Street food vendor selling 'sfinciuni', a kind of thick pizza
Sfinciuni
Panelle - Chick pea fritters
Cazzilli - Potatoe croquettes
Scacce, mostly found in the province of Ragusa
Sangeli - Sicilian sanguinaccio similar to a British black pudding
Stigghiola, grilled intestines of sheep or goat wrapped around spring onions, Catania's Market
Arancini, stuffed fried rice balls
Paninu ca' meusa - Spleen sandwich
Spleen sandwich corner, Antica Focacceria San Francesco, Palermo
Spleen sandwich corner, Antica Focacceria San Francesco, Palermo
'Puppu bollitu', boiled octopus, Capo Market Palermo
Crispelle
Torrone - Almond Nougat
Street food in Sicily was popular long before 'foodies' made this type of food fashionable.
In every market, street corner, kiosk around the island you find stalls offering ready-to-eat local food; and by local we often mean 'super-local', food and ingredients that at times you only find in a specific town or area, like Palermo's Pani ca meusa (bread rolls with spleen), unavailable in other parts of Sicily.
In the following slideshow, we give you a taste of this colorful world.
