SICILIAN Salads
Introduction to Sicilian Salads
But an unlimited number of combinations are possible by adding to the above ingredients cooked legumes, beans, fava, chick-peas and string beans, or other blanched vegetables like cauliflowers, asparagus, artichokes, potatoes, and zucchini. Salads can also be enriched and became a meal, by adding cheese, eggs, meat or fish.
Sicilian Style TOMATO SALAD
In Sicilian cookery, tomato salad is one of the simplest dishes to prepare and it uses few ingredients; it is an excellent contorno, (side dish), and an exceptional lunch when coupled with oven fresh bread...
caper berries and TOMATO SALAD
This plant is indigenous American and it grew from Mexico to Peru’. The tomato was called tomatl in the Nahuatl language which was spoken by the Aztecs. When America was discovered, the Spanish disseminated the tomato in Spain ...
Lettuce Salad
Salad can be a perfect start to a meal or it can even be a side dish served in concert with a meat or fish dinner. Leaf, Romaine, Butterhead, Crisphead, Iceberg, or any of the many varieties of lettuce makes a good salad...
Vegetables in Vinegar (Giardiniera)
The Giardiniera is made of pickled vegetables; the pickling makes it possible to preserve vegetables in season when they are abundant and conserve them for some time. It is a somewhat complicated proceeding because it requires the preparation of the pickling liquid...
Potato Salad
Nothing is easier to prepare than potato salad. It is liked by almost everybody and it is fulfilling, nutritious and healthy if it is not overloaded with condiments. Potatoes can be prepared without complicated cooking techniques...
Black Olives Salads
Sicily produces a large number of olives and the region is one of Italy’s largest manufacturers of cured olives and of quality olive oil. If you go to La Vucciria in Palermo the olivari ( the sellers of olives) make a display of the olives...
Green Olives Salads
The olive trees are cultivated in the entire Island and many trees are well over a few centuries. The fruits of this tree are mostly pressed into oil but large quantities are processed and eaten pickled...
Eggplants Preserved in Oil
Olives, cheeses, giardiniera, salted anchovies or sardines are a must in a Sicilian pantry and preserved eggplants, garnished with fresh extra virgin olive oil and peperoncino (hot pepper)...
Chickpeas Salad
Because chickpeas grow abundantly in Sicily it was considered staple food for the laborers and the peasants in the countryside. In Sicily, chickpeas are also known in their toasted version and are called calia meaning “toasted”...
Cardoon Salad
Blend together olive oil, vinegar, sugar and pepper. Set aside. Arrange the cardoons in a serving dish and taste for salt, add if needed. Drizzle the dressing over the cardoons. Garnish with parsley and serve at room temperature...
Orange Salad
The soul of Sicilian cooking is synthesized in a very modest and rather common salad prepared, with some variations in the entire Island. Oranges grow abundantly and in many varieties in all parts of Sicily...
Summer Salad Palermitana
Years back, before gas was used to cook, the hearth was heated using wood or charcoal, warming up the kitchen and the whole house, a pleasant feeling in the winter but intolerable in the summer, when the scirocco or sirocco beat down on Sicily...
Tomato Salad
In Sicilian cookery, tomato salad is one of the simplest dishes to prepare and it uses few ingredients; it is an excellent contorno (side dish), and an exceptional lunch, when coupled with oven fresh bread. In the preparation of this recipe the basic ingredients are: ...
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