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Restaurants in Trapani
Where to eat in Trapani: fish couscous, busiate with Trapani pesto, salt IGP, and Marsala.
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Eating in Trapani
Trapani faces Africa, and the plate shows it: couscous here is not a recent fashion but home cooking, and has been for centuries.
The couscous
Trapani couscous is fish couscous: the semolina is rolled by hand, steamed in a *cuscusiera*, and moistened with a broth of rockfish. San Vito Lo Capo holds its festival, but it is eaten all year.
The dishes
- Busiate with Trapani pesto — raw tomato, almonds, garlic and basil, crushed in a mortar;
- Tuna from the tonnara — belly, bottarga, mosciame — from the Egadi islands;
- Pane cunzato and artichoke caponata;
- Fried cassatelle with ricotta.
The salt
Sale Marino di Trapani IGP is harvested in the salt pans between Trapani and Marsala, with their windmills: one of the province's landscapes.
In the glass
Marsala DOC — vergine, superiore, sweet — and whites from Grillo and Catarratto; on Pantelleria, in this province, Passito from Zibibbo.
The sweets of Erice
In Erice, above the city, they make genovesi filled with custard, served still warm.
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