Seadas (sebadas)

A puffed, golden fried pastry on a white plate with dark amber honey pooled on top and running onto the plate. — Photo: Joselu Blanco, Flickr | CC BY 2.0
Seadas with honey
A seada with honey poured over it, Alghero, Sardinia, March 2012.

A drooping cluster of pink-tinged, bell-shaped flowers among glossy dark green leaves against a blue sky. — Photo: Giancarlo Dessì, Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0
Strawberry tree in flower
Strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) in flower at Villacidro, Sardinia, November 2006; its autumn flowers give Sardinia's bitter strawberry-tree honey.

A traditional Sardinian pastry still found served all over Sardinia. It was traditionally made to welcome the shepherds home from the winter pastures, and is now served as a dessert. The pastry is stuffed with fresh, slightly sour cheese, traditionally pecorino. Delicious with your favorite honey, but in Sardinia it is served with Sardinian honey; try it with strawberry tree, chestnut, thistle (cardo) or asphodel honeys.

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