We will always repeat it: a holiday can be considered complete only after having tasted the typical dishes of the destination. Especially during a holiday in Sicily. One of the greatest traditions of the island is, as you surely know, street food. Walking through beaches, parks and monuments, there are ten specialties to taste:
It could be considered the Sicilian street food par excellence. It is a fried rice ball stuffed usually with ragù, peas and caciocavallo, or with cooked ham and mozzarella. But do you really know its exact name?
Depending on the chosen destination, Sicilian pizza can be called sfincione (Palermo), scacciata (Catania), u pituni missinisi (Messina), pizzolo (Syracuse), scaccia (Ragusa). Different from each other but all tasty, we can guarantee it.
That is chickpeas and pumpkin seeds. They are consumed during the main patronal feasts. A so typical specialty that Montalbano, the commissioner born from the pen of Andrea Camilleri, eats it during his passeggiate ruminanti (literally, “ruminant walks”).
It is a sort of fritter made with chickpea flour, characteristic of Palermo street food. The panelle are served in the middle of two slices of bread covered with sesame. Often, they are eaten with crocchè.
The croquettes are a real piece of Sicilian history. A mixture of potatoes, eggs and sometimes cheese to be eaten hot.
If you like strong flavours, here you have. This is the “infamous” brad with the spleen, offered by street vendors who are near the main historical markets (such as Vucciria and Ballarò in Palermo).
Even the stigghiole have a really strong flavour. After all, we are talking about lamb intestines stuck on a spit and roasted. Ah, as if the flavour wasn’t strong enough, the stigghiole are seasoned with parsley and / or onion.
Typical of Palermo but available throughout Sicily, they are potato croquettes. Fried in oil, of course.
Could two of the most typical Sicilian things not be present in this list? In any city in Sicily, you will not struggle to find pastry shops and bars that make “small” versions of cannoli and cassata, to eat while walking.
Even if it is not strictly considered street food, your holiday can’t finish if you don’t taste the real Sicilian granita. Its creaminess is a real mystery. The granita, according to the tradition, should be eaten at breakfast accompanied by a brioche.
Image source: Di Popo le Chien – Opera propria, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74552380
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