Likëngë

Likëngë are pork sausages flavored with salt, pepper and seed of fennel (farë mbrai). Characteristic of the ethnic Albanian Arbëreshë minority of Southern Italy, they are made in the Sicilian towns of Piana degli Albanesi and Santa Cristina Gela (today both part of the Metropolitan City of Palermo). "Likëngë" is the indefinite singular, "Likënga" is the definite singular and is cognate with the Italian Lucanica and the Greek Loukaniko.

See also

List of Sicilian dishes

References

External links

http://www.ciaoamerica.org/AlbaneseConnection.html

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