Pasta with sea urchins

 

Just the first fork to let you recognize the flavors of the sea.

Sicily is an island with unique characteristics, a land of history and legends, a land of strong traditions, boasted everywhere even for the pleasures of the table, or for its culinary tradition. There’s no better way to understand a land than by tasting the flavors of its cuisine.

For the fish lovers, one of the dishes that every Sicilian cannot but love is pasta with sea urchins, typical of the areas around Palermo. The special feature of this dish is the flavor that results from the combination of all the ingredients: the taste of the sea! However, it is useless to describe it, you have to taste it, so here is the recipe:

Ingredients for 4 people:

About 350-400 gr. of spaghetti pasta

200 g of fresh or frozen hedgehog (depending on the period)

½ glass of white wine

2 cloves of garlic

Parsley

Extra virgin olive oil

                                                                                                                   Salt to taste.

Preparation

Fry 2 crushed garlic cloves with all the peel together with parsley stems,

let it golden and then add the white wine and cook

over low heat until the wine evaporates .

Remove both the stems and the garlic cloves from the pan.

Turn off the heat, let it cool slightly and add the hedgehog pulp in the pan,

making it thaw out (if frozen), stirring occasionally but without lighting the fire.

Leave to rest

Chop the parsley.

Let the water for the pasta (already salted) boil, add the pasta and bring it almost to cooking.

Add the drained pasta to the pan with our hedgehog pulp, stir in and add the chopped parsley

Serve it!

Delicious recipe, suitable for those who, even with simplicity, want to amaze their guests. So annoying to take curls but just as good to eat. The best way to bring the sea, and the Sicilian translation, to the table with you.

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This is just a small piece of the Sicilian culinary scene, because you have to know that from area to area even the most classic dishes completely change, but this happens also for the ways of defining a food element. Think of the dispute between ArancinO and ArancinA! Rely on our partner to discover the particularities of the gastronomic landscape of this land,You won’t regret it!