Winter is the season of snow, lights, Christmas, but above all Sicilian Oranges. Our 2019 Ribera oranges first harvest a has just arrived, following their seasonality, and they will every week freshly harvested from the producer, brought to us and promptly shipped to you. The riberella dop are the one and only pdo Italian oranges, so juicy and tasty as the Sicilian sun allows them to be, due to the uniqueness of that specific part of the region. Buy Sicilian oranges from Ribera, in different kind as juice oranges, table oranges and Sicilian Ribera Oranges Fioroni (Arance di Ribera Washington Fioroni).

The products that can boasts the slow food presidium are few, in this limited list you can find the Pesca di Leonforte (Leonforte yellow Peach). The characteristic that distinguishes this variety from the other is very unusual: before the maturation the farmers close each peach in a paper bag, a long, hard and expensive process but it make sure the natural protection from parasites and a tasty fuit. Agrirape, Sicilian agricultural company, starts right from the Pesca Gialla di Leonforte for its Leonforte yellow peaches jam - Agrirape Copparella jam, so the result could be nothing but great. 80% of fruit, brown sugar and lemon juice are the only ingredients of the Agrirape jams, a simplicity that is possible only due to the absolute quality of the fruit and the slow processing, but repay the patient with a genuine taste.

The oranges season isn’t over yet, every Monday, directly from Sicily the Ribera Sicilian oranges arrive to our stock. In the photo you can see the Sicilian Ribera Juice Oranges (Arance di Ribera Dop), the smallest oranges but endowed with great juiciness. The taste intensity makes the orange juice pleasantly sweet and fresh, without forgetting the outstanding contribute in terms of vitamins#. The organoleptic properties of the Arance di Ribera D.O.P. of the Azienda Agricola Guarraggi keep perfectly unaltered due to the total lack of chemical treatments, to which the company have omitted renouncing to a perfect skin standard, preferring an higher quality of the final product.

Look at the incredibile colors of the Sicilian lemons from Ribera by the Azienda Agricola Guarraggi. Sicilian lemons 100% natural and non treated that, differently from the traditional yellow ones, acquire an exotic green shades color and a precious source of Vitamin C. The Ribera Lemons are renowned for their intense flavor and their juiciness, versatile in every recipe both for the juice and the zest, which often reveal themselves the ingredient that give the decisive spark to complete a dish due to the unique acidity and freshness.

Why not starting the day drinking a fresh squeezed juice from Ribera oranges? The sweetness of the Sicilian Ribera Juice Oranges (Arance di Ribera) dop is a panacea for your palate and your health too, coming from just harvested and not treated 100% natural oranges. For this reason maybe the skin won’t be perfect, which is an adjective that does not exist in nature, but that’s why they’re so good.

On Monday the first Ribera Oranges of the season are coming, after the difficulties due to the road practicability caused by the recent floods. By ordering them during the week end, they will be shipped on Monday, just harvested on this morning and in few hours you will have the true taste of Sicily on your tables. The Riberella DOP oranges , coming from the Azienda Agricola Guarraggi located in Ribera, are available in three kind, all of them 100% and not treated with chemical products (a completely perfect skin isn’t possible in nature) fit for every need: the fioroni oranges (sweeter and juicier), the table oranges and the juice oranges. Moreover other Sicilian citrus coming from the same area of Ribera are available, as the pink grapefruit, clementines and mandarins.

It’s almost time! Pre order on our store now the Arance di Ribera dop, the most renowned Sicilian oranges. Indeed Ribera is the oranges locality par excellence, as the creation of a personal DOP disciplinary testify, which moreover guarantee the lack of any chemical additive or treatment. This variety distinguish itself from the others for its particularly sweet blonde pulp lacking of seeds and bitterness, the great organoleptic properties balance (vitamin A, B1, B2, C, sugars and mineral salts) and the exceptional ease to digest, so that it can be eaten after dinner too. There are three varieties available: Sicilian Ribera Oranges Fioroni (Arance di Ribera Washington Fioroni), Juice oranges of Sicily Ribera and Sicilian Ribera Oranges Table Navel variety (Arance di Ribera da Tavola), it is also possible to add Sicilian lemons Di Ribera, Pink Grapefuit sicilian from Ribera - Azienda Agricola Guarraggi and Sicilian Ribera Clementines/Mandarins - Az. Agricola Guarragi, composing your customized box.

