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“A pepper sauce bound to beef marrow and breadcrumbs, served nowhere but alongside bollito misto in Verona.”

Pearà

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Pearà (Veronese dialect term; lit. 'peppered') is a traditional Veronese sauce made with breadcrumbs, beef and hen stock, beef marrow, and black pepper. It is served exclusively together with bollito misto, making lesso e pearà (lesso is Venetian for bollito), a typical dish unique to Verona and its surroundings. It should not be confused with pevarada, a sauce made with chicken livers, with which it only shares the use of pepper.

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Pearà is the pepper-dark soul of Veronese cooking—a sauce built on beef marrow, breadcrumbs, and stock that exists for one purpose alone: to sit alongside bollito misto. The name itself announces its character: peppered, intense, inseparable from the boiled meats it cuts through. This is lesso e pearà, a pairing so rooted in Verona's identity that you'll find it nowhere else quite the same way.

Order it here when it has

  • traditional and regionally unique
  • deliberately paired with bollito misto
  • distinct from similar sauces like pevarada

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