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S. Marzano tomato
According to a popular legend, magicians and wizards used the "love apple" to prepare magic and aphrodisiac potions; still today, the golden apple(pomodoro), with its sweet flavour and its numberless varieties, is an appetizing vegetable. A very popular Italian variety is the San Marzano ( D.O.P. product) , a real "gold" fruit which, besides its natural acids, contains 13 vitamins ( among which the A vitamin, a cell regenerating ) and 13 mineral salts ( particularly, iron, necessary in red blood cells) and phosphorus ( important to the nervous system).
The San Marzano tomato is a well known vegetable because of its cultivation which is located in the countryside between Sarno and Nocera Inferiore. Its features are the following: an oblong shape, a hot red colour, a bitter-sweet flavour, few seeds and fibrous parts, which makes this kind of tomato particularly agreeable if tasted crude. Generally, the San Marzano variety is preserved or used as tomato sauce .
The Tomato is seeded in seed-beds in January; afterwards, in April, when the plants reach 20 cm , are transplanted in the ground in the open air or in the hothouses. They are picked up in August and September.
For its peculiarities, the San Marzano tomato is used to season the real Neapolitan pizza or as an ingredient for the preparation of stockfish or the Spaghetti Veraci.
It is advisable to accompany a dish prepared with San Marzano tomato with white or rosèè wine for its balanced flavour: Penisola Sorrentina Bianco, Sant'Agata dei Goti Falanghina, Cilento Bianco, Castel San Lorenzo Rosato, Aglianico del Taburno Rosato.