Everybody, from children to adults, love drinking a sweet and fresh fruit juice. Unfortunately, most of the fruit juice that can be found on the market have a low fruit content and an high percentage of sugar, chemical additives and preservatives in order to make the product sweeter and keep longer. The Azienda Agricola Punto Verde itself cultivates the fruits, respecting the BIO Organic disciplinary through specific treatments (as the organic fertilizing) and rigorous controls. The result are juices with an 80% content of fruit, that don't need great amount of sugar to be pleasantly sweet. Moreover they don't contain any preservative or thickener, let feeling the authentic taste of the fruits cultivated in accordance with the best practice. Many variants are available: FRUIT JUICE ORGANIC APRICOT - FrullaBio, FRUIT JUICE WITH ORGANIC APPLE - FrullaBio, KIWI FRUIT JUICE ORGANIC - FrullaBio, OGANIC PEACH FRUIT JUICE - FrullaBio, ORGANIC BLUEBERRY FRUIT JUICE - FrullaBio, ORGANIC PEAR FRUIT JUICE - FrullaBio.

If you haven’t already tried the P.D.O Ribera Oranges of Sicily, hurry up, they’ll be available only for few weeks. OIP sustains and promotes the natural products seasonality, in order to give the best possible products. As a consequence the Ribera oranges supply of the varieties Fioroni Oranges (Arance di Ribera Washington and Juice oranges of Sicily Ribera goes from the beginning of December to March nearly.

What a better start than a great orange juice for breakfast? It gives you both an unique sweet taste and a good quantity of Vitamin C to begin your day with the right energy. The Juice oranges of Sicily Ribera contain the best juice you will ever be able to find, as they're grown exclusively in the best part of Sicily (and of the world too) for oranges due to the unique climatic conditions and the particularly clay-rich soil. These Sicilian oranges are 100% natural and NOT treated with any chemical product or fertilizer, therefore they're skin isn't always perfect and shiny like the ones you find commonly.

Maybe it is not well know as other citrus as lemons or oranges, but the bergamot of Calabria is certainly an excellent product both for its taste and its beneficial properties. Usually it is used as a base to give flavor to liqueurs to spirits, but also its juice is particularly good, moreover many essences and extracts contain it as the main element also thanks to is exceptional properties against cholesterol. It has been shown and certified that bergamot grows at its best only in this particular area of Calabria obtaining the PDO certification as the unique characteristics of this product depends strictly on its native territory.

If you're searching for an original christmas present (or simply a present), don't worry, we have the right answer for you. The Citrus fruits of Sicily"Ribera" wooden crate - Ag. Company Guarraggi 6 kg. Oranges for juice 6 Kg. Oranges Fioroni Washington 3 kg. Clementine 2 kg. Natural Lemons is a true representative of the best Italian Oranges and Lemons, a gift that will assure the receiver's appreciation. Product description: The Agricultural Company Guerraggi (italian excellences 2016) is placed in Ribera, Magone locality, almost 4kms far form the sea, in the middle of an area in which the best Sicilian oranges have been being produced for centuries. The products we're selling are "Washington Navel" quality oranges, and there are 3 available varieties: the juice (smaller), the table and the fioroni (very big). The Guaraggi farm belongs to the consortium of Ribera oranges DOP and has applied for recognition of the IGP EU quality label for the Sicilian Ribera oranges.

