Arancini Recipe | How to Make Sicilian Rice Balls

Arancini recipe, a typical specialty of Sicilian cuisine; a mouth-watering street food, loved all over the world. Arancini are small rice balls, round or cone-shaped, stuffed with meat sauce, peas and caciocavallo cheese, or simply with ham and mozzarella, breaded and then fried. They have a crispy crust that hides a soft and tasty heart which, due to its golden color and shape, bring to mind an orange (it: arancia), hence the name "arancini". Here we'll show you how to make the traditi...

February 18, 2020

Caponata Recipe | Authentic Sicilian Version

Caponata recipe is a simple vegetable stew, an easy recipe for a summer appetizer or a typical Sicilian side dish, made mainly with eggplant, celery, capers, olives, tomato passata (in many recipes you can find tomato concentrate) and finally vinegar and sugar, to give this Sicilian dish the typical sweet and sour taste. These ingredients, already common to other typical Sicilian recipes, such as Pasta alla Norma and eggplant parmigiana, create a mix of aromas, colors and flavors that recalls ...

November 19, 2019

Sicilian Cannoli Recipe

Sicilian Cannoli are the most famous dessert of the Sicilian tradition. Making them at home is not difficult: only a few high quality ingredients and the right tools in the kitchen and you're done! The Sicilian cannoli recipe is ready! Sicilian Cannoli are a greedy pleasure, which combines the crunchiness of the cannoli with the creaminess of the ricotta maybe served with an excellent Passito di Pantelleria wine. But pay attention to the choice of ingredients that must all be of the highest ...

August 31, 2019

Sicilian Almond Cookies Original Recipe

Sicilian Almond Cookies are a famous local dessert typical of Sicily. Soft and tasty, they are fast to make (and to eat...). They are also known as marzipan or almond pastries and are a gluten-free dessert. This recipe is without flour. You need 4 ingredients: peeled almonds, sugar, egg whites and vanilla extract. In some Sicilian Almond Cookies recipes you can find candied orange peel, pureed and added to the mixture (about 50g), and a little honey. We think this recipe is faster ...

January 29, 2017

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Pasta with Eggplant and Swordfish | Paccheri Recipe

Pasta with eggplant and swordfish is a first dish that reminds the fragrances and flavors of Sicily, a magnificent land where there are the finest ingredients and fresh fish. Pasta with eggplant and swordfish is a very hearty dish, nutritious and complete. For this reason, it can be considered a single course. Eggplant and swordfish are classic ingredients of Sicilian cuisine. You can use penne or sedanini pasta. We used Paccheri, a typical pasta of the Neapolitan tradition, that are ...

January 27, 2017

Baked Chicken with Bread Crumbs and Caciocavallo Cheese

Baked Chicken with Bread Crumbs and Caciocavallo Cheese is a Sicilian recipe. In the Sicilian culinary tradition bread crumbs are used in many ways. In fact it's an essential ingredient for many Sicilian dishes such as Pasta with Sardines (Pasta con le Sarde), Pasta with Broccoli (Pasta con i Broccoli in Tegame) or Sarde a Beccafico. Caciocavallo cheese is a typical product of Italian southern regions: it's a hard cheese made of spun paste, round in shape, produced with very fat cow's milk, ...

January 14, 2017