Type | Pastry |
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Place of origin | Italy |
Region or state | Sicily |
Main ingredients | Almonds, ricotta or mascarpone[1] |
Ciarduna is a type of Italian pastry.
Ciarduna siciliana is a traditional sweet pastry from the province of Agrigento, Sicily. It consists of an almond cookie shell filled with a ricotta filling.[2]
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).