Multi-sensory experience discovering the processing of cheeses from the "cinisara cow" (Slow Food presidium).Caciocavallo palermitano, fresh caciotta and ricotta are made from the milk of the cinisara cow. And it is precisely the caciocavallo palermitano that manages to make the most of the extraordinary peculiarities of this milk, scarce in quantity, but very fat and rich in aromas due to the forage essences typical of the scrubland of the area of origin. Pasta filata caci ages in cool, natural rooms placed on wooden boards. After a year of maturation, the caciocavallo shows notes of citrus, sage and dry hay on the nose, while in the mouth it is persuasive and long, with a slightly spicy finish.

Tour in the cheese production of the Cinisara cow

You will come to taste some of the delicacies of my land. In the preparation I will explain the history of the ancient recipes that we are going to prepare together. You will be greeted by my grandmother who is the one who passed on my passion for cooking and taught me many recipes especially the oldest ones! Thanks to her I became a chef!

Smells and tastes of my land: Sicily

Explore the main markets and alleys of downtown Palermo with a local food expert. Discover the places most beloved by locals for an immersive culinary experience.Arancini are easily found around the streets of the city, but there is only one place that still makes them using the age-old recipe-you'll find out on this tour. We will select for you various samples of traditional street food:you will try bread with panelle and crocchè,ravazzata, fried calzone, and a challenging sandwich with offal and cheese. All tours end with a seasonal dessert (cannolo/sicilian granita/ice cream).

Food and wine experience among Palermo's markets

Do you want to learn the main first courses of my Sicily? Then you will be most welcome! You will have the opportunity to learn ancient Sicilian recipes handed down for centuries by entire generations. You will be the one to prepare the various pasta shapes and sauces that will result in fantastic dishes!

Sicilian Fresh Pasta

Terrasini

Salvatore

Palermo

Velia

Good morning I'm Velia.In this cooking class we will learn how to make traditional recipes of Italian gastronomy using fresh and seasonal products.At the end of the course we will be able to sit at the table and eat what we have prepared.I'm waiting to welcome you to my home in Palermo with the typical warmth of a DOC Sicilian!

Sun & taste of Sicily-  small group hands-on cooking class 

Cook a Sicilian menu of three specialty dishes during a private cooking class in Palermo.Start by choosing the freshest ingredients, then sip Sicilian wines as you cook in your host's home kitchen. The menu varies according to the season to highlight local pastas, fresh vegetables, meats and fish, and desserts, and the class concludes by sharing the meal you've cooked with your host.

Handmade Sicilian Pasta Cooking Class

Rosa Maria

Enjoy a hands-on way to discover the highlights of Sicilian cuisine: this home cooking class has you whipping up a variety of traditional dishes in no time. Make your own fresh pasta, get to work prepping and cooking. At the end of the class, enjoy your delicious meal of authentic Sicilian cuisine, plus wine, coffee, and limoncello to accompany.

Handmade Pasta and Tiramisù cooking class in Palermo

Three-course Sicilian cooking class featuring typical local ingredients. Discover how to prepare eggplant caponata (a dish made with fried eggplant, tomatoes, capers, and olives in a sweet and sour sauce) and follow up by making busiate, fresh pasta shaped using a ferretto and topped with a pesto of sun-dried tomatoes, almonds, basil, mint, and caciocavallo cheese. We'll conclude the lesson with refreshing watermelon or lemon gelo, served in small cups. We'll accompany the dishes with Sicilian DOC wines.

Cooking class on a terrace over the rooftops of Palermo

Aperitif on a rooftop terrace in Palermo with Sicilian street food (if you'd like, I can also demonstrate the preparation of a dish). Among the delicacies you'll find are panelle and cazzilli, sfincionelli, arancinette, eggplant caponata, traditional Sicilian cheeses, and small cannoli filled with ricotta cream. The wines I offer are Sicilian DOC wines.

