Crescentina is traditional fried bread from Bologna.
Enter Indegno, a chain from Italy with its first London branch at Brick Lane.
There were so many savoury and sweet choices for Cresentina but luckily they have sets which I wasn't aware when ordering.
Anyway, I had the Bolla, The 50 Special and the fried tortellini cone with parmesan cream.
The Bolla and The 50 Special:
The Crescentina fried bread was quite promising because it wasn't oily as anticipated with a firm soft chew texture.
Personally, I liked the Bolla as expected because it was mortadella, crushed pistachios and stracciatella cheese.
The mortadella is similar to sliced ham which was comforting and complemented nicely with the creamy cheese.
The 50 special with porchetta (pork belly) was on the sweet side because of the caramelized onions but the homemade potato croquette was the star, it was silky and sticky.
To summarize the Bolla is recommended but overall, the presentation was a bit sloppy for both compared to the ones on social media and it looked like it was sliced randomly especially the 50 special because one side you can see the filling from the hole. For the Bolla, the pistachios were not visible as they were inside.
Fried tortellini with parmesan cream:
The fried tortellini was a bit disappointing as well as the parmesan cream.
I opted for the parmesan cream because it was the same one used in the Indegno crescentina.
My issue is that the tortellini tasted like those long life dry ones that you can buy in the supermarket.
They were nice and crispy but the filling was a bit dry.
Although some places par boil them before frying so that they are not so dry.
The parmesan cream didn't quite rescue it because it was thick and heavy which didn't really help.
It's like putting thick cream on dry skin when a thinner lotion would be more easily absorbed.
I felt that tomato salsa or some lighter but punchy sauce would make it tastier.
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