Lampedusa and its Gastronomy

Cuisine, simple and fragrant, linked to fish, pasta, and Mediterranean flavors. Visiting Lampedusa means to travel through the tasty local cuisine and Sicilian. To appreciate the richness of this island should be at the table sadersi letting yourself be enchanted by the scents and flavors from a kitchen that fully reflects the varied morphology of the territory. Lampedusa is full of restaurants that offer dishes of fish. In particular, to taste to taste the couscous, and swordfish cooked in a pan.

The kitchen Lampedusa, like that of Sicily, is closely linked to historical events and cultural and religious. This is a food culture, complex and intricate, showing traces and important contributions of cultures, century after century have been established in Sicily. The eating habits of Magna Graecia, the delicacies of "Monsu" (the French chefs of noble families), rising from Arabic sweets, offal cooked in the street to the Jewish way, all contribute to make this kitchen range. In traditional cuisine using only extra virgin olive oil, both for cooking and to season, while butter is little used. The main ingredients are vegetable or marine (fish and shellfish). Fish is traditionally a strong presence on the boards of Sicily, served fresh, flavored with olive oil, garlic or olives and capers, breadcrumbs and orange. Lampedusa in the kitchen has a prominent place the dough, pasta dishes that give off the intense flavors of the Mediterranean.

Do not miss the Bottarga (tiny raw eggs, very tasty, taken directly from tuna), also ideal as a precious souvenir. The Bottarga is in fact one of the last pleasant rediscovery of Mediterranean cuisine, typical of areas with high dressing seafaring vocation, which is spreading in the Mediterranean islands to the flavor.
For the preparation of desserts are widely used honey, chocolate and of course the more typical ricotta. Do not miss the Cassata, the main sweet Sicilian cannoli, or the delicious sweets made of almond paste. Ice cream and ices are important pieces of hot summer days Lampedusa, so that Sicily has the invention of the modern formula for the preparation of ice cream.