The street food of Palermo: 5 specialties to taste during a holiday

The Palermo cuisine is, literally, one of the most popular attractions in the Sicilian capital city, to absolutely taste during a vacation. But a vacation is also an occasion to see the historic and natural beauties, so you will probably walk a lot. Or you will be comfortably lying on a beach. Both cases are good occasion to taste the (famous) street food of Palermo.

The typical food of Palermo

• Pani câ meusa. While you’ll walk around the city, between a church and a palace, you can taste the famous pani câ meusa: it is a soft loaf with pieces of lung and spleen boiled and cooked with sugna (pork lard).
• Panelle. If you prefer more “classic” specialties, you can pick up the panelle, tasty chickpea flour fritter.
• Sfincione. A bit more fat (but still tasty) could be the sfincione, a sort of pizza with tomato sauce, onion and anchovy.
• Stigghiola. Very popular in Palermo, they are grilled sheep or veal skewers.
• Cazzilli. Fried potato croquettes.

Where to eat the street food of Palermo

The Palermo street food can be found anywhere but if you want to try it and at the same time be immersed in the most “characteristic” atmosphere of the city, then you must visit one of the historical markets, such as Ballarò and Vucciria.

Sicilian street food

Those that we have previously listed are just some of the most famous specialties of the very popular Sicilian street food, a real treasure that can be discovered travelling along the island: arancino, calia and simenza, crocchè and the famous granita complete this real path in the food and wine tradition of the island.

What to eat in Palermo

And, in the same way, the street food is certainly not the only thing to eat in Palermo: there are tasty dishes like caponata and pasta with sardines, which the restaurants of the historic centre of Palermo will make you taste.

What to see

Finally, during this holiday, taste the cuisine of the Sicilian capital city isn’t the only things to do. Because Palermo can offer you:

• Its most beautiful places, that will give you the most unforgettable moments of the holiday;
• Its most beautiful beaches, which will leave you speechless.

How to get

And now, to satisfy your desire to travel and to taste these six authentic specialties, all you have to do is to book a ferry to Palermo.

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