Sicilian Cuisine

Home made tomato sauce: the recipe

As we tell you in the previous post, the preparation of fresh tomato sauce is a recurring event in summer time that engage the whole family, well the female side at least. Here we reveal the traditional method that Sicilian people use to follow to prepare fresh tomato sauce, so you can learn it and do it by your own....

Home made tomato sauce: a family tra...

We told you many times that Sicily is a land full of curiosities. In fact, summer in Sicily is not only sun, sea, beaches and ice cream. One of the most traditional custom of Sicilian families in summer is the preparation of “buttighi” that litterally means bottles. We are talking about home made tomato sauce preserves according to the most...

Grandmother’s recipes: Sicilia...

Think of a boring afternoon at home and try to make it better using passion and immagination. Ask your grandmother for giving you a hand revealing some cooking secrets of hers. She is a real Sicilian woman and she knows lots of tips and techniques that have been handed down by her ancestors.

In July join the Ice cream fest in P...

Over two hundred masters of icecream making from all over the world will arrive in Palermo between July 23 and 26, the days of the Ice cream festival. The star of the show will be the Italian gelato, of course, created using genuine ingredients coming from all over the country and especially the local Sicilian ingredients; but the event will be also...

Panormvs: the first Palermo street f...

The street food of Palermo is probably the most famous in the world, surely the capital of Sicily is the city that counts more local street recipes than any other. Odd to say but there’s never been in Sicily a festival dedicated only to the street food of the capital. Yet. This weekend if you’re in Sicily, maybe staying right in...

Easter in Sicily between ancient tra...

Easter in Sicily

Piana degli Albanesi (also known as the Plain of the Greeks) is a small hamlet on a mountain plateau in the province of Palermo, that will surprise you by its beauty and tradition. This can be a perfect time to visit it if you are in Sicily, especially if you’re staying in one of our villas in Palermo. Easter is something special for...

A taste of summer: how to prepare th...

Linguine with clams

When summer is long gone, nothing brings our mind back to the warm rocky beaches of Sicily’s Northern coast like a good pasta with sea food. Clams for example are a perfect ingredient, that can be easily found, easy to cook, and delicious to the taste. So today we want to tell you how to prepare a great Sicilian style...

Sicilian traditional recipes: sarde ...

Sarde a beccafico recipe

Today we want to teach you how to cook one of the most savory recipes of Sicilian cuisine, named sardi a beccaficu, the Sicilian way to enjoy sardines.  This dish is one of the symbols of Sicily and it’s truly easy to prepare. You need sardines (800 g) to be cooked with some bay leafs, chili pepper and honey. Prepare a stuffing...

How to cook the perfect Sicilian cap...

Caponata is a famous Sicilian dish: it’s not typical of a specific time of the year, but it’s very often cooked during the Christmas holidays. The queen of the dish is the fried eggplant, seasoned with sweet and sour sauce along with other fried vegetables. There is a basic recipe and many variants, with slightly different names, such as the caponatina, cooked...

St. Lucy’s street food: Decemb...

Let’s start from the classic question: arancino or arancina, male or female? In Eastern and Southern Sicily, in Messina, Catania, Agrigento and so on the most famous Sicilian street food is a pear-shaped guy, while in the capital, Palermo, and in Western Sicily, arancina is a curvy girl, perfectly round if filled with meat, oval if it’s filled with butter and...