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finanziera (di pollo)

Language: Italian

Description: A dish from the Piedmont, particularly Turin, designed to show off the wealth of the host. It may contain sweetbreads or chicken livers and giblets, with mushrooms, stewed in a wine or Marsala sauce, often with truffles and tomatoes. It may sometimes contain cockscombs or brains. May also be a pie of the same ingredients in a pastry shell.


Pronounced: fee-nahn-TSYEH-rah (dee POHL-loh)
Gender: f
Ethnicity: Italian
Most frequent country: Italy
Most frequent region: Turin in Piedmont

See places: Italian food and cuisine, Piedmont, Turin

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