"La Giardiniera" 520g

Sweet red peppers are grown in open field in May and picked manually in August and September on our farm. They are washed, sorted, cut into strips, pickled for a few hours, after which that are manually put into jars, along with fresh mint leaves, dry garlic and extra virgin olive oil.

The sun dried cherry tomatoes are fragrant and appetizing, perfect to surprise your guests during a hors d’oeuvre. Also very good with a fresh mozzarella, on a pizza, on a bruschetta (roasted bread) with capers from Racale or for a fast and delicious pasta with fresh basil. An ever-increasing number of famous chef have noticed the versatility of this product and are using it more and more to create extraordinary dishes.

In this all-dressing you will find all the greens cultivated in open field in our farm from April to May and which are picked by hand from June to September. The vegetables are naturally dried in the sun and then worked by hand from our women. Aubergines, zucchini, tomatoes and onions in one product, the all put in extra virgin olive oil.

We cultivate the zucchini in open field in the month of April and we pick them up by hand in June and July. Then they are washed, selected, cut into slice with all the peel, salted and desiccated on frames in the sun for 3-4 days. After that, they are selected again, washed, seasoned with Mediterranean spices and put in extravirgin olive oil. To obtain 500 Gr. of dried zucchini we need about 10 Kg of fresh zucchini and more than 120 working hours! We have learnt from our grandpa to respect the natural time of maturation and desiccation of the vegetables, only in this way they conserve all their nourishing richness.

The greens in this dried hors-d’oeuvre are cultivated in open field from April to May and are picked by hand from June to September. they are washed, selected, cut into large slices, put on desiccation frames and laid in the sun for 3-4 days. 

“Puntarelle” are the heart of CICORIA CATALOGNA, a lettuce typical of our area. Sown in October, the vegetable is picked between January and February. Our women remove the leaves of the plant and manually cut away the “scattuni”, i.e., the shoots, an put them delicately in pickle to ripen for a few days, before being preserved under oil without the addition of aromas or spices.

Small, delicate and extremely precious as real diamonds, they are harvested, defoliated and put into jars strictly by hand, but their thickness does not exceed one and a half centimeters!

We couldn't just call them artichokes!

They are wild greens and grow at 5-10 cm under the soil. They can’t be cultivated and their presence on our tables is possible only thanks to the farmers that collect them digging the ground with a hoe. We buy these greens from them. It is very important to wash them well and carefully. After the washing, we scald them in water and wine-vinegar. Then, we start to clean them by hand with a small knife. The cleaning consists in removing the external part in order to arrive to the core of the vegetables. This process requires a lot of time, great care and patience. In the end they are put in extra virgin olive oil and seasoned with fresh mint and hot chili pepper.

It takes its name from the particular purple colour that its leaves turn as it nears ripening. Grown from the month of October, it is gently harvested by hand in May. This artichoke is a true cure-all: it helps lower cholesterol levels, stimulate diuresis and regularise the intestinal functions.

Our Extra Artichoke Hearts are the top of our artichoke range. Crunchy, with a mild flavour, they are delicious when eaten on their own, ideal for garnishing fresh salads and perfect for enhancing and adding value to any dish, thanks to their natural freshness.

Our onions are cultivated in open field from february and picked by hand in the month of june, when they are fully mature. This kind of onion is a very sweet one with unmistakable taste. Each and every onion is washed, peeled, cut into slices and dried by using a fully natural method. 

This kind of artichokes can only be cultivated taking small plants from an already existent plantation. The cultivation starts in the beginning of October and the picking in the month of May. It is a very hard work and requires a lot of care: just think that, to pick a chase of these artichokes, we have to work for hours on fields of many hectares. The “candino” artichoke is the last one that is picked, in the month of May. The fresh artichokes end their working process within eight hours of being picked. This kind of artichoke is very tender. We remove the leaves and we turn it by hand with a small knife. Then it is scalded and is put in extra virgin olive oil.

The cultivation these artichokes starts in the beginning of October and the picking in April. The fresh artichokes end their working process within eight hours of being picked. This kind of artichoke is very tender. We remove the leaves and we turn it by hand with a small knife. Then it is scalded and is put in extra virgin olive oil and sunflower seed oil. No other ingredients or spices are added in order to valorize the unique taste of this product.

They are cultivated in open field in the month of May and picked by hand in August and September. They are washed, selected, peeled, cut in thin strips and laid to mature under salt. “Allucarcu” is a typical expression of our local speech and is the method used for this old technique.