Taormina Arancina Cooking Class - Small Group Class

Learn how to cook the famous Sicilian street food "ARANCINE".

Throughout Southern Italy, it’s quite common to find street vendors who sell them from carts – still warm and dripping with oil.

The traditional arancine comes in two main variants: the first is perfectly round in shape filled with a ragu sauce of meat, mozzarella and peas; the second is called al burro (“with butter”) and has a longer, pear-like shape and is filled with diced mozzarella and prosciutto and grated cheese.

In Catania there is a version with Bronte pistachios are among the most popular. In other regions, the fillings might include mushrooms, sausage, gorgonzola, chicken, swordfish and even squid ink.