Here are 12 classic Easter dishes you're likely to come across at Italian dinner tables, from traditional lamb to an unusual pig's blood dessert.
Lamb: Easter Monday is known as Pasquetta ("Little Easter") in Italy, but is also sometimes called Lunedi dell'Agnello or "Lamb Monday", giving a clue to the most traditional centrepiece of the lunch table. Romans typically prepare lamb soup or cook it in an egg and citrus sauce, southern Italians often put it in a stew, while elsewhere it will be roasted with garlic and rosemary – every family and restaurant will have its own special recipe
