Organic products

The lentils reached their peak production between the 1930s and the 1960s, when around 30 percent of Italian lentils came from Sicily, and especially Villalba. This legume was particularly in demand for its remarkable sensory characteristics and because the market at the time favored the large-seed types

Hulled Broad Beans - Organic Product
Make your creamy soups with shelled beans of the Monreale type, broken and without integument. Produced from organic farming, they are kidney-shaped and creamy yellow in color. What characterizes them is the size of the seed: the Monreale type broad bean is in fact a broad bean, even if in the same pod the size of the seeds is different.

Cicerchia - Organic Legumes of Sicily
Cicerchia is a little known but no less good legume than lentils, chickpeas or beans. Produced from organic cultivation, our cicerchia is rich in proteins and is considered among the best grain legumes for food quality. Typical Sicilian product, the cicerchia has recently been rediscovered and is used to make gourmet dishes.

A really chunky soup packed with with kidney beans, cicerchia and chickpeas. Cicerchia is rich in proteins and is considered among the best grain legumes for food quality. Excellent in combination with red beans and chickpeas to prepare gourmet soups.

They are a good source of protein, and when combined with a whole grain such as whole wheat pasta or brown rice, provide protein comparable to that of meat or dairy foods. An important characteristic of dry beans is that they absorb the flavor and aromas of the ingredients that accompany them, so they are very suitable for stews and soups.

The precious Timilia flour is a wholemeal flour which, during the phase of separation from the bran, sifting, is not very refined. It takes its name from the ancient Sicilian durum wheat Timilia or Tumminia (Triticum durum), from the stone grinding of which a nutritionally rich flour is obtained.

Obtained with the stone milling of the ancient Sicilian Majorca wheat, the Majorcan flour is a soft wheat flour formerly used in our island for the production of sweets, in particular for the Sicilian cannoli rind, and recently rediscovered for its quality. and digestibility.

The Senatore Cappelli durum wheat flour comes from a "hybrid" grain, a cross between different wheats, milled in stone. Senatore Cappelli is the youngest of the ancient Sicilian grains. It was created by the agronomist Nazareno Strampelli who named it in honor of Senator Raffaele Cappelli who had granted him land for his experiments.

Perciasacchi Flour is a whole durum wheat flour obtained from the stone milling of Perciasacchi wheat, an ancient Sicilian wheat often called "Sicilian kamut" improperly because, according to recent studies, the Sicilian native cultivar already existed before the kamut.