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Tomatoes and conserves from south-east Sicily, wrapped in the painted art of the Sicilian carretto. Sauces, pestos, pantry preserves and sun-dried tomatoes made for the premium Sicilian table.

Rosso di Sicilia — passata and risotto

Who we are

Conserve from the heart of Ragusa.

Giuseppe Rosso Conserve di Sicilia has been making preserves and ready sauces since 1997, bringing together experience, innovation and the food traditions of the Ragusa province and south-east Sicily.

Today those traditions endure — and give life to extraordinary products built on sound, genuine raw materials, without preservatives or thickeners.

Rosso di Sicilia — conserves, bread and aubergine

The House

Rooted in south-east Sicily.

1997

Producing conserves and ready sauces in the Ragusa province.

2020

The Rosso di Sicilia brand is born, with carretto art.

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Beside Europe's largest produce hub — Vittoria, Santa Croce, Pachino.

BIO

Certified BIO, IFS Food and ISO 14001:2015.

Producer profile

Why Rosso di Sicilia belongs in the ZAGARA selection.

Heritage

A Ragusa conserve house since 1997, pairing decades of experience with a modern, certified production.

Origin

Set beside