Ciarduna

*Ciarduna*
Type	Pastry
Place of origin	Italy
Region or state	Sicily
Main ingredients	Almonds, ricotta or mascarpone

Ciarduna is a type of Italian pastry.

Ciarduna siciliana is a sweet pastry from the province of Agrigento, in Sicily. It consists of an almond cookie shell filled with a ricotta filling.^[2]

Traditional ingredients

Traditional ingredients are flour, sugar, strutto, vanilla, active yeast, ammonia baking powder (ammonium bicarbonate), homogenized milk, crushed almonds, cinnamon, and icing sugar (when decorating the tops of the ciarduna's).

References

^ "Ciarduna Recipe". Group Recipes. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
^ Philpott, Don (2017). The world of wine and food: a guide to varieties, tastes, history, and pairings. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 385. ISBN 978-1-4422-6804-3.

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[1] "Ciarduna Recipe". Group Recipes. Retrieved 25 July 2017.

[2] Philpott, Don (2017). The world of wine and food: a guide to varieties, tastes, history, and pairings. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 385. ISBN 978-1-4422-6804-3.

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Ciarduna

Traditional ingredients

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References