Calzoncelli
Fried chestnut-and-chickpea pastries
Little fried pastry parcels filled with a sweet chestnut or chickpea, cocoa and cinnamon paste, dusted with sugar, a Lucanian Christmas sweet.
Key ingredients
pastrychestnut or chickpeacocoacinnamon
What wine goes with Calzoncelli?
- Moscato Bianco A sweet Moscato lifts the spiced chestnut-and-cocoa filling.
- Basilicata IGT A regional sweet Malvasia or Moscato bottled as Basilicata IGT is the local dessert wine.