After a long and interesting tour of discovery around the Venice Jewish Ghetto, your stomach will probably ask you to stop and get some food, before start exploring Venice again. But the question is: what should you taste at the Venice Jewish Ghetto? What kind of typical food should I eat first? Let’s start saying that the Jewish cuisine introduced several ingredients into the Venetian way of cooking food. For example, the use of raisin and pine nuts, which gave birth to the extremely famous Sarde in Saor.
Being aware of this, we can now introduce you some traditional food you must taste at the Venice Jewish Ghetto.
Hummus
Classical and unavoidable, Hummus is a soft mousse made by chickpeas, olive oil, lemon and tahini. This cream is usually served with some bread, like a pita.
Haman’s Ears
These are filled-pocket cookies with jam, almonds, poppy seeds or chocolate. There are several bakeries that sell them, it won’t be difficult to find them.
Shawarma
This is a meat preparation. Lamb, chicken or other kinds of meat are cooked on a vertical rotating spit and then served with some lafa flatbread. Delicious.
Bisse
These cookies are one of the most typical sweet treats from the Venice Jewish Ghetto. Even if they are usually prepared for Passover, you can find them almost all year around. They are unleavened cookies with an “S” form since the term “bissa” means grass snake in Venetian dialect.
Impàde
Among the things you must eat at the Venice Jewish Ghetto there’s another pastry, called Impàde. It’s a long pastry biscuit filled with a sugar, eggs and almonds dough.
Matzah ball
If you are visiting Venice in winter, this soup will warm you up. This soup is made from a mixture of matzah, water, eggs and a fat.
If you have already eaten Knödel, you ‘ll find some similarities in its flavor.
Rugelach
Last but not least, here’s another typical pastry: the Rugelach. At first sight, it looks like a banal croissant, but in reality, it has nothing to do with it. Rugelach can be made with sour cream or cream cheese doughs, but you can even find them with no dairy ingredients.
