What to Eat in Adrano: Typical Dishes & Local Products

Typical dishes of Adrano

The specialities to try here, and their stories.

Street food PAT

Arancino fried rice cone stuffed with ragù, pointed like Etna

Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo inside a golden cone-shaped crust: in Catania it is masculine and pointed, and the quarrel with Palermo over the name is serious.

First course

Pasta alla Norma pasta with fried aubergine, tomato, basil and salted ricotta

Fried aubergine, tomato sauce, basil and a snowfall of salted ricotta: Catania’s signature dish is named after the opera by Bellini, a native of the city.

Local products of Adrano

What is grown, raised and aged here: PDO, PGI and traditional products.

🌿 Local produce DOP

Pistacchio di Bronte the PDO pistachio of Etna, grown on lava soil between Bronte, Adrano and Biancavilla

Emerald green and known as «green gold»: it grows on the lava slopes of Etna between 400 and 900 metres, is picked by hand every two years and is both PDO and a Slow Food Presidium.