If you are a good cooking lover, the wine and food routes are a good idea to spend your free time. An activity you can do through the year. Olbia and the near villages have a rich wine and food tradition and old recipes are passed down from generation to generation.
The gastronomic delights recall both the Sardinian pastoral tradition rich of beef and cheese and the fish-based cuisine of the fishermen tradition.
The farming culture transmits dishes of incomparable taste, like capretto al mirto, zuppa cuata, zuppa gallurese, mazza frissa and semolino fritto that when cooked resembles to the cream.
The most famous Sardinian sweets are Seadas with honey and Tiliccas.
The fish-traditional cuisine is simple but tasty. Olbia is well-known for its cozze that can be eaten uncooked, boiled, with lemon, with tomato sauce and gratin…or better with a superb dish of spaghetti!
Another dish to try absolutely, and that everybody who come to Olbia want to try, it’s definitely the bottarga. To eat as a side dish, as an appetizer or as a sauce for pasta. A typical dish from Olbia without doubt is spaghetti with sea urchin that you will find in the best restaurants of the city. Also you can taste them uncooked in the small taverns of the city center.
If you feel like of a fancy dish you can chose the Ortiadas, a frying of anemone and attinie breaded with bran and rosemary oil. Gives that extra special touch adding some lemon drops. They will be delicious!
Another dish of the Olbia cuisine is the Burrida, stew dogfish dressed with fish livers sauce.
To all these traditional dishes, there are others more elaborate like sea basses and orates, fish soup, cigale, lobster and sea goat.
To enjoy all these tasty dishes you can add a good glass of wine of the surrounding cellars produced by the grapevine of Olbia and in the neighbourhood of Monti, Tempio and Berchidda.
The wine and food routes are the best way to try and taste all these delicacies in company.
