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Typical Products
Products
Sheep farming products, sausages and confectionery are the strong points of local gastronomy.
Specialties:
- La provola of Montalbano (traditional southern cheese), a true dairy product masterpiece.
- Fresh or baked savoury cottage cheese.
- Cold ham and gammon cuts of the black swine from nebrodi area.
- Almond and hazelnut pastry.
- Easter biscuits.
Typical Dishes
Apart from typical dishes of the area there are other delicious specialties to taste at
Hotel Restaurant "Convivio":
Some of them are:
- Maccheroni col buco, bran flour hand-made pasta shaped into very thin tubular forms with rich pork sauce dressing.
- Baked goatling in a wood-burning oven
- Roasted or baked sheep
- Pulse dishes: broad green beans, beans, peas, chickpeas.
- La caponata: a Sicilian dish prepared with fried aubergines, capers, olives and celery with bittersweet seasoning.