stracciatella

An Italian soup made by dribbling a mixture of Parmesan cheese and beaten egg into hot broth.

Noun

  1. An Italian soup made by dribbling a mixture of Parmesan cheese and beaten egg into hot broth.
    • ‘I had the happy notion of adding an egg,’ Williams shouted back. ‘It poaches in the soup. Not unlike an Italian stracciatella. Singularly toothsome.[…]’ - 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London:...
  2. A type of Italian milk-based ice cream with chocolate shavings.
  3. Any of several types of cheese often pulled into shreds.

    1. (especially) Ellipsis of stracciatella di bufala

Origin

Borrowed from Italian, from stracciare (“to rip, to tear up”), of ultimate Latin origin, due to the aspect.

Forms

stracciatellas