Raffadali’s Moro and Pistachio Panettone

The secret of Raf, the green gold of Raffadali, the pistachio now recognized with PDO Quality certification to protect agri-food biodiversity.

Christmas and the holidays, especially in Lombard and Milanese culture, impose the Panettone strictly of the specification, IButticè in respect of one of the most representative emblems of Lombard gastronomy have oriented themselves in proposing a Christmas cake that would take into account the art of the great Lombard leavened products, that is the Venetian born in the fifteenth century in Milan replacing the almond with pistachio.

Raffadali’s Pistachio in Il Moro’s Veneziana

Thinking of the Venetian as Raffadalesi transplanted to Lombardy for almost twenty years now, “we imagined an enveloping, soft, soft cloud with long and delicate olfactory notes”.

“We imagined that at every puff of “the Venetian with Pistachio” there would be a stop almost forced by the pleasure of taste and the desire to enjoy it without time marking the rhythm”.

“We imagined that after one bite the desire for the next becomes the full drive towards pleasure”.

Pistachio

The pistachio drupe, the green with purple and gray tendencies, the result of a plant that resists even in the most adverse and difficult conditions, resists drought and lack of soil, the pistachio the plant of the impossible.

And it is precisely from the pistachio casket that we draw out the sap, the green nectar, full of joy and seduction. An irresistible and bewitching organoleptic seduction, hence the concept of the secret.

Raf’s secret lies in his heart, he strips off his green robe to immerse himself in the velvety and creamy notes of pistachio.

Did you know that the two oldest pistachio trees in Sicily are located in Raffadali (AG) and are more than 600 years old?

Was one of the first Arab colonies, as an outpost, settled in Raffadali?

It is known that pistachio was brought to Sicily by the Arabs.