Baked onion salad or Giarratana onion salad, a typical Sicilian summer dish together with Eggplants and onions baked in salad and Sicilian-style roasted pepper salad. The Giarratana onion is a white onion typical of the Ragusa area, characterized by particularly large sizes ranging from about 1.1 lb to 6.6 lb and by its typical sweet flavor. Recently added to the list of Italian agri-food products (P.A.T.) by the Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, the Giarratana onion is the star of many regional and local recipes. Used in the preparation of Scaccia ragusana with onion and tomato, it is also suitable for the preparation of Sicilian-style eggplant caponata and is often the undisputed protagonist of many salads, the most famous of which is the baked onion salad or “‘nsalata di cipudda nfunnata”. When bread used to be made at home and baked in a stone oven, often in summer after baking the bread the Giarratana onions and eggplants were also baked and thus, with bread, good oil and the fruits of the land, dinner was served. Let’s go to the kitchen, you’ll see that this typical Sicilian recipe will surprise you for its taste and simplicity and you’ll find yourself making this delicious salad often!

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