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polpette
rissoles or meatballs
The word polpette comes from 'pulp' and any meat, fish or vegetables combined together and bound, usually with an egg and some flour, is a polpetta. Big ones are polpettone.
One of the more popular dishes is polpette al pomodoro, meatballs in tomato sauce— the base of the classic Italian-American spaghetti and meatballs.
Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls
Image by Giorgio Minguzzi