From today it is possible to order Sicilian Ribera oranges on our website. These aren't the average Sicilian oranges ones (which are a very good product anyway), they're from Ribera, the best place in the world to grow the sweetest and most juicy oranges with the ideal balance between sugars and acids. Our offer includes 3 kinds of oranges: Fioroni Oranges (Arance di Ribera Washington) Fioroni, Juice oranges of Sicily Ribera and Orange table Sicilian Ribera. Maybe you won't find a shining and perfect peel, but it is due to the total lack of any chemical treatment which make their as natural as possible.

If you have ever visited central Italy it's impossibile that you haven't come across a a shop or food truck selling a magnificent sandwich with Porchetta. It is difficult to establish precisely the year of the born of this product, but it was surely invented before the Romans. This recipe has reached its highest expression in a small village in the province of Rome called Ariccia, that nowadays, thanks to this gastronomic excellence, has an important place in the most famous culinary guides and books. What mainly characterizes the Porchetta di Ariccia IGP is the awsome crunchiness of the bacon rind, obtained thanks to a precise cooking. The meats used come exclusively from porks born, bred and butchered in Italy and are perfectly balanced in a 70-30% proportion between the thin and the fat parts. It is season using only products cultivated in Italy as rosemary, garlic, fennel seeds, finally a lot of black pepper and good sea salt. All the Ariccia porchetta producers would agree that the best way to appreciate this product is a simple sandwich, in this case "less is more". So we're giving you our personal recipe: sandwich with Porchetta di Ariccia IGP, argula and home made mayonnaise. Firstly toast 2 slices of a good Stonebaked organic Pugliese type bread - Forno Astori. Meanwhile in a mixer put two eggs and turn on the mixer adding the seeds oil little by little. When the mayonnaise will be beaten add some Sicilian lemons Verdelli juice and season with some salt (and a touch of mustard too if you like it). Put the mayonnaise on the lower slice of bread, then the arugula and finally abundant porchetta. With this sandwich we recommend to drink a decise character beer like OI Beer.

Appetizers are the ideal course to stimulate fantasy in the kitchen and try different taste within the same meal, going from cold cuts and meat from raw fish and vegetables. Today we're giving you a good idea for a tasty, fresh but also healthy appetizer: shrimps tartare with avocado sauce, zucchini and carasau bread. Ingredients: fresh shrimps, avocado, lime, Red onion Tropea / Montoro Onions (second season) or Red garlic from Nubia, Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, Fine sea salt, black pepper, zucchini, Carasau bread. Clean the shrimps taking out the intestines, then cut them into very small pieces. Put some pieces of the minced shrimps together between 2 sheets of oven paper and flatten with a meat mallet, so put the tartare in the freezer until they will be served. For the avocado sauce is better use an avocado as mature as possibile (it will be softer), so peel the avocado e put its pulp in the mixer together with some lime juice, minced onion or garlic (less), Evo oil, salt and black pepper. Cut the zucchini (or any seasonal vegetable you like) into small cubes and stir fry them in a pan with some evo oil seasoning them with black pepper. Finally take the tartare out of the freezer and put it on a flat plate, place the zucchini and carasau bread on, while the avocado sauce beside to garnish.

