Frittelle di Riso di San Giuseppe Viterbesi

Viterbo St Joseph’s Day Rice Fritters

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

  • About

The city of Viterbo, in the region of Lazio, is where this delicious recipe was first officially created in the 1830s. It lies in the land of Tuscia, which covers an area from the walls of Rome, across the province of Viterbo and all the way to parts of Tuscany and Umbria as far as the sea. It is a historical region of Italy that comprised all the territories under Etruscan influence and Tuscia was the name adopted for Etruria after the Roman conquest. These crispy, deliciously sweet fritte