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Sicilian breading: you should always have an escort – Italian Cuisine

A breadcrumb with an unmistakable aroma, to be used in a thousand different ways to bring some Sicilian air into our homes

The scent of this one breading it is also a little the scent of Sicily. After all, one of the iconic dishes of Sicilian cuisine is precisely the ca'muddica pasta, that can be declined in many different recipes with an irresistible detail that unites them: the bread crumbs. It is not just a final touch to be given to the spaghetti dish, but a simple idea to be exploited with a lot of imagination.

This flavored breadcrumbs is also a symbol oflove: Claudia from Sciacca, in the province of Agrigento, sends ready-made bags to her daughter Sofia, who lives in Milan. You can to preserve and to pull out in the most opportune moment: it takes just a little to transform simple ingredients and savor a bit of Sicily. Claudia was our mother too, telling us about her recipe.

The Sicilian breading recipe

To prepare this breading you need the following ingredients: bread, garlic, wild fennel, caciocavallo, parsley, salt and pepper. The ideal is to recover the stale bread: once hard, it must be grated and combined with parsley chopped, thegarlic reduced to small pieces, the cheese grated and finally seasoned with salt and pepper. There is no need to weigh, you can go to the eye, even according to your preferences. It can be prepared in abundance, as it is possible freeze and keep it as an escort.

How to use Sicilian breading in the kitchen

This Sicilian breading is suitable for many different preparations: you can use it first for breading e to fry the classics cutlets, le vegetables, le meatballs and omelettes.
If you don't prefer frying, you can use breading also for to roast the chosen ingredient. A very simple one grilled chicken breast can become really greedy: before roasting, it will be enough to pass the slice in the oil and then in the breading.
Rolls, zucchini is sliced aubergines, stuffed tomatoes… the possibilities are endless! Toasting in the pan or baking in the oven, the breading will give off an aroma that will make your mouth water.

You can also prepare simple ones meatballs: beat the eggs and mix them with the breadcrumbs, add a little milk if the mixture is too dry, take a tablespoon of the mixture and fry the meatballs in the boiling oil.

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Sicilian dinner, recipes and tips – Italian Cuisine

Follow the advice of our chefs and amaze your guests with the colors and scents of a wonderful land: Sicily

For a summer evening not to be forgotten, we recommend preparing one Sicilian dinner, that spaces from classic recipes to more innovative ones. The inspiration we took from the dinner held at The School of Italian Cuisine Wednesday 17 July.
The chef Davide Negri has prepared a menu dedicated to Sicily: if you are curious, look at the pictures in the gallery. To take inspiration from the recipes, read our tips below!

Fresh fish appetizer

To start the dinner, prepare a fresh dish and dare with unusual combinations: red prawn tartare with ice cream a almond milk of Noto. In making this recipe you can reuse some set off, which normally come discarded: you can prepare a sauce to dress the tartare, blending and filtering some shrimp heads. The taste will be more complete and at the same time delicate.
More heads of shrimpinstead, after having cleaned and dried them carefully, you can pass them in cornstarch and fry them, until they are very crunchy; the advice to make them even more crispy is to keep them for 4-5 hours in the oven at about 80 ° C. They will be an excellent decoration for the final dish.

First Sicilian classic

For the first course, opt for a classic preparation, respecting the Sicilian tradition. The sauce to the Standard it is, in fact, one of the symbols of Sicilian culture: prepare a fresh tomato sauce and plenty of basil; fry the aubergines, previously cut into cubes, in abundant hot oil. Cook the pasta and, after cooking, season with the sauce; finally garnish with aubergines and grated salted ricotta. Keep the various components separate, so that the flavors are well defined when tasting.
You can choose to use the busiate, as a type of pasta, as typical of the area of Trapani. The name derives from the busa, a grass that grows on arid and sandy soils; originally this was used as a support to realize the typical form of busiate.

Second course with quality ingredients

For the second course, focus on the quality of the raw material: choose a fillet of bluefin tuna and enrich it with a fanciful one breading to pistachios. The consistency and flavor will be enriched with fat, which this animal accumulates as a defense, to survive the low temperatures of the seas in which it lives.
To obtain slices from the fillet, proceed with the horizontal cut; then brush the slices with egg white, so that, when you pass them through the chopped pistachios, they adhere well. Finish cooking in a pan with a drizzle of oil, browning the outside and leaving the inside raw. Portions sliced, only after browning. You can serve tuna with a light one zucchini cream and enrich it all with fried zucchini flowers.

Classic desserts

For dessert, choose the great classics of Sicilian pastry, such as cassata, granita and cannoli. To fill the cannoli you can prepare the classic stuffing or add candied orange cubes and a little lemon juice to the inside: the result will amaze you with its freshness!

The School of Italian Cuisine thus continues a series of events, dedicated to specific and structured topics such as dinners. The next one in the calendar is scheduled forSept. 11 and the theme will be Fish: for booking click here!

Texts by Caterina Limido

Back to Menfi Inycon, the oldest Sicilian wine show – Italian Cuisine

Begins Friday Inycon 2019, the oldest review of Menfi wines, to learn about the products of the vine but also to appreciate all that this wonderful land has to offer

They could only be the vestiges of ancient Greece to welcome in the territory of Menfi Inycon 2019, the oldest review of wine in Sicily. The town in the province of Agrigento, the home town of the most exciting Greek architectural memories, will live a dense moment of culture, art, wine and food, starting from Friday 21 June until Sunday 23. What better time than the summer solstice for celebrate quality viticulture but also culinary excellence, art, culture and music? In Menfi, producers, writers, artists and farmers will take turns in the three-day event to show the public the best of this lucky corner of Sicily. "The great protagonists of Inycon 2019 – explains Mayor Marilena Mauceri – will be the districts of Menfi, custodians of the tradition, hospitality and culture of these lands where peasant wisdom, developed through technological innovation, has reached levels of excellence in the wine and agri-food sectors. Inycon 2019 will be a great collective party that will see all the people of the Contrada gathered together to celebrate and share with the public beauty of this happy corner of Sicily, whose most authentic expression is represented by the peasant community, the faces of the country people and its food and wine products ".

Wine, land, sea

Wine tasting, theater performances, debates and conferences on sustainability of the reception of Menfi will be the unmissable events of this three days in which all knowing how to do this corner of Sicily will be laid bare. As stated by Nadia Curreri, Councilor for Tourism, Sport and Culture, Productive Activities and Crafts of the Municipality of Menfi “We are very proud of the program of the new edition of Inycon. After more than twenty years, in fact, the event has entered the calendar of summer Italian tourist events not to be missed, so much so as to be a powerful and effective territorial marketing tool that sees the whole community cohesive to reach a common goal: to illuminate and to make visible all the merits of the Menfitana identity and its territory ".

Virtuous example

The payoff "Memphis and the colors of his land" accompanies the logo of Inycon 2019 and contains the new vision of the event that is proposed as model of virtuous tourism and fly for the entire economy of the territory. A center to which all the virtuous actions that make Menfi and its lands an irremissible experience to live not only in the summer, but in every season of the year, converge and then radiate.

Inycon – Memphis and the colors of its land (21/23 June 2019) For the detailed program: inyconsicilia.it