Coratella d'agnello sits on Abruzzo's list of traditional gastronomic preparations: lamb offal treated as a dish in its own right, not a scrap to hide. That listing is enough to give the plate a regional home, even before anyone names a feast day.

One Abruzzese account sets that same lamb offal on the Easter breakfast table. It is cooked with onion, herbs and white wine: the onion softening into sweetness, the herbs lifting the steam, the wine cutting through richness with a pale, sharp edge.

Together the two pictures matter. A traditional Abruzzo preparation becomes, in that telling, morning food for Pasqua: a pot of offal, onion, herbs and wine waiting when the day is still young and the table already feels like a celebration.