For the preparation of this lovely pesto we put on the table one of the most used vegetables in the Sicilian cuisine, the zucchini, which, for this recipe, are blended raw without any prior cooking with Ricotta cheese. We will…
The “Treccine” (literally “Braids”) are a typical sweet brioche from the Palermo area. They will always remind us of many childhood memories as they were the typical snack for school or for the afternoon filled with hazelnut cream or jam.…
Castagnole are a typical Carnival dessert, famous throughout Italy, not just in Sicily! They are very tasty, very soft and very fried balls of dough, made with a very simple mixture of flour, eggs and sugar, from which small balls…
The “Gelo di mellone” is a typical Sicilian pudding dessert (very popular especially in Palermo) , whose main ingredient is the watermelon, which in Sicilian dialect is called “mellone” or “muluni”.
Sicilian Sarsa alla Grillo is an authentic Sicilian family recipe for a meatless, quick tomato sauce for pasta that always pleases the palate and fills the senses.
The chiacchiere are a typical Carnival sweet that we can find all over Italy under different names: cròstoli, galani, frappe, bugie, and many more! The main characteristic of the sweet is to be very thin, crumbly, full of bubbles and…
Diffused typically in the northwestern part of the island, “u ‘sfinciuni” is one of the most important Sicilian culinary specialities. It can be served as an appetizer on a family evening, or as a main course in place of the pizza! This…
The eggplant parmigiana – or Parmigiana di Melanzane – is one of the most typical Sicilian recipes, whose name probably derives from the word “parmiciana” which indicates the wooden strips that make up a Persian blind which recalls the layered arrangement of…
The pizza itself is not a Sicilian dish, but the way that the Sicilian bakeries are making the dough and putting the topping is unique and very different in comparison to other parts of Italy and of course the rest of…
