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The agricultural and food products and the handicrafts of Nebrodi are characterized by a top quality and the enhancement of local products, since they are deeply linked to the local territory and culture.
The basket of Nebrodi aims at gathering and offering the traditional local products that you can find in Nebrodi Park and, more in general, in the Nebrodi area.

Durum wheat bread and other local products
Durum wheat bread and other local products
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Almond pastry is the common base for many of the traditional sweets of Nebrodi, characterized by a surprising variety. It is used, adding chocolate, fruit, or dried figs, also to fill the so-called "covered royal pastry", a sort of round big ravioli....
Category: Sweets
Cheese prepared with mixed cow's and goat's milk. Milk is heated at a temperature of 37°C, put into a wooden tub, mixed with rennet texture, and poured into rush baskets giving a particular shape to the cheese. Cheese is then pressed by hand,...
Category: Cheese
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
It is a traditional Sicilian cheese prepared by the cheese-makers of Nebrodi Mountains according to traditional methods handed down from father to son. It is usually produced in small rounds (from 1 to 1.5 kilos), although some producers choose to make...
Category: Cheese
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
 
Slow Food Presidium
Ricotta
Ricotta is a dairy product widespread all over Sicily, where it is used to prepare many dishes. However, in Nebrodi Mountains it enjoys a sort of a blaze of biodiversity. As a matter of fact, in this area it is still produced as it was at the times of...
Category: Cheese
Nebrodi Hazelnut
As a consequence of the crisis of mulberry farming, around 1890 the slopes of the middle and high hills were interested by the diffusion of another protagonist of Nebrodi rural landscape: the hazelnut tree. Already cultivated in the past in the territory...
Category: Fruit
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Strawberries, wild strawberries, bilberries, raspberries, blackberries, white and red currants are cultivated in Nebrodi Mountains in spring - summer. These fruits are very rich in vitamins and other properties: they have always spontaneously grown in...
Category: Fruit
Nebrodi are characterized by an extraordinary and unique variety of plants and trees: it is enough to say that in only 30 minutes you can pass from the sea level to 1,500m of height. Practicing both a nomadic and resident beekeeping, it is possible to...
Category: Honey
Valdemone is obtained from the oil of three main cultivars: Ogliarola Messinese, Santagatese, and Minuta. The oil is clear or slightly opaque, with a green color and golden shades. The fragrance recalls new-harvested olives and is completed by notes of...
Category: Oil
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PDO - Protected Designation of Origin
Nebrodi Black Pig is a small-size pork with a dark coat, very similar to the wild boar. It lives in Nebrodi forests and is bred in a semi-wild state in large areas used as pastures: only near the delivery their diet is integrated. Frugal and resistant,...
Category: Autochthonous Breed and Meat
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Slow Food Presidium
Durum Wheat Bread
In Nebrodi, as well as in Madonie and the rest of Sicily, traditional bread is made at least in part with re-milled semolina obtained from durum wheat and mixed with water, salt, and - often - with leaven. It has a round or elongate shape and medium-big...
Category: Rice Pasta and Cereals
Black pig ham is obtained from pigs bred with a semi-extensive method called "in Pien'aria". They are fed with acorns and fodder essences giving to the ham characteristic organoleptic features. Production Area: Nebrodi Mountains Product Features:...
Category: Cold Cuts
Capocollo
In Sicily, like anywhere else in Southern Italy, capocollo (called coppa in Northern Italy) is the cold cut obtained from the homonymous pork cut, corresponding to the muscles of the back of its neck. After deboning the meat, removing the grease from...
Category: Cold Cuts
The production area of this cold cut includes the Municipality of San Marco, the Municipalities of Castell'Umberto and Mirto, in Valle del Fitalia, and Sinagra, in the Valley of the stream Naso. It is obtained from meat of Large White, Landrace, Nero...
Category: Cold Cuts
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