The gastronomy of Acireale
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The kitchen of Acireale is that typical of the Sicilian culinary tradition, with some flat peculiar of the city, famous for his delicious sweets and ice creams.


Some first dishes
  • the Norm
  • the pasta cc´a muddica
  • the pasta cc´u trunzu
  • the pasta cc´u niuru


  • Some second dishes
  • grigliate of fish
  • the masculines (fish)
  • falsomagro (meat)
  • sends away her/it
  • rice´s small oranges
  • the Sicilian pizza


  • The confectionery :-)
  • base sweets of almonds
  • granulated to the nougat
  • real pasta
  • ricotta
  • cannoli
  • cancelled Sicilian
  • The ice creams







  • The Norm

    Seasoned pasta with sauce of tomato, fried eggplants, basil and salty ricotta








    The pasta cc´a mudica

    With toasted bread crumb, oil and anchovies








    The pasta cc´u trunzu

    With the cabbages, intensely cultivated in the Acese








    The pasta cc´u niuru

    With the black of the cuttlefishes united to the juice of tomato.








    Grigliate of mixed fish

    Seasoned with base gravy of oil of olive, lemon, parsley, garlic and pepper or aromatic grasses








    Masculine (fish)

    That is the anchovies cooked in thousand ways (fried, raw and salad, roasts etc.).








    Falsomagro (meat)

    Rollè stuffed with lard, eggs he/she read, cheese, cipolletta, pepper etc. and cooked in the juice of tomato








    Bores her

    Full pizza bread typical of the Christmas parties








    Pizzas to the Sicilian

    Fried and stuffed with tuma and anchovies.








    Real pasta

    You gets forging the marzipan in greedy sculptures by the various forms: fruit, fishes, rag dolls etc.








    Ricotta

    The ricotta, that is a very diffused product in the Acese (where different farmhouses, in the country, they still serve her/it warm, in the serum, to the customers), you/he/she is cleverly worked and used in confectionery - but few in the summer months, because of it perishable - to get dainty cannoli and the inevitable cancelled Sicilian.








    Cannoli








    Cancelled Sicilian








    The Ice creams

    They are famous, thanks above all to the mastery of the pastry cook of the ancient firm Costarelli, that enriches them with whipped cream, fresh fruit, fused chocolate, pistachios and filberts minced etc. and they serve them in great cups which it is a lot of difficulty to withstand, accomplice the magnificent scenery of the plaza of the Cathedral, on which the confectionery, that is destination of a real pilgrimage in the evenings in summer, looks out upon.



    Provincial firm
    Province Catania