TESORI GASTRONOMICI DI CALABRIA
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Serfunghi Calabria
Luigi Calabretta's Serfunghi Calabria was born in 1964 when our father returned from France and began marketing fresh and semi-finished mushrooms. The company for the invasion and processing of mushrooms was subsequently created by us children who, having a small restaurant where we could taste our products, received constant requests for jars of mushrooms in oil to be taken away; this has led us to date to bring our mushrooms, collected manually on site by expert people, with the utmost respect for the environment, carefully selected and processed following the most ancient Calabrian recipes without preservatives with the most authentic and genuine flavor and taste of tradition on your tables.
Our product range also includes appetizers, pates, sauces, spices and other delicacies made with simple and natural products ready to tantalize all palates and to accompany and make all your dishes unique.
The Serfunghi company of Luigi Calabretta offers you this simple and quick virtual showcase in the application through which you can appreciate Calabrian porcini mushrooms of undisputed quality, handcrafted and preserved in glass jars so as to leave unaltered flavors and authenticity made in order to satisfy the food-pleasure aspect, allow us the term, of our human being.
Calabria, land of beaches, lots of sea, fertile countryside and mountains characterized by places with fairy tale atmospheres, is the result of the activities of many peoples and many cultures that have inhabited it over the centuries.
This situation returns an extremely composite mix of traditions, which translate into a wide range of very wide and sometimes unique flavors and aromas, such as to satisfy even the most demanding palate.
Its cuisine is of strong and genuine flavors: from the sea to the mountains, the typical dishes that characterize the region are varied and all particularly tasty and are mostly made with the healthy products that the land offers.
Here you can taste dishes with unique flavors expertly blended with the ever-present chili pepper, perhaps accompanying them with an excellent glass of local wine. This splendid mix allows you to fully savor the flavors and atmosphere of a bygone age, when the farmers, after spending a day of hard work in the fields, gathered around a table to eat toasting together with the day just spent enjoying at full what were the real pleasures - now forgotten - given by a simple life: friendship and good food.
The typical products that form the basis of the tasty Calabrian gastronomy are many. Among these, the mushroom, which, starting from the end of summer and throughout the autumn, is born and grows under the pine forests and beech trees of the Sila as well as inside the Serre Calabre national park.
The species most present and expertly worked by skilled hands are the "porcino" (Boletus Edulis) and the "rosito" (Agaric Delightful). Among the "masters" of the art of selecting, working and "miracles" with the tuber, king of the forest, to delight the finest and most demanding palates, the Serfunghi Calabria DI LUIGI CALABRETTA company born in 1964 when Raffaele Calabretta, father of the current owner , who had emigrated to France then returned to Calabria, initiated the marketing of fresh and semi-finished mushrooms begins. In fact, having become an expert mushroom picker, my father dried porcini mushrooms by spreading them on nets and letting them stay in the sun for a few days. He then tried to keep other types of mushrooms in water and salt obtaining an excellent result, says Luigi Calabretta, the owner of the company.
«In the territory of Calabria, I live in a hermitage far enough, from all sides, from the houses of men. What could I tell you adequately about its amenities, its mild and healthy climate, the vast and pleasant plain that extends for a long stretch between the mountains, with its green meadows and its flourishing pastures? Who will describe in an appropriate way the appearance of the hills that are gently rising from all sides, the recess of the shady valleys, with the pleasant wealth of rivers, streams and springs? Neither irrigated orchards, nor fruit trees varied and fertile »
The company is located within the Serre Calabre national park, in the locality of Serra San Bruno, known for the Carthusian abbey that stands there. At 790 meters above sea level, in the heart of present-day central-southern Calabria, Bruno di Colonia (1030 ca. - 6.X.1101) founded in 1091, in fact, the hermitage of Santa Maria del Bosco, better known as the Certosa di Serra San Bruno.
In a letter of 1097 addressed to Raoul le Vert, one of the two companions who made the vow together with him to devote themselves to monastic life.
In the wake of the success of the delicious vases of mushrooms in Daddy Raffaele's oil created following the most ancient traditions, which the children enjoyed in their restaurant, the company was created for the invasion and processing of mushrooms whose delicacies today they are the masters on the tables of gourmets, from Calabria and beyond.
