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Fegato alla veneziana is a signature dish of Italy; we have verified places to eat it in Venice. Calf liver sliced thin and slow-cooked with sweet onions in butter and white wine, the Venetian secondo. Start with where to eat Fegato alla veneziana in Venice.
Calf liver sliced thin and slow-cooked with sweet onions in butter and white wine, the Venetian secondo. Served on grilled polenta bianca, with a sprinkle of parsley. The classic Rialto trattoria plate.
Fegato alla veneziana is the Venetian Republic's answer to the Roman frattaglie tradition: thin-sliced calf liver, melted onions, butter and white wine, served on white polenta. The dish appears in 14th-century Anonimo Veneziano manuscripts, and the onions-and-liver combination was a way to use the offal of the cattle slaughtered for the Republic's salumi trade. The polenta bianca (white corn) is the canonical accompaniment, not yellow. It is still on the menu at every traditional Venetian trattoria from Vini da Gigio to Antiche Carampane.
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