Pasta chi Vruoccoli Arriminati (Sicilian Pasta With Cauliflower and Toasted Breadcrumbs)

Cauliflower cooked down into a savory-sweet sauce with Sicilian staples: anchovies, pine nuts, raisins, saffron, and toasted breadcrumbs.

Pasta Burro e Alici (Pasta With Creamy Anchovy-Butter Sauce)

Butter, anchovies, and starchy cooking water come together to make a super-savory, creamy pasta sauce.

Pasta with Breadcrumbs & Anchovies

Pasta with Breadcrumbs was invented as a cheaper alternative to grated cheese. This recipe includes lots of anchovies, capers, garlic, & pepper flakes.

Pasta Con le Sarde (Sicilian Pasta With Sardines)

Heavily influenced by the Arabs that ruled Sicily more than a thousand years ago, pasta con le sarde (pasta with sardines) features long bucatini or spaghetti in a slick, luscious sauce made from onions, fennel, raisins, pine nuts, anchovies, sardines, and saffron, and is topped with toasted and seasoned bread crumbs.

Pasta con la Bottarga (Pasta With Bottarga)

An aglio e olio variation that puts the spotlight on Sardinia's famed salted mullet roe bottarga.

Sicilian-Style Spaghetti Alla Carrettiera (Fresh Tomato and Garlic Sauce)

Fresh tomato, basil, olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, and breadcrumbs are all you need to whip up this rapid, wonderfully fresh Sicilian pasta sauce.

Sfincione (Sicilian New Years Pizza with Bread Crumbs, Onions, and Caciocavallo)

Note: Caciocavallo is a sheep's milk cheese from Sicily. When purchasing, ask for aged caciocavallo meant for grating. If unavailable, replace with Pecorino-Romano or Parmigiano-Reggiano. Store-bought bread crumbs will work, but for best results, use homemade. The 12.25 ounces of...

Orecchiette con le Cime di Rapa (Apulian Orecchiette With Broccoli Rabe)

Straight from the heel of Italy, this orecchiette features olive oil, garlic, chiles, anchovies, bitter greens, and toasted breadcrumbs.

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

How I Learned To Like The 1 Pasta I Hate I hate olives and I don't love anchovies, which makes Pasta Puttanesca one of the pastas I do not like. But today I'm going to see if there is a way to make it that I might enjoy.

Pesto alla Trapanese (Sicilian Pesto With Almonds and Tomatoes)

Pesto alla trapanese is Sicily's answer to Liguria's more famous basil-rich pesto sauce. They have a lot in common, as both are full of fresh basil, nuts, garlic, olive oil, and cheese, and are best mixed with a mortar and pestle. Trapanese pesto uses almonds instead of pine nuts, and adds juicy tomatoes to the mix.