{"id":63215,"date":"2022-05-06T22:27:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/?p=63215"},"modified":"2023-12-13T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:17:04","slug":"sicily-street-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/sicily-street-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Sicily Street Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Where to start? <a href=\"\/en\/?p=364\"><strong>Palermo<\/strong><\/a> is one of the places with the best street food in the world (5th place, according to the Virtual Tourist chart ). To get a taste of it, head to the historic markets: <strong>Vucciria, <\/strong><strong>Ballar\u00f2, il Capo and Borgo Vecchio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can find everything: <a href=\"\/en\/?p=17653\"><strong>pani c\u00e2 meusa<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>frittula<\/strong> (veal offal), <strong>stigghiole<\/strong> (skewered and roasted lamb guts), muccuna (boiled murexes or sea morsels), cicireddu (fried whitebait<br \/>\nfish), <strong>purpu<\/strong> (boiled octopus), <strong>rizzi<\/strong> (sea urchins), <strong>babbaluci<\/strong> ( boiled and seasoned snails).<\/p>\n<p>But you can also choose from a wide range of vegetarian dishes: <a href=\"\/en\/?p=2899\"><strong>pane, panelle e crocch\u00e8<\/strong><\/a> ( bread, fritters and croquettes), <strong>pollanche<\/strong> (boiled corn on the cob), <a href=\"\/en\/?p=26116\"><strong>carduna<\/strong><\/a> cardoons fried in batter, <strong>pipittuna<\/strong> (sliced citrons served with salt), <strong>muluni<\/strong> (sliced watermelon) and <strong>ficurinnia <\/strong>(prickly pears). The tour of the <a href=\"\/en\/?p=47837\"><strong>vegetarian cuisine of Sicily<\/strong><\/a> has just begun!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to try the Sicilian street food par excellence: <a href=\"\/en\/?p=3375\"><strong>Arancin<\/strong><\/a>&#8230; The name divides Sicily in two, but the taste brings everyone together. It opens the way to the parallel universe of the deli. The bolognese, the bomba, the cartocciata, the cipollina ( rustics from Catania), the pitone or pidone &#8211; in this case pronunciation doesn&#8217;t cause a diplomatic crisis &#8211; from Messina. And then there are the <strong>crispelle<\/strong> from Catania, made of fried batter and stuffed with <strong>anchovies or ricotta cheese<\/strong>. It also exists a sweet version: the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/ricetta\/zeppole-riso-rice-pancakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rice<\/strong> <strong>zeppole <\/strong><\/a><\/em>or the <a href=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/ricetta\/sfinci-di-ricotta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>sfinci with ricotta cheese.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"\/en\/?p=358\"><strong>Catania<\/strong><\/a>, on the other hand, it is called scacciata. But Catania&#8217;s street food deserves a special mention. To discover it, we have to go between <strong>Piazza Pardo<\/strong> and <strong>Piazza Alonzo di Benedetto<\/strong>, where we find the old fish market. Here the seafood has to pass the &#8220;lemon test&#8221;. It should be eaten raw with the &#8216;fishermen&#8217;s snack&#8217;, <em>u mauru<\/em>, a red seaweed with a strong flavour. Its presence in the waters indicates that there is no pollution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Via Plebiscito<\/strong> is the perfect place to eat another speciality from Catania: the <strong>sandwich<\/strong> filled with grilled horse meat seasoned with oil, salt and parsley.<\/p>\n<p>Both in summer and winter, the patronal feasts in Sicily draw in the <em>caliari<\/em>, ready to sell to passersby <strong>calia e simenza<\/strong> ( chickpeas and roasted pumpkin seeds, famous all over the world thanks to the \u201cruminant walks\u201d of Montalbano Commissioner). This is the case of the feasts of <strong>Saint Calogero<\/strong> in <a href=\"\/en\/?p=12751\"><strong>Agrigento<\/strong><\/a>, of <strong>Saint Agatha<\/strong> in <a href=\"\/en\/?p=3828\"><strong>Catania<\/strong><\/a>, of <strong>Saint Lucia<\/strong> in <a href=\"\/en\/?p=10787\"><strong>Syracuse<\/strong><\/a>, of <strong>Saint Rosalia<\/strong> in <a href=\"\/en\/?p=3386\"><strong>Palermo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In autumn, instead, we can smell the scent of caldarroste, the salted chestnuts roasted at the corners of the streets.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what: eat your street food and keep walking. That&#8217;s the best way to enjoy Sicily.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":51970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1928,1924],"tags":[],"luogo":[1862,1864,1859,1865,1866],"stagione":[1877,1876],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sicily Street Food - Visit Sicily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sicily Street Food - Visit Sicily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/sicily-street-food\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Visit Sicily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/visitsicily.info\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-06T20:27:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-13T15:17:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2.arancini-scacciate-1-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"l.menconi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@VisitSicilyOP\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@VisitSicilyOP\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"l.menconi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/sicily-street-food\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/sicily-street-food\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"l.menconi\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/1a99cc56fe7939a769f7de2cd7a198d4\"},\"headline\":\"Sicily Street Food\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-06T20:27:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-13T15:17:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/sicily-street-food\/\"},\"wordCount\":691,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Territory\",\"Unmissable flavors\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/sicily-street-food\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/sicily-street-food\/\",\"name\":\"Sicily Street Food - 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