Umbrian recipes and extra virgin olive oil guides

Traditional dishes where olive oil plays its part, and everything you need to choose, taste, and store it.

Featured · Ricette · 50 min with rest · Cook 15 min

Strangozzi à la Spoleto

Strangozzi are the pasta of Spoleto, rustic and egg-free: the name is reminiscent of shoelaces. "Alla spoletina," they are dressed with a simple sauce, in which tomato is cooked in oil with garlic and chili pepper.

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Ricette · 40 minutes including rest · Cook 20 min

Torta al testo with sautéed greens

It is the quick bread of Umbria, cooked on a *testo*, a red-hot disk whose name comes from the Latin *testum*. In Perugia it...

In the dough and in the sautéing Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil - 500 ml bottle €14,00 €28,00/l

Ricette · 20 min + 12 h soaking · Cook 1 hr 30 min

Umbrian imbrecciata, legume and cereal soup

A humble soup from the Umbrian peasant tradition, created to avoid wasting the remnants of legumes and grains in the pantry. Every spoonful is...

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Ricette · 15 min · Cook 40 min

Castelluccio lentil soup

On the Castelluccio di Norcia plateau, lentils are sown as soon as the snow melts, and their blooming colors the plain at the beginning...

Raw, over the soup Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil - 500 ml bottle €14,00 €28,00/l

Ricette · 15 min + 24 h soaking · Cook 1 hr 15 min

Grass pea cream, olive oil and rosemary

The grass pea is an ancient Umbrian legume, rustic and flavorful, which has returned to our tables thanks to small-scale farmers. When blended, it...

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Ricette · 5 min · Cook 5 min

Bruschetta with new-harvest olive oil

In Umbria, bruschetta is the first taste of freshly pressed oil: in Spello, it is celebrated every winter with "L’Oro di Spello." Bread, garlic,...

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Ricette · 20 min + 12 h soaking · Cook 1 h 20 min

Roveja pea soup with organic extra virgin olive oil

The roveja is a small wild pea from the Valnerina, cultivated for centuries in the mountains of Umbria. In soup, it becomes thick and...

Raw, over the hot soup Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil - 500 ml bottle €14,00 €28,00/l

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Umbrian recipes and extra virgin olive oil guides

Strangozzi à la Spoleto

Torta al testo with sautéed greens

Umbrian imbrecciata, legume and cereal soup

Castelluccio lentil soup

Grass pea cream, olive oil and rosemary

Bruschetta with new-harvest olive oil

Roveja pea soup with organic extra virgin olive oil

Moraiolo, Frantoio, Leccino: the cultivars of Umbrian oil

Cold-pressed: what it really means

New 2026 olive oil: when it arrives and how to recognize it

How to store extra virgin olive oil: tin or bottle?

Wild asparagus frittata

A recipe every now and then, and the new oil before everyone else.