What to Eat in Nova Siri: Flavours of Farmhouse Tradition

Nova Siri has a simple, genuine cuisine, built on a handful of ingredients and techniques passed down through families for generations. Here are the dishes and products that best tell the story of this village’s table.

Focaccia and chard-filled calzone

Homemade focaccia is a classic that accompanies almost every meal, plain or filled. Also much loved is the chard-filled calzone: a simple dough folded around a filling of sautéed chard, a humble dish in its ingredients but rich in flavour, still made today much as it always was.

Frizzuli with meat sauce and breadcrumbs

Among the first courses, frizzuli is the area’s true speciality: a hand-made fresh pasta, worked on a knitting needle until it takes on its distinctive long, hollow shape. It’s dressed with meat sauce and breadcrumbs, often toasted until crisp — a contrast of textures that makes this one of the most representative dishes of local cuisine.

Sausage and Lucanian soppressata

Pork has a long working tradition throughout the area, and in Nova Siri that translates above all into sausage and soppressata lucana, cured meats made to family recipes and still appreciated well beyond the village itself.

Fave e cicorie (fava bean purée with chicory)

Among the oldest dishes of southern Italian farmhouse cooking, fave e cicorie — a fava bean purée served with sautéed chicory — remains a classic in Nova Siri too: a humble, vegetarian dish that manages to tell centuries of local cooking in a single bite.

If you’re staying at Terrazzo sullo Ionio, these are some of the flavours we’d suggest seeking out during your stay, ideally letting the season and what the land is offering at that moment be your guide.