So today Serfunghi preserves the "miracles" (to remain on the mystical theme) created by nature, without added preservatives, with their authentic and genuine flavor and the taste of tradition: whole or cut porcini, porcini of the greenhouses, "nguditi mushrooms "Wild and undergrowth mushrooms, mixed mushrooms, chiodetti mushrooms, chanterelle mushrooms, musk mushrooms, all collected manually on site by expert people, with maximum respect for the environment, carefully selected and processed following the most ancient Calabrian recipes, they delight those who have the pleasure of having them on their table where they dominate in the version in oil, natural, dry, even, in powder and, even, frozen.re of the place as follows:
Just this territory has been the cradle of Serfunghi DI LUIGI CALABRETTA. Calabrian porcini mushrooms, in fact, of undisputed quality, handcrafted and preserved in glass jars in order to leave the flavors and genuineness unaltered, made in order to satisfy the food-enjoyment aspect, allow us the term of our "Human being", says Mr. Luigi. Serfunghi's "pantry" is very well stocked: an invitation to taste and be delighted by the exquisite delicacies now exported to CANADA FRANCE SWITZERLAND AUSTRALIA SPAIN AUSTRIA GREAT BRITAIN GERMANY.
Pantry in which the mushrooms, moreover, are in excellent, indeed "exquisite" company: together with the mushrooms, in fact, you can taste the other products based on aubergines, courgettes, olives, peppers, Tropea red onion, artichokes, tomatoes, spices to create sauces, appetizers, pates.
Those of porcini mushrooms, aubergines, black olives, artichokes, dried tomatoes, garlic, red onion are adorable; the "Piccantino per Golosi" with spicy chilli pepper, olive oil, aubergines, dried tomatoes, garlic, onion, oregano, natural flavors is delicious.
A delight for the palate the aubergines in slices or slices, the artichokes, whole or cut, and the tomatoes in oil that give life to the "Serrese Appetizer" with oil, green tomatoes, dried tomatoes, peppers, olives, aubergines, artichokes, oregano salt; dried or green tomatoes in oil, or "Eggplant rolls" with olive oil, dried tomatoes, anchovies, olives, garlic, parsley, vinegar, chili pepper, oregano, salt.
Green olives are a delicacy: whole, natural, crushed or pitted; natural or dried black olives, “Monacali Alla Contadina” olives with sunflower oil, garlic, fennel. With a unique taste, the "Giardiniera Del Contadino" with vinegar, salt, carrots, cucumbers, zucchini, peppers, spring onions, cabbage, turnips, onion and the "Antipasto Del Contadino": oil, carrots, cucumbers, courgettes, peppers, spring onions, cabbage, turnips, onion.
Without neglecting, inevitable, the chili which is in the "Calabrese Stuffed Cherries" version: spicy chillies, olive oil, anchovies, dried tomatoes, olives, salt, vinegar; "Chilli with Tuna": spicy chillies, olive oil, tuna, olives, salt, vinegar; "Whole Pickled Chillies": Spicy chillies, salt, vinegar; "Bomba Alla Calabrese": hot pepper, olive oil, aubergines, dried tomatoes, garlic, onion, oregano, natural flavors; “Bumba e suveratu”: hot pepper, sunflower oil, aubergines, dried tomatoes, garlic, onion, oregano, natural flavors; "Bomba Serrese Con Miccia": hot pepper, olive oil, aubergines, mixed mushrooms, porcini mushrooms (boletus edulis), dried tomatoes, garlic, onion, oregano, natural flavors; "Viagra Alla Calabrese": hot pepper, sunflower oil; "Bomba Serrese" with chilli olive oil, aubergines, mixed mushrooms, porcini, tomatoes, buckets, garlic, onion, oregano, natural flavors.
Inimitable garlic and dried onion and even porcini mushroom powder! Not to mention the liqueur with porcini mushrooms ... AMARO SERFUNGHI and Certosa with officinal herbs.
So, to color delicious appetizers, to enrich aperitifs and bruschettas, to make unforgettable first and second courses, you just have to be delighted by these simple and natural products, ready to tantalize all palates and to accompany and make dishes unique by bringing unmistakable flavors and aromas on the table.
Here you can taste dishes with unique flavors expertly blended with the ever-present chili pepper, perhaps accompanying them with an excellent glass of local wine. This splendid mix allows you to fully savor the flavors and atmosphere of a bygone age, when the farmers, after spending a day of hard work in the fields, gathered around a table to eat toasting together with the day just spent enjoying at full what were the real pleasures - now forgotten - given by a simple life: friendship and good food.
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