List of Sicilian dishes
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Sicilian caponata
This is a list of Sicilian dishes and foods. Sicilian cuisine shows traces of all the cultures which established themselves on the island of Sicily over the last two millennia.[1] Although its cuisine has a lot in common with Italian cuisine, Sicilian food also has Spanish, Greek and Arab influences.
Contents
Sicilian dishes

Scaccia with tomato and scaccia with ricotta cheese and onion
- Arancini – stuffed rice balls which are coated with breadcrumbs and fried. They are said to have originated in Sicily in the 10th century during Kalbid rule.
- Crocchè
- Cannoli – shortcrust pastry cylinder shell filled with sweet ricotta, mascarpone or chocolate or vanilla cream.
- Frittula
- Likëngë – pork sausages flavored with salt, pepper and seed of Fennel (farë mbrai), made in Piana degli Albanesi and Santa Cristina Gela
- Maccu
- Muffuletta
- Panelle – Sicilian fritters made from gram flour and other ingredients. They are a popular street food in Palermo.
- Pani ca meusa
- Pasta alla Norma
- Pecorino Siciliano
- Pesto alla trapanese – a Sicilian variation of the genoese pesto, typical of the Province of Trapani.[2] The dish was introduced in ancient times by Genoese ships, coming from the east and stopping at the port of Trapani, who brought the tradition of agliata, a sort of pesto-sauce based on garlic and walnuts.
- Scaccia
- Scacciata
- Sicilian pizza – pizza prepared in a manner that originated in Sicily. In the United States, the phrase Sicilian pizza is often synonymous with thick-crust or deep-dish pizza derived from the sicilian Sfincione.[3]
- Stigghiola
- Stuffed eggplant
Beverages
Breads, biscuits and crackers
- Biscotti Regina – a small biscuit coated with sesame seeds, it's also referred to as reginelle
- Vastedda
Cheeses
- Sicilian cheeses
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Straddled forms of caciocavallo hang to mature
Desserts and sweets

A simple cannolo sprinkled with powdered sugar
- Bruccellati – in Sicilian, literally "little bracelets", are uniquely Sicilian fig cookies of a sweet dough rolled out and filled with figs as well as numerous other ingredients.
- Buccellato
- Cannoli
- Cassata
- Ciarduna
- Cioccolato di Modica
- Crocetta of Caltanissetta
- Cuccìa
- Cuccidati
- Frutta martorana
- Gelato
- Gelo di melone
- Giurgiulena
- Granita
- Ice cream
- 'Mpanatigghi
- 'Nzuddi
- Pignolata
- Pignolo (macaroon)
- Rollò
- Spina santa
- Zeppole
- Sicilian desserts and sweets
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Granita di menta (mint granita)
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Crocette of Caltanissetta to lemon and orange left to right
Fruits and vegetables
- Aglio Rosso di Nubia [4]
- Cipolla di Giarratana [5]
- Mazzarrone (grape) [6]
- Pomodoro di Pachino
- Siracusa Lemon
- Sicilian fruits and vegetables
Salads
- Caponata – a Sicilian aubergine (eggplant) dish consisting of a cooked vegetable salad made from chopped fried eggplant and celery seasoned with sweetened vinegar, with capers in a sweet and sour sauce.[7]
- Sicilian orange salad – (Insalata di arance) is a typical salad dish of Sicilian and Spanish cuisine which uses oranges as its main ingredient. It is usually served at the beginning or at the end of a meal.[8]
See also
References
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- ↑ Edward Behr, James MacGuire: The Art of Eating. University of California Press 2011, ISBN 978-0-520-27029-9, p. 102 (online copy, p. 102, at Google Books)