Meats

Meat Recipes

Since I can remember, my Aunt Francesca, who lived in our home, was in charge of all the food shopping. Every day she would spend part of the afternoon shopping at Vucciria, Palermo’s most famous open food market, ..

Meatballs

Meatballs are made all over the world with no precise recipes, everyone has their own way to prepare, cook and serve them. Meatballs were born to make edible and to utilize tough meat from adult and working animals ..

Rolled Meat Farsumagru

This delicious and much celebrated Sicilian dish is very popular and is cooked all over Sicily. There are variations in the stuffing and on the way of cooking it, accordingly to the province or even the neighborhood where it is made ..

Tripe in Tomato Sauce with Peas

Because to clean and prepare the tripe required a tedious and long process, it was a very inexpensive part of the interiors of beef, pork or lamb, and used for food by the poor people or cooked in first-class restaurants for their ..

Trippa Olivetana Tripe

The Church of Saint John of the Hermits is one of the most famous landmarks in Palermo. It was built in the Arabic-Norman style. It has single nave surmounted by five picturesque cupolas in vivid red color ..

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Tripe Salad Trippa Insalata

Tripe salad is a fast way to serve it. I sampled it in popular “osterie”, a place similar to a wine bar and I’ve enjoyed it on many occasions.

Cutlets of Veal, Chicken, Pork or Turkey

The cutlet is a thin slice of meat about a quarter of an inch thick which is fried in oil after being dredged into flour, dipped in eggs, rolled into breadcrumbs and then sautéed in hot oil. Cutlets can be made from the boneless leg of veal, ..

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Scaloppine Mushrooms Marsala

Scaloppina is the diminutive of the word scaloppa, from the English scallop and it describes a thin slice of meat quickly sautéed and sprinkled with a liquid, usually with alcohol and sometimes adding a vegetable, like mushrooms or peas, ..

Rolled Meat Bracioli

This dish is prepared in all the regional cuisines, not only in Italy but all over the world. The various fillings and different cooking techniques give to the rolled meat special characteristics and ..

Baked Chicken

At Joe’s of Avenue U the “specials of the day” were a stimulating episode in our everyday cooking because it challenged me and the team of our faithful employees to suggest, research and sometimes ..

Chicken with Lemon

My niece Marzia Greco-Fiorilla who lives in Vittoria in the province of Ragusa sent the following recipe. She prepares “Pollo al Limone” because “viene molto buono”, it is mouth-watering and when ..

Chicken in Wine Sauce

Before World War II and until 1960, chickens were not so popular in Palermo, due to the high price. In my family, chickens were served on holidays or on very special occasions or boiled to cure a cold ..

Chicken Breast Tomatoes & Capers

The tender and light meat of the breast of chicken combines well with a simple lightly garlicky tomato sauce reinforced by the pungent taste of the capers, balanced by the sweetness of the onions and ..

Piccata Style - Chicken,Veal, Pork, or Turkey

Anybody with little cooking skills can prepare this dish with professional results. The original piccata is a thin slice of meat quickly sautéed and sprinkled with fresh lemon juice. The word “piccata” means to prick, ..

Sausages with Peppers and Onions

“Sausage with Peppers and Onions” is not an easy dish to find on Sicilian tables or in restaurants’ menus in Italy. A Neapolitan dish, the “Salsicce and Friggitelli, also known as Friarelli”, ..

Braised Sausages Cauliflower

In Catania, the quality of the meat used to make sausages is different and typical, deriving from the farmers practice to rear the pigs, the variety of grazing, centuries of experience and the pride to produce ..

Baked Sausages Squash Papillote

This dish requires greased parchment paper or aluminum foil, and a barbeque or an oven. In Syracuse, the type of sausage used in this recipe is usually made in a smaller casing and is stuffed with local pork meat ..

Homemade Sausage Recipe

The basic Sicilian style sausages are made with ground pork meat, fennel seeds, salt and pepper; then to add more flavor and taste, cheese and wine are added. In addition, In Palermo, the Salsiccia Condita, seasoned ..

Pig Skins in Tomato Sauce

Rolled pork skin is a tasty piatto unico, one course meal, usually prepared on Sundays. The cotenne are stuffed with breadcrumbs, onion, garlic, pinoli, parsley, cheese and olive oil and cooked in tomato sauce ..

Braised Pork with Lemon

The delicious and much celebrated dish particularly popular in Palermo, called Farsumagru, which literally means false (deceptive) lean (as meager, poor), is in fact to the contrary, a rich and great tasting festive food...

Rabbit with Tomato sauce

The white and tender meat of the rabbit combines well with tomato sauce, and it is a very well accepted recipe because the simple and delicious sauce goes well with pasta, to make a swift and convenient dinner...

rabbit stimpiratu

Wild and domestic rabbits are abundant in the province of Syracuse and they are a popular and much sought-after dish because it’s a low cholesterol meat, it has a mild taste and it is easy to digest.This Syracuse’s recipe called stimpiratu makes use of ...