipe.
Recipe of the Trabaccolara (Ingredients for 4 people):
