Typical products from Salento

Salento has a cuisine made of a few good things: vegetables from the garden, oil, bread and pulses, grown between sun, sea and wind. We are in Cutrofiano, in the heart of Salento, and from here we ship all over Italy and abroad.

What are the typical products of Salento

From the vegetable garden

Peppers, aubergines, courgettes and tomatoes are the basis of everything. Then there are the vegetables that are hard to find outside Salento: Galatina chicory, lampascioni, small bulbs with a slightly bitter taste, cime di rapa and mugnoli. And capers, preserved in salt.

Bread and baking

Puccia, the typical bread roll of Salento, uliata, friselline and taralli, in many different flavours.

Pasta, oil and wine

Semolina orecchiette, extra virgin olive oil and the local wines, such as Primitivo and Negroamaro.

Dishes and street food

Among the main courses, besides fish, there are gnummareddhi and snails, which here are called moniceddhe. In the street people eat rustico leccese, calzone and filled puccia.

Sweets

Almond paste, cupeta, mustaccioli and pasticciotto leccese, filled with custard.

The products from Salento we ship to you

Many of them you will find in our shop:

• Vegetables in oil and preserves: lampascioni in oil, cime di rapa in oil, capers from Salento in sea salt and, in season, fresh lampascioni and mugnoli from Salento.
• Olives: Leccine and Celline olives, pitted, in brine, and Leccine olive pâté.
• Bread and baking: puccia from Salento, friselline with olive oil and taralli.
• Pasta: semolina orecchiette and, when they can be shipped, the fresh hand-made ones.
• Wine: Primitivo and Negroamaro from a winery in Cutrofiano.
• Sweets: almond pastries, pitteddhe filled with figs and sweet taralli with vincotto.
• Terracotta: from Cutrofiano, one of Puglia’s ceramics towns, come hand-made pots and pans and plates and tableware.

What to give from Salento

A good oil, a bottle of wine, a few jars of vegetables in oil and a bag of taralli: it is the simplest and most welcome gift from Salento. If you want it ready-made, have a look at our gift boxes and the Cutrofiano box, or make up your own and choose gift wrapping when you order.

How they reach your home

We prepare orders in Cutrofiano and ship them by express courier: in Italy they usually arrive within 24–48 working hours of dispatch. Glass and bottles travel in protective packaging, fresh products only when the weather is cool. Costs and times on the shipping page.

Looking for products from the whole of Puglia? Read our guide to typical products from Puglia.