Today we're suggesting you an elegant but simple and quick recipe thanks to the quality of our red tuna which doesn't need much cooking or processing to show its incredible taste and freshness. For this recipe we are using the so called ventresca which is red tuna belly that is to say the finest and fattest part of red tuna. So here you are Black and white sesame crusted red Sicilian tuna with soaked black chickpeas hummus and coffee mayonnaise. Ingredients: 100 g of red tuna ventresca; hummus; mayonnaise and coffee powder For the hummus: 50 g of sesame seeds, 300 g of pre-cooked chickpeas; 75g (cl) of hot water; the juice of a lemon; sesame oil; 1 spoon of paprika; 1 garlic clove; parsley; salt and pepper. (normally hummus should be made in a "Suribachi" but a mixer will be ok too) Peel the garlic eliminating the core and chopping it up and chop up parsley too. Toast the sesame seeds in a pan for 2-3 minutes. Put the seeds in a mixer adding flush sesame oil, salt, water; then unite the cooked chickpeas and continue to amalgamate them adding the rest of the ingredients until the result will be uniform. For the mayonnaise: 2 eggs; seeds oil; juice of half lemon. Put the eggs in a mixer and add gradually slush seeds oil until the sauce reaches the right consistency. When the sauce consistency will be fine add the lemon juice and in the end only a little coffee powder (not too much as coffee has a very strong taste). Put the ventresca on a baking tray in an hot oven at 180 degree with some olive oil putting some sesame seed on the tips of the tuna and cooked for nearly 4 minutes (but you have to control it in order not to make it too cook). Put the hummus first in a soup plate, garnish with coffee mayonnaise and put the red tuna on the top.

Musetto - Salumificio Lovison is the exclusive product by Lovison Friulian agricultural company, this specialty was invented 110 years ago by the company's founder Agostino Lovison. But the reason that distinguish theirs from other great quality producers's too is the use of the noble parts of the pork head from only Friulian pork meat bred using ogm free animal feeds and a secret mixture of spices among which cinnamon,coriander,nutmeg,cloves and pepper. The great Italian 2 michelin stars awarded chef Carlo Cracco has introduced a recipe with the Musetto Lovison in his restaurant menù: Ravioli stuffed with Musetto with vegetable mostarda. Ingredients: For the pasta: 1 kg of 00 flour, 8 egg yolks, 1 whole egg, 20g of Italian extra virgin olive oil For the stuffing: 200g of Musetto Lovison, 80g of stewed savoy mash (make the savoy brownish with 50g of onion, pour with some water and salt, cook fro 1 hour at least. blend with the mixer adding the Musetto Lovison, season with salt and pepper. For the mostarda: 80g of vegetables mostarda (cut into pieces), 80g of celeriac julienne cut. With the flour, eggs, evo oil and salt make an Italian fresh pasta. Roll out the dough, put some stuffing and give the cappelletto shape. Cook the ravioli for 3 minutes in boiling salted water and then stir fry with some calf juice. Put in the plate together with mostarda, celeriac and serve it.

If after some day your fresh red tuna it is not as fresh as it has arrived and there are still some left-overs don't worry, we have the right recipe for you. We're talking about pasta with tuna, purely mediterranean style pasta dish with capers,cherry tomatoes, almonds and olives, this recipe will bring you all the tastes and freshness of the mediterranean diet in a quick, simple but very tasty and genuine recipe Ingredients: 400g of Paccheri - Pasta Bossolasco; 200g of Sicilian red tuna, salted Sicilian capers; 200g of cherry tomatoes; 3 spoons of chopped taggiasche olives; toasted Sicilian almonds, Italian extra virgin olive oil and salt. First put some extra virgin olive oil in a pan, then cut in 2 halves the cherry tomatoes and add them to make them cook and extract the juice. Then add the red tuna and cook with cherry tomatoes and after one minute add the rest of the ingredients (capers, olives and toasted almonds) cooking together for 2 minutes (not too much otherwise the tuna will be chewy). In the meanwhile boil paccheri bossolasco in boiling salted water for 12 minutes (read how many minutes on the pack for each kind of pasta), drain the pasta and make it stir fry with the other ingredients adding the oregano for one minutes in order to amalgamate well and "buon appetito".

Did you know that Apricot jam Agrirape was named the best Italian apricot jam by Gambero Rosso in 2013? This result has been achieved thanks to the natural method of cultivation without any fertilizer in order to maintain the best taste and the great organoleptic properties. The secret are the simplicity of the ingredients, in fact the fruit percentage in the product is very high (75%), accompanied only by brown sugar and lemon juice.