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Cavit Italian Holiday

Celebrate like an Italian

Warning: your holiday parties will never be the same. Our favorite Nonnas are sharing their family recipes in a free cooking class – best served with a glass of Cavit.

  • 48 min class
  • 2 family recipes
  • Paired with Cavit
Nonna and the class host raise glasses of Cavit wine over a table of cannelloni and bruschetta in a festive Italian kitchen.

Fabulous, fun & festive

An Italian holiday at your table

Fabulous, fun, and festive Nonnas are sharing their family recipes! Cavit invites you to join our favorite Italian Nonnas for a one-of-a-kind cooking experience for you, friends, and family to gather around.

  1. Watch the class, freeStream it here or save it to cook along any time.
  2. Shop the listDownload the ingredient checklist for bruschetta and meat cannelloni.
  3. Go live with a NonnaBook a live Nonna’s class and save 15% with code WELOVECAVIT.
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Ingredient list
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Live Nonna’s class
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The free class · 48 min

Cook along with Nonna

Fresh pasta by hand, a slow-simmered ragù, and two homemade pestos, taught step by step in Nonna’s kitchen. Pause, rewind, and pour as you go.

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Save the class MP4 · 1.8 GB Ingredient list PDF · 300 KB

Every ingredient is also listed below, so you can follow along without sound.

On the menu · serves 2

Two family recipes, two perfect pours

Everything you need for the class. Tick it off at the store, or download the printable list (PDF).

Toasted bruschetta topped with tomatoes, basil pesto and pistachio pesto beside marble mortars of fresh pesto.

Paired with Cavit Pinot Grigio

Bruschetta with Homemade Pestos

Serves 2

Crisp, citrusy Pinot Grigio keeps the basil bright and lets the pistachio shine.

For the bruschetta

  • 1 rustic loaf or ciabatta
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 garlic clove (for rubbing the toasted bread)
  • Fine salt

Classic basil pesto

  • Fresh basil leaves
  • Pine nuts
  • Parmigiano Reggiano
  • Pecorino Romano
  • Garlic
  • Extra virgin olive oil

Pistachio pesto

  • Unsalted pistachios
  • Pecorino Romano
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • Coarse salt
A baking dish of meat cannelloni under tomato passata and Parmigiano, next to a pot of sauce and fresh mozzarella.

Paired with Cavit Pinot Noir

Meat Cannelloni

Serves 2

Silky, red-berry Pinot Noir is made for slow-simmered ragù and melting mozzarella.

For the pasta & filling

  • 200g “00” flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 200g ground meat (a mix of veal, beef and pork is ideal)
  • 50g mortadella (optional)
  • 6 tablespoons grated Parmigiano Reggiano
  • 1 cup milk
  • ¼ onion
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 celery stalk
  • 1 bottle tomato passata
  • Fresh mozzarella
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • Fine salt
  • Coarse salt

Inside Nonna’s kitchen

Nonna smiles as she works flour into fresh pasta dough while the class host laughs beside her, with bottles of Cavit on the counter.
Start with a well of flour200g of “00” flour and two eggs. Nonna does the rest by hand.
The host holds up a thin, translucent strip of fresh pasta as Nonna looks on approvingly.
Roll it thinThin enough to see the light through it, Nonna’s rule.
Nonna rolls ragù filling into pasta sheets and lines the cannelloni up in a baking dish.
Fill, roll, and bakeNestled in passata and topped with mozzarella.

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Nonna holds a bottle of Cavit Pinot Noir and the host holds Cavit Pinot Grigio behind the finished cannelloni and bruschetta.

Best served with a glass of Cavit

Pour the pairing

  • Cavit Pinot GrigioWith the bruschetta and homemade pestos.
  • Cavit Pinot NoirWith the meat cannelloni.