leccardu

/lehk-KAHR-doo/
[Italian]

A complex sauce from Sicily of the juices of meat or fish, often cooked on a spit, with wine or vinegar, ham, livers, capers and herbs, sometimes made more savoury with anchovy fillets. A tray is placed under the rotating meat to catch the juices and these ingredients are then mixed in. The tray is called a leccardu and the dish is also called by this name.

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