A dish from Basilicata of grains of wheat cooked in a ragù of tomatoes and sausages flavoured with garlic.
"Grain in cooked wine." A dessert porridge of wheat grains or berries sweetened with vino cotto and served on the feast of Santa Lucia.
"Pepper grains." Black peppercorns, the fruit of a perennial vine with large leaves and white flowers. Green peppercorns are the unripe fruits picked early and pickled. Black peppercorns are picked just before they ripen and white peppercorns are the ripe, black peppercorns with the black skin flaked off. They are best kept whole and ground when required. Historically, pepper was one of the world's most important spices. Columbus sailed West, not East, in search of pepper in the East Indies. Instead he found the Americas and allspice. Grano di pepe is also a type of pasta.
"Sweet grain." A dessert porridge of wheat grains or berries mixed with walnuts and pomegranate seeds and sweet wine. It may also include chocolate.
Hard grain wheat, providing most flour used for pasta-making and generally milled into semolina. If it is used for bread it should be mixed with other grains and needs to be kneaded a great deal. Grano tenero is soft grain wheat used mainly for baking breads, cakes and biscuits (US: cookies).
"Grains and chickpeas (US: garbanzo beans)." A soup from Basilicata made with barley and chickpeas (US: garbanzo beans), usually with tomatoes and herbs.
