The almond (mandorla, in Italian) is likely one of the most attribute Sicilian fruits, which will be loved all yr spherical, particularly in sweets.
In summer time, you may drink it within the refreshing almond milk and in granita; and in winter, you’ll find it in nougat and within the well-known dry cookies, pasticcini alla mandorla. And, after all, within the frutta Martorana.
Along with consuming it, in spring you may go to their great flowers within the competition devoted to it within the Valley of the Temples, in Agrigento, the Sagra del Mandorlo in Fiore.
And if you’re not but in Sicily, you could wish to know a little bit extra about this fruit by the tales of two distinctive writers:
