Granny's impanada and 'turn-turn'

There are 2 types of impanada that granny makes; the standard one (see above) and the local one known in sicilian as vota-vota ('turn-turn'). As you can see from the photo above, a standard impanada in any season will often include a potato, ham and dried tomato arrangement. Another classic of the vota vota style will include ricotta, onion and peas (that trio comes from the baroque town of Noto) or any combining of ricotta, ham and tomato.

To make the vota vota requires a little knack of being able to get the pasta dough into the above formation, and then fold again without losing any of the ingredients down the side of the table.

All impanadas use standard italian pizza dough (doppio 0 grain). Then it is just water, flour salt and yeast.

Sicilian pizza dough, however varies from this, as they like a fat pizza with little but powerful topping (in Sicily food says a lot more about the character and aspect of people than anything else; we Brits look like our pets, whereas they look like their pizzas!).