Arancina fried rice ball stuffed with meat ragù
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo cheese inside a golden crust. Round and feminine in Palermo, pointed and called arancino in Catania: the quarrel is serious.
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Typical dishes of Pantelleria
The specialities to try here, and their stories.
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.
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What is grown, raised and aged here: PDO, PGI and traditional products.
Cappero di Pantelleria the island’s caper buds, picked at dawn and cured in sea salt
Not a fruit but a bud: it is picked before the flower opens, at dawn, and cured under sea salt. On the volcanic island of Pantelleria it has been PGI since 1996.
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