Some typical dishes you may want to try when in Lecce:
PASTICCIOTTO
Puff pastry stuffed with cream - custard, to be precise - which is often eaten for breakfast.
RUSTICO LECCESE
Puff pastry stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomato and béchamel. It’s best when still warm and melty.
CAFFÈ LECCESE
Definitely not your regular coffee. Its uniqueness is its mix: an espresso with almond milk - more like a syrup - and ice cubes. Even not coffee drinkers might come to like it.
FRISA
A hard bread that needs to be kept soaking in water - up to two minutes - usually topped with extravirgin oil, tomatoes, oregano and a pinch of salt.
CICERI E TRIA
It’s a first course that consists of a pasta dish, prepared with pasta - partially fried - called tria in the Salento dialect, and chickpeas as primary ingredients, called ciceri.
PITTULE
Fried dough. It’s an easy dish, and as all easy dishes are difficult to get right: in order to be edible, they must be perfect in water and flour balance and yeast quantity.
