Pasta Con Le Sarde appears as a signature dish in 1 Italy cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Pasta con le sarde · Palermo
Pasta con le sarde is bucatini or perciatelli tossed with fresh sardines, wild fennel fronds, pine nuts, sultanas, anchovies and saffron, breadcrumbed at the top, Palermo's defining pasta.
Pasta con le sarde traces to the 9th-century Arab conquest of Sicily; the combination of sardines, raisins, pine nuts and saffron is the most Arab-influenced of all Palermitan dishes. Tradition has it that an Arab general's cook created it on the Sicilian shore using the campaign rations to hand. The dish is on every Palermitan trattoria carte.
Where to eat in Palermo:
- Trattoria Ai Cascinari
- Buatta Cucina Popolana
- Osteria Ballaro