What is "stracciatella"

n. 1 an Italian soup made by dribbling a mixture of cheese and beaten egg into hot broth 2 an Italian ice cream with chocolate shavings

Stracciatella (; in Italian, a diminutive of straccia ("rag" or "shred") meaning "a little shred", coming from the verb "stracciare", to tear; plural, stracciatelle) is a term used for three different types of Italian food:

• Stracciatella (soup), an egg drop soup which is popular in central Italy.
• Stracciatella (ice cream), a gelato variety consisting of milk-based ice cream infused with fine chocolate flakes, inspired by the stracciatella soup.
• Stracciatella di bufala, a variety of soft stretched-curd Italian buffalo cheese made by using a shredding technique, from the Apulia region.

Stracciatella is a variety of gelato, consisting of milk-based ice cream filled with fine, irregular shavings of chocolate. It was originally created in Bergamo, northern Italy, in 1962, and was inspired by the namesake egg and broth soup. It was named as one of the 2013 Top Five Italian Gelato Flavours by Italy Magazine.