Choose Your Own 4-Course Menu Cooking Class in Palermo

Descrizione

Mamma Corleone is the result of a synergy between Maria Pia, our Mamma cooking teacher, and Davide plus their passion for traditional Sicilian culinary heritage.

Lead by Maria Pia, the class will make sure you learn the necessary techniques to replicate our dishes at your hometown. During the class you will be exposed to traditional way of cooking in a friendly, playful atmosphere.

For the menu, you will be able to choose 4 Sicilian traditional dishes to cook from our list of starter, primo, main and a dessert. You will learn how to make pasta from scratch, how to make the sauce for it, and how to deliver a complete Sicilian style meal with respect for ingredients and our tradition.

Keep in touch with us before the class and let us know what would be your ideal menu for the day.

Menú

Choose one dish from each section on this list:

STARTER

• Aubergines Rolls
• Caponata - Chopped fried eggplant and celery seasoned with sweetened vinegar, with capers in a sweet and sour sauce
• Arancine - Deep fried stuffed rice balls with fillings
• Cunzato bread and croutons with dried tomatoes
• Octopus salad
• Panelle - Sicilian fritters made from chickpea flour and other ingredients

PASTA

• Baked Anelleti
• Homemade pasta with tomato sauce
• Pasta alla norma - Pasta in rich tomato sauce with aubergine and ricotta
• Pasta with cauliflower
• Pasta with shrimps and pistachio from Bronte
• Pasta with swordfish and mint
• Pasta with tenerumi
• Pasta with sardines and wild fennel
• Soup with long zucchini
• Spaghetti with cuttlefish black ink
• Spaghetti with fried zucchini

MAIN

• Anchovies Fishballs
• Arancine
• Baccala a sfincione - Baked mackerel with breadcrumbs
• Beccafico sardines - Baked fish stuffed with raisins, pine nuts, and breadcrumbs
• Caft Rolls
• Eggplant Rolls
• Swordfish Rolls
• Meatballs with tomato sauce
• Meatballs sweet and sour

DESSERT

• Bianco mangiare - Sicilian milk pudding
• Biscotti regina - Italian biscuits coated with sesame seeds
• Cannoli - Fried pastry dough filled with sweet, creamy ricotta filling
• Lemon cake
• Orange bread
• Ricotta cheese cream
• Ricotta cheese Cuddureddi - Italian style doughnut
• Seasonal jelly (Watermelon in the summer; Mandarin or orange in the winter) 

Programma

• 10:30 am: Everyone meets at school and gets ready for the class
• 10:40 am: Begin the class with an introduction about all ingredients and menu by Maria Pia
• 11:00 am: Start to make the first traditional dish
• 12:00 pm: Learning how to make the second traditional dish
• 1:00 pm: Learning how to make the third dish and dessert
• 2:00 pm: Share the dishes you made with everyone in the class
• 3:00 pm: The end of the class