Panelle are thin chickpea-flour fritters; crocche di patate are mashed-potato croquettes. Together they fill a sesame vastedda bun for the Palermitan working lunch sandwich.
Panelle trace to Arab Sicily; chickpea flour was a Maghrebi staple that entered Sicilian cooking after the 9th-century conquest. The form survives at every Ballaro, Capo and Vucciria street counter and is the most enduring Arab Sicilian legacy in the city's daily diet.
3 editor picks for Panelle e Crocche in Palermo, ranked by editorial score. All Palermo signature dishes · Panelle e Crocche across every city.
Friggitoria Chiluzzo ★ 4.6
kalsa · Piazza Kalsa 11, 90133 Palermo
Friggitoria Chiluzzo on Piazza Kalsa in Palermo is the canonical panelle counter, four-euro chickpea-fritter-and-crocche sandwiches eaten standing under the palm-tree square.
Panelle e Crocche del Ballaro ★ 4.4
albergheria · Piazza Ballaro, 90134 Palermo
Panelle and crocche vendors along Piazza Ballaro and Via Albergheria in Palermo fry chickpea-flour fritters and potato croquettes in flat pans through the working day.
Antica Focacceria San Francesco ★ 4.2
kalsa · Via Alessandro Paternostro 58, 90133 Palermo
Antica Focacceria San Francesco on Via Alessandro Paternostro opposite the basilica is Palermo's 1834-founded sit-down street food room, serving the canonical pane ca' meusa and panelle.