Traditional food of Sicily: 10 dishes

• Arancini arancini / arancine · Street food · Sicily (Palermo and Catania)

  Arancini are balls or cones of rice, stuffed, breaded and deep-fried.

• Cannoli · Dessert · Palermo

  Cannoli are tubes of crisp fried pastry filled with sweetened sheep's milk ricotta, often with chocolate, candied fruit or pistachio at the ends.

• Pasta alla Norma · Noodles & pasta · Catania

  Pasta alla Norma is pasta with tomato sauce, fried aubergine, basil and grated ricotta salata.

• Caponata · Main dish · Sicily

  Caponata is a sweet-and-sour stew of fried aubergine, celery, onion, tomato, olives and capers, finished with vinegar and sugar, an agrodolce flavour that Sicilians link to the island's Arab past.

• Cassata siciliana · Dessert · Palermo

  Cassata siciliana is a cake of sponge soaked in liqueur, layered with sweetened sheep's milk ricotta, chocolate and candied fruit, covered in green marzipan and white icing, and decorated with colourful candied fruit.

• Pani câ meusa pani câ mèusa · Street food · Palermo

  Pani câ meusa is Palermo's spleen sandwich: slices of veal spleen and lung, boiled and then fried in lard, piled into a soft sesame bun called a vastedda.

• Granita with brioche granita e brioscia · Dessert · Catania and Messina

  Granita is a Sicilian frozen dessert of water, sugar and fruit juice or coffee, stirred while it freezes so that it forms fine crystals.

• Sfincione sfinciuni · Bread & pastry · Palermo

  Sfincione is Palermo's thick pizza: a soft, spongy dough topped with tomato sauce cooked with onions and anchovies, caciocavallo cheese, oregano and breadcrumbs.

• Pasta con le sarde pasta chî sardi · Noodles & pasta · Palermo

  Pasta con le sarde is a pasta dish from Palermo with fresh sardines, wild fennel, salted anchovies, raisins, pine nuts and saffron, topped with toasted breadcrumbs instead of cheese.

• Cùscusu trapanese cùscusu · Main dish · Trapani

  Cùscusu trapanese is fish couscous from Trapani, on the western tip of Sicily.

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