Spaccatelle pasta with Sicilian sun-dried tomato pesto and burrata. Apart from the addition of burrata, this spaccatelle pasta with sun-dried tomato pesto recipe is a very typical Sicilian dish. There are a number of Sicilian pesto recipes including pistachio pesto and pesto Trapanese...
Spaccatelle pasta from Sicily. Spaccatelle or spaccatella is a traditional usually dried pasta from Sicily, which is not so widely known in other parts of the Italian peninsula. A fact I find quite strange because apart from being a fantastic pasta to serve either with vegetable based sauces or...
Paccheri with porcini, speck and pistachio! Whilst on holiday in Sicily recently, I came home with a number of culinary goodies and types of pasta. One of the types of pasta was a wonderful artisan paccheri, which actually looked quite different to the dried paccheri I have bought in the...
Busiate pasta with bottarga, almonds and prawns; a recipe from Sicily. Sicilian seafood pasta doesn’t get much better than this busiate pasta with bottarga, almonds and prawns from Trapani. The sweetness of the Mazara prawns and almonds, combined with the salty taste of the bottarga and...
Busiate pasta with Trapanese pesto from Trapani During our recent holiday in Sicily we got to try quite a number of delicious Sicilian pasta dishes including this tasty Trapanese pesto, which is mostly eaten in the province of Trapani in the Western corner of Sicily. There are a number of...
Cavatelli Pasta from Southern Italy. Rather similar looking to Sardinian gnocchi (malloreddus), cavatelli pasta are originally from the Molise and Pulia regions, but popular throughout Southern Italy and traditional today in Abruzzo, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily. Each of these...
