Testaieu with pesto: made in the testi is typical Ligurian.
Finally I managed to take a nice photo of a testaieu (or testatolo in Italian) with pesto. Still cooked in the testi I assure you that it was truly excellent. Eaten in the trattoria Da E Figge Du Baratta in Sestri Levante.
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Testaieu are a typical dish of Ligurian regional cuisine, very popular mainly in the eastern part of the metropolitan city of Genoa and, traditionally, in Val Graveglia.
The preparation involves a medium-fluid dough of equal parts water and flour with the addition of salt, which is poured into terracotta testetti previously heated over a wood fire. The latter are mainly made in Iscioli, a hamlet in the municipality of Ne.
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