The dough product in Istria are very popular. Holidays, parties or other similar ocasions are unthinkable without tipical istrian dough products. Housewives' fanciful cooking and meal serving covered the poverty and shortage of ingredients. So they prepared meals from seasonal products, cultivated or found in nature, or they added plenty of ingredients to essential foodstuff, available in their rural household. Sunday, as every other holiday or a banquet, was always accompanied by the Istrian dried ham (homemade prosciutto or pršut) and cheese, served as a starter. The chicken soup was followed by sauerkrauts, which was followed by fuži, gnocchi and ravioli.

The basic ingredients for the istrian dough are flour, eggs, salt and water.
The typical istrian dough products are:
1. Fuži: specific and most popular istrian dough made with basic ingredients covered with meat sauce.
2. Njoki (gnocchi): very popular in Istria. Originally gnocchi are served with meat sauce from deer, rabbit or boar.
3. makaruni: very simple and tasty type of istrian dough made of salt, flour and water.
4. ravioli: very tasty type of istrian dough stuffed with istrian cow cheese, istrian ham and pieces of eggs. They are served with meat or non-meat sauce.