Cuisine of Umbria

'''''' (; ) are an elongated form of , or hand-rolled pasta. The name is also used for a baked cheese and vegetable dumpling, prepared in some regions of Italy.

Porchetta () is a savory, fatty, and moist boneless pork roast of Italian culinary tradition. The carcass is deboned and spitted or roasted traditionally over wood for at least eight hours, fat and skin still on. In some traditions, porchetta is stuffed with liver and wild fennel, although many versions do not involve stuffing. Porchetta is usually heavily salted and can be stuffed with garlic, rosemary, fennel, or other herbs, often wild. Porchetta has been selected by the Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policy as a (PAT), one of a list of traditional Italian foods held to

Passatelli are a pasta formed of bread crumbs, eggs, grated Parmesan cheese, and in some regions lemon, and nutmeg; it is typically cooked in chicken broth. Typically, it is found mainly in Romagna, Pesaro and Urbino province (northern Marche), Ancona province (central Marche) and other regions of Italy, such as Umbria.

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Stringozzi or Strangozzi is an Italian wheat pasta, among the more notable of those produced in the Umbria region. The long, rectangular cross-section noodles are made by hand and generally served with the local black truffles, a meat ragù or a tomato-based sauce. The name of the pasta is drawn from its resemblance to shoelaces, as stringhe is Italian for "strings".

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Crescia () is a thin Italian flatbread typically prepared in Marche and Umbria (Pesaro, Urbino, Ancona, Macerata, Perugia, and Terni). The crescia probably has a common ancestry to the piadina, to be found in the bread used by the Byzantine army, stationed for centuries in Romagna, in the north of the Marche (Pentapolis), and in the Umbrian Valley crossed by the Via Flaminia. The food is also known by the common name of "white pizza".