Ciarduna

Ciarduna is a type of Italian pastry.

Ciarduna

Type	Pastry
Place of origin	Italy
Region or state	Sicily
Main ingredients	Almonds, ricotta or mascarpone[1]

Ciarduna siciliana is a sweet pastry from the province of Agrigento, in Sicily. It consists of an almond cookie shell filled with a ricotta filling.^[2]

Traditional ingredients

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).

See also

• Italy portal
• Food portal

• List of Italian desserts and pastries
• List of almond dishes