Aperitif with Sicilian street food on the terrace

We will pay a visit to a typical Sicilian market with street vendors and purchase raw materials , and then we will go home to cook the three recipes of our menu.We will prepare the following menu:-Sfincione palermitano-Eggplant rolls stuffed with fresh pasta: homemade maccaruni covered with fresh sheep ricotta cheese-Lemon cream or ricotta cake as a final dessert

Palermo Cape Market plus cooking class

The menu includes: Busiate alla Norma, green tortelloni, and tiramisu.We'll make a typical Sicilian pasta from semolina flour and water, twisted around a rod called "busiate". We'll dress it with fresh tomato sauce, fried eggplants, and salted ricotta. The tortelloni will be green as they're made with spinach dough, filled with either ricotta, pumpkin, or eggplant depending on the season, and finally garnished with butter and sage. To conclude, we'll serve the classic tiramisu with coffee in colorful disposable cups.

Busiate alla Norma, green tortelloni and tiramisu

Live an unforgettable culinary experience in Palermo at the home of our Cesarina Rosa Maria!In this cooking class you will learn the secrets to prepare three excellent Sicilian dishes:We will start with traditional panelle to follow with tasty trofie alla Norma.The course will end on a sweet note with a delicious ricotta cheese roll!

Sicilian cooking class in Palermo

We will learn how to make Sicilian arancine of three types"Norma" with eggplant (vegetarian)"Accarne" with beef ragout"Abburro" with ham and cheese.We will start with cooking the rice then move on to preparing the toppings and finally assembling the arancine.I will offer an appetizer and dessert in addition to tasting the arancine.

Arancine cooking class

As a starter, we will prepare delicious oven-baked mussels au gratin with aromatic breadcrumbs. Next, we will create a one-course dish: fish couscous, which will also be our cooking demonstration. I will teach you how to cook couscous in a simple and quick way, accompanied by a fish sauce enriched with almonds, basil, mint, and orange.To conclude, you can choose between Sicilian cannoli with ricotta cream or the timeless tiramisu.

Seafood menu on the terrace with fish couscous cooking demo

In this cooking class, held on my beautiful terrace, we'll cook two types of fresh pasta: busiate, a typical Sicilian pasta (a sorto of long macaroni) and topped with tomato sauce, fried eggplant, and salted ricotta; and green tortelloni filled with pumpkin or eggplant and dressed with butter and sage. We'll finish with tiramisu, a classic Italian dessert, prepared with coffee-soaked ladyfingers and mascarpone cheese, and served in small cups.

Cooking class fresh pasta and tiramisu on the terrace

Rosa

Enter the atmosphere of Palermo street food in my home. Learn how to cook panelle, arancine and cannoli together with me and my family. You will be welcomed in my country house with a glass of Sicilian wine and 0 km appetizers. If it's winter, don't worry, you will be pampered with the warmth of a fireplace and if you come during a beautiful sunny day, you can enjoy the outdoors and my garden. I can accommodate gluten intolerant and vegetarians.

FRIA E MANCIA (Fry and Eat) Palermo street food

Outing in typical Palermo style.

Monreale

Giuseppe

Cooking class and Monreale-style lunch. Together, we'll prepare a classic meal for a Monreale family. Starting with an appetizer of eggplant caponata, featuring eggplant, tomatoes, onions, green olives, capers, celery, and basil; followed by a rich and flavorful first course: tagliatelle with sausage ragù. For the main course, Sicilian-style involtini, using typical ingredients like pine nuts, raisins, onion, bay leaves, and caciocavallo cheese, giving the meat a unique flavor. To conclude our meal, dessert: Sicilian cassatelle. We'll accompany everything with a good Sicilian wine: Nero d'Avola.

Cooking class and lunch in Monreale

Alessandra

Palermitan Sunday is an important moment made of family and friends . In the villa , surrounded by greenery , I welcome my guests .My cooking is made of memories that I relive today through dishes that taste of love . I love to set the table with embroidered tablecloths and create place cards for my guests .I have always cooked on holidays , because I like to open the doors of my home and share with my family , with my friends good food .

