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| Sweets | | | Almond Pastry, Rametti, Buccellati
Almond pastry is the common base for many of the traditional sweets of Nebrodi, characterized by a surprising variety. It is used, adding chocolate, fruit, or dried figs, also to fill the so-called "covered royal pastry", a sort of round big ravioli. Buccellati are filled with figs, walnuts, pine nuts, orange peel, and cinnammon. The so-called rametti or ramette are white almond or hazelnut biscu... >> | |
| Cheese | PAT | | Canestrato
Cheese prepared with mixed cow's and goat's milk. Milk is heated at a temperature of 37°C, put into a wooden tub, mixed with rennet texture, and poured into rush baskets giving a particular shape to the cheese. Cheese is then pressed by hand, sometimes adding pepper grains or chili pepper flakes. Afterwards, the curd is heated at a temperature of 80°C and dried on wooden boards. T... >> | |
| Cheese |  | | Maiorchino
It is a cylindrical cheese round with a weight going from 10 to 18 kilos. It is one of the biggest pecorino cheese produced in Italy and probably dates back to the 17th century. It is a top-quality cheese ideal for long maturation periods. It is produced in small quantities from February to the second decade of June, processing sheep's raw milk and adding about the 30% of goat's milk, as w... >> | |
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| Nebrodi Provola
It is a traditional Sicilian cheese prepared by the cheese-makers of Nebrodi Mountains according to traditional methods handed down from father to son. It is usually produced in small rounds (from 1 to 1.5 kilos), although some producers choose to make bigger rounds, more suitable for a longer maturation process. It is egg-shaped, with the classical small head of caciocavalli (used to tie the roun... >> | |
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| Ricotta
Ricotta is a dairy product widespread all over Sicily, where it is used to prepare many dishes. However, in Nebrodi Mountains it enjoys a sort of a blaze of biodiversity. As a matter of fact, in this area it is still produced as it was at the times of Homer, that is adding fig milk. Cheese-makers have their reference trees from which they take off the small branches they directly soak into the whe... >> | |
| Fruit | | | Nebrodi Strawberries and Berries
Strawberries, wild strawberries, bilberries, raspberries, blackberries, white and red currants are cultivated in Nebrodi Mountains in spring - summer. These fruits are very rich in vitamins and other properties: they have always spontaneously grown in the woodlands and, for about ten years, they are cultivated outdoor. Berries, strawberries, and wild strawberries represent an excellent niche prod... >> | |
| Honey | | | Nebrodi Honey
Nebrodi are characterized by an extraordinary and unique variety of plants and trees: it is enough to say that in only 30 minutes you can pass from the sea level to 1,500m of height. Practicing both a nomadic and resident beekeeping, it is possible to produce top-quality honey using diversified "pastures", including citrus fruits, chestnut trees, acacia, eucalyptus, fruit trees in general, and the... >> | |
| Oil |  | | Valdemone Extra-virgin Olive Oil PDO
Valdemone is obtained from the oil of three main cultivars: Ogliarola Messinese, Santagatese, and Minuta. The oil is clear or slightly opaque, with a green color and golden shades. The fragrance recalls new-harvested olives and is completed by notes of herbs, leaves, and flowers of the spontaneous plants growing in the area. The taste of fresh olives is surrounded by a bitter contrast and the afte... >> | |
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| Nebrodi Hazelnut
As a consequence of the crisis of mulberry farming, around 1890 the slopes of the middle and high hills were interested by the diffusion of another protagonist of Nebrodi rural landscape: the hazelnut tree. Already cultivated in the past in the territory of Tortorici, thanks to its adaptation skills, its very thick roots preventing soil erosion, and its productivity this cultivation successfully r... >> | |
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| Nebrodi Black Pig
Nebrodi Black Pig is a small-size pork with a dark coat, very similar to the wild boar. It lives in Nebrodi forests and is bred
in a semi-wild state in large areas used as pastures: only near the delivery their diet is integrated. Frugal and resistant, this breed has recently undergone a reduction in the number of heads (at the moment, approximately two thousands). Its extinction would represent... >> | |
