Sicilia
Pasta shapes from Sicily
Sicily, officially the Sicilian Region, is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the twenty regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe.
- Shapes
- 3
- With a full profile
- 3
- Families
- short shapes, pastina, hand-formed
- Made by hand
- 1
- Sauces
- 3
- Classic plates
- 9
The cooking of the region
Sicilian cuisine is the style of cooking on the island of Sicily. It shows traces of all cultures that have existed on the island of Sicily over the last two millennia. Although its cuisine has much in common with Italian cuisine, Sicilian food also has Greek, Spanish, Jewish, Tunisian, and Arab influences.
Sauces from Sicily
Norma
vegetable · chunky
Fried eggplant, tomato, ricotta salata, basil. Sicilian. It needs a wide tube or a short shape to carry the eggplant.
Pesto alla trapanese
oil · thin
Almonds, raw tomato, basil, garlic, pecorino. Sicilian pesto. Busiate is its shape; the coil holds the paste.
Broccoli and anchovy
vegetable · medium
Broccoli or cauliflower cooked down with anchovy, garlic, raisins, and pine nuts. Short shapes and small tubes.
3 shapes from Sicily
Anelli
Pastina · Sicily
small thin rings
Busiate
Hand-formed · Sicily
long strip wound around a reed into a loose coil
Casarecce
Short shapes · Sicily
short strip rolled into an S, with a groove down the middle
Classic plates of Sicily
Every dish the shape profiles of this region name, with the shape and, where we have it, the sauce.
- Anelletti al forno alla palermitanaAnelli · Baked (al forno)
- Anellini in brodoAnelli · In brodo
- Busiate al pesto trapaneseBusiate · Pesto alla trapanese
- Busiate alla NormaBusiate · Norma
- Busiate con pesto di pistacchioBusiate
- Casarecce al pesto di pistacchioCasarecce
- Casarecce alla NormaCasarecce · Norma
- Casarecce con salsicciaCasarecce
- Timballo di anellettiAnelli
Sources
- A shape belongs to a region by the origin in its record: the Wikipedia list of pasta, the Wikidata item, and the regional cookbooks named on the shape page.
- Sicily, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q1460.
- Sicilian cuisine, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.