🔊 Listen The typical products of Montallegro’s cuisine are simple and genuine. In fact, the town’s traditional cuisine proposes, as main ingredients, vegetables and wild plants like the wild fennel and the asparagus. The best known traditiona…

🔊 Listen The carne murata is a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, tomatoes and onions. It is a very popular “poor” dish of the Sicilian cuisine. With few and simple ingredients, here’s a rather rich and very tasty dish.  

🔊 Listen The term “guastella” derives from the French “guastel”, which means flat bread, focaccia. In Sicily, it is prepared and stuffed in various ways. In the Agrigento area, including Casteltermini, it identifies a big bread loaf called “v…

🔊 Listen The “mbriulata” or “imbriulata” is a very tasty first course with an ancient and odd history, typical of the Agrigento and Caltanissetta areas. The housewives used to prepare the imbriulata as a single dish for their relatives who we…

🔊 Listen This ancient and tasty food has remote origins. Apparently, its name, Muffuletta, comes from the Saxon word muffin. The muffuletta is stuffed with products, sardines and olives. This dish has been exported to the US, especially to Ne…

🔊 Listen Less ancient but just as much interesting as those of the torrone and of the cannolo, the origins of Caltanissetta’s rollò probably date back to the arrival of the Swiss pastry in Sicily between the end of the 19th Century and, espec…

🔊 Listen Things get a little complex here: taking one of the symbols par excellence of Sicily and assign it to one city only is a daring move. Nevertheless, the best books on food and wine attribute the origin of the cannolo to Caltanissetta,…

🔊 Listen Among the sweets, a special mention goes to the ricotta cheese mixed with sugar until obtaining a delicious cream to fill “li ravioli”, “li cannola” and the beignets. These, made with unsalted dough, are characterised by the final cr…

🔊 Listen In Ravanusa too, the traditional cuisine recalls the poor cooking of the past, which managed to prepare tasty dishes with few ingredients. But a special place is reserved for the dishes of pork meat, like the sausage of pork or mixed…

🔊 Listen The “guasteddi fritti” are excellent sweets. Basically, they are made of deep fried dough decorated with sugar and cinnamon. This recipe has very ancient origins; just think that similar sweets were made at the time of the ancient Ro…

🔊 Listen It is a small portion of territory that you eat when you taste this spinach pie. In it, there is everything that the surrounding countryside can offer: the wheat turned into flour; the olive oil; spinach and cauliflower from the vege…

🔊 Listen The squid’s interior is thoroughly cleaned and stuffed with a mouth-watering mix made with the tentacles, removed, chopped and sautéed, bread and other ingredients.    

🔊 Listen A typical dish of the local culinary tradition, based on fish, is represented by the spaghetti in a black ink sauce (spaghetti al nero di seppia); this sauce is a poor and simple ingredient used by fishermen in the past.  …

🔊 Listen The Mussomeli focaccia, often mistaken for a ‘mbriulata, is a typical dish of this town with ancient origins: in the past, the women prepared it for their husbands and sons who were toiling in the fields all day long, and sometimes f…