A typical palermitan Sunday-menu

Alice

In Sicily, there are local versions of pizza and focaccia that differ from traditional pizza in both dough and toppings used. You'll discover all the secrets to prepare an authentic Palermo-style sfincione, a delicious Messina focaccia, and a Catanese scacciata. In addition to preparing these recipes, you will learn hidden secrets and anecdotes about their history. At the end of the preparation, you can taste the pizzas while enjoying them with a great wine or ice-cold beer, as tradition dictates.Menu: Sfincione (Sicilian-style pizza with onion and tomato sauce), Focaccia Messinese (Sicilian-style focaccia with escarole), Scacciata catanese (Sicilian-style filled pizza with vegetables and cheese).

Sicilian pizzas and focaccias

Sicily is world famous for its sweets, the origins of which are the result of the many dominations that have passed through it. The different dominations in addition to having left traces in the architectural sphere have left a gastronomic legacy that has evolved, giving rise to Sicilian cuisine. Desserts are a fundamental pillar, without which a lunch or dinner cannot be concluded worthily, especially during festive periods. During the cooking class you will learn how to prepare 3 traditional Sicilian desserts as well as discover curious anecdotes about the origin or name of the dish. From almond cookies to cassata, via watermelon gelo and biscotti reginella. The desserts prepared vary according to seasonality and the holidays when it is customary to prepare them.

Sicilian dessert: a long pastry-making tradition

Easter is approaching and with it also the preparation of the typical dishes of this holiday.What a better opportunity to get your hands in the dough and learn while having fun preparing the sweets that are symbolic of Sicilian Easter. An authentic experience that will allow you to learn and taste sweets that you will carry in your heart forever. The cooking class will be dedicated to the preparation of 3 traditional Sicilian Easter sweets. Baked cassata, marzipan lamb and cuddura with egg (Easter biscuit) will be the protagonists. Anecdotes, stories and secrets of these sweets will be told during the preparation.The preparation of the sweets will be followed by a snack where all the prepared sweets will be tasted paired with coffee, tea and homemade liqueurs.

Traditional Easter sweets in Sicily

Pina

I will be waiting for you at my home in Palermo to learn how to cook some traditional local dishes.We will open the experience with an appetizer of crostini with pate and side dishes such as pickles (homemade by me), tomatoes, eggplant and artichokes.We will prepare fresh scialatielli with mussels, squash blossoms and pesto in the traditional way.At the end of the course it will be possible to sit down at the table to enjoy what we have prepared together, concluding with an iconic Palermo dessert such as fresh ricotta cream with decomposed cannoli and caramelized orange.

Flavors of Sicily at Pina's House

I can't wait to host guests in my home, where we'll enjoy fresh products. The menu will include appetizers, first courses, main courses, and desserts. Fresh homemade pasta and ravioli, hand-kneaded tagliatelle with quality ingredients, and seasonal fresh fruit as accompaniments. The dessert will consist of honey struffoli and homemade orange jam. Bitter coffee and lots of joy for sharing this experience together!

A joyful cooking class: fresh pasta & seasonal delights

Scent of the Sea: a title that perfectly suits what I'll prepare for my guests. For the appetizer, I propose oven-baked mussels au gratin or shrimp and samphire fritters. As a first course, homemade fresh pasta (busiate or tagliatelle) with red anchovies or spaghetti with fresh mussels and clams. The second course will feature mixed fish skewers with a fennel and citron salad side dish or a fragrant baked swordfish wheel. For dessert, you can choose between panna cotta with bitter orange jam or tiramisu.

Scent of the sea

At my home, I'm delighted to lovingly offer a menu featuring assorted homemade Sicilian appetizers. Choose from zucchini flower or shrimp fritters. For the main course, select one of two options: a timbale of homemade Busiati alla Norma or Paccheri with squid and prawns. To finish, enjoy a homemade dessert crafted by me: a Babà with whipped cream and strawberries.

Salvatore

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