Tuscan Wild Boar Stew

Scottiglia di Cinghiale

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Antonio Carluccio Goes Wild: 120 Fresh Recipes for Wild Food from Land and Sea

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2001

  • About

In Tuscany towards the autumn, you will invariably find this dish on the menu in local trattorie, eaten simply with bread as a main course. Scottiglia is a very comforting wild boar stew. In fact, the Tuscans love it so much that in season they freeze parts of the animal so that they can make this stew later in the year - and Italians do not tend to freeze very much. Depending on the age of the boar, it can take some time to tenderise the meat, but a scottiglia is alway