SpringIn season now
- Sfincia di San Giuseppe
- A fried pastry filled with sweetened ricotta, chocolate and candied fruit, traditionally eaten on 19 March, the feast of San Giuseppe and Father's Day; Italian Wikipedia adds that it is now made all year.
- Frittedda (broad beans, peas and artichokes)
- A Palermo spring side dish of fresh broad beans, peas and artichokes, cooked sweet and sour; Balarm says it can only be made in March and April and is first cooked, by tradition, on San Giuseppe's day.
- Cassata siciliana
- Italian Wikipedia says cassata began as a sweet of Sicilian nuns reserved for Easter. Pasticceria Costa lists a Cassata Siciliana Barocca and a cassata al forno, and Antico Caffe Spinnato lists cassate.
SummerIn season now
- Pasta con le sarde
- Italian Wikipedia says it is made from March to September, when fresh sardines are at market and wild fennel can be gathered; the Palermo version is cooked without tomato. Buatta Cucina Popolana and Antica Focacceria San Francesco list it.
- Granita with brioche col tuppo
- Granita with a brioche is the typical Sicilian breakfast, especially in summer and on the coast, according to Italian Wikipedia. Gelateria Stancampiano and Casa Stagnitta both list granite.
- Festino foods (babbaluci, boiled octopus, watermelon)
- Around the Festino di Santa Rosalia in July, Palermo eats babbaluci, boiled octopus, boiled corn on the cob and watermelon, with pasta con le sarde and sfincione, according to Italian Wikipedia.
AutumnIn season now
- Madonie mushrooms and chestnuts
- In the Madonie mountains east of Palermo, chestnuts are harvested in autumn and mushroom picking begins with the first rains, according to Italian Wikipedia.
- Frutta martorana
- Marzipan fruit fills Palermo's pastry shop windows in November for the Festa dei Morti; Palermitans buy it to put in the cannistru left for children on the night of 1 to 2 November, says the Città metropolitana di Palermo.
- Muffuletta
- On 2 November the tradition in Palermo is to breakfast on muffuletta, an oval bread dressed with oil, salt, pepper, anchovy and oregano, or with fresh tomato, according to the Città metropolitana di Palermo.
WinterIn season now
- Buccellato siciliano
- A ring-shaped Christmas pastry of Palermo province, filled inside and decorated outside; Italian Wikipedia says it was once the main Christmas sweet there. Pasticceria Costa lists buccellato.
- Sicilian blood oranges
- Wikipedia lists the common blood orange harvested from January to April, Tarocco from November to January and Moro from mid-January to the end of April. The IGP red oranges are grown around Catania, Enna and Syracuse.
