Chiacchietegli di Priverno
Priverno Chiacchietegli Broccoli
A purple sprouting broccoli of the flat country by the Amaseno, delicate in taste, called chiacchietegli locally. Nobody knows where it came from; the growers have handed down the seed and the practice father to son.
Designation
- Certification
- Slow Food Presidium
- Category
- Fruit, vegetables and cereals, fresh or processed
Where it is made
the plain around Priverno, by the Amaseno, Latina province
How it is made
Sown into seedbeds in summer and planted out. The sprouts start just before Christmas, purple and finely branched. The central shoot is cut at the end of January or beginning of February, which sets the plant making laterals, and those are cut in turn before flowering, continuously, so that new ones come, up until Easter.