Vinu cotto and mustazzoli
Product included in the national list of traditional agri-food products (PAT)
Typology PAT : Products of Gastronomy
Production area: Nicosia
Sweet made with prickly pears.
Preparation:
Peel the prickly pears and put them to boil, then pass through a sieve and put them back on the fire adding the flour little by little, a little sugar and an orange zest. When it is about to harden, it is raised from the heat and poured onto the cutting board giving the shape of a biscuit, then passed into the oven, then dipped in cooked wine and sprinkled with toasted and chopped almonds.
From the network:
Technical data sheet of the traditional agri-food product (PAT)
Territory concerned with production: Nicosia.
Brief description of the product: Sweet made with prickly pears.
Description of the processing and maturing methods: Peel the prickly pears and put them to boil, then pass through a sieve and put them back on the fire adding the flour little by little, a little sugar and an orange zest. When it is about to harden, it is raised from the heat and poured onto the cutting board giving the shape of a biscuit, then passed into the oven, then dipped in cooked wine and sprinkled with toasted and chopped almonds.
Specific materials and equipment used for preparation and conditioning: None.
Description of the processing, storage and maturing rooms: None.
Elements proving that the methodologies have been practiced in a homogeneous way and according to traditional rules for a period of not less than 25 years: Traditions handed down from generation to generation.
Source Pat Cards: Sicily Region
Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
Information contributions: Web, Region of Sicily
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