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...
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...
Scialatielli pasta with pistachio pesto. Pistachio pesto is a traditional recipe in Sicily where it is eaten with pasta or used to make arancini. If you’ve never tried it, you really should! (go straight to recipe) The best pistachios come from Bronte. Have you ever heard of a town in Sicily...
Rigatoni alla Norma, a Sicilian Classic Pasta alla Norma is a very simple but tasteful dish, originally from the city of Catania in Sicily. It is usually made with pasta tubes such as rigatoni or penne rigate seasoned with tomato sauce and with the addition of fried eggplant, salted...
