When do you normally prepare it:
The plate must be prepared in the afternoon on the 24th December to be eaten at dinner for Cristmans Eve whit the all family reunited for the recurrence. During the preparation of te "mpanata", it is tradition to ...>>
Legend
This typical plate has perhaps Arabian or Spanish origin, but any inhabitant of Pachino has the own's personal way of making "mpanata". Many persons prefer it with fish and potatoes, others with onions and a kind of cottage cheese. "De gustibus non disputandom est"... >>
Ingredients
for the base
1,00 kg. of hard grain flour
25 grams of beer's leaven
Salt (sufficient to...)
2 spoons of extravirgin oil of olive
wather (sufficient to...)
for the filling
700 grams of swine meat in small pieces... >>

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Preparation

For the filling
prepare the swine's gravy in a big pot. Fry the minced onion in oil then add the meat and cook un it's browned; after, add the concentrated tomato previously melted whit not much water. In another pot fry the sausage cut in small piaces. Therefore, put in the meat's pot the fried sausage, the sauce, the wild fennel seeds, a glass of water and the salt. Cook all on a slow heat for about an until the gravy will by sufficiently dense. In the meantime boil the cauliflower in another pot for long time, then let it drip...>>
History
Traditional plate for christmas eve.

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