| Type | Pastry |
|---|---|
| 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 sweet pastry from the province of Agrigento, in 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).
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