The traditional cuisine of Venice consists of simple and tasty recipes like Spaghetti alla busara. The busara comes from Trieste and Istria and it blends with the culinary tradition of Venice after the second postwar period, becoming one of the most distinctive dish of the lagoon cooking.

The meaning of the term “busara” has many explanations: some think that it derives from an iron or clay pot used to cook the everyday meal on the fishing vessels, while others think it just means “soup”. Others think that the term derives from the dialect term “busara” which means “lie” referring to the fact that the scampi are hidden by the tomato sauce.

The Spaghetti alla busara are a first course of spaghetti dipped in a generic soup of tomato and crustaceans, mainly scampi, but every kind of seafood is welcomed. There are many versions of the recipe and the busara can go with other food than spaghetti like tagliolini (another kind of pasta) and risotto. In the traditional recipe of Trieste or Istria the soup is less sloppy in order to enhance the taste of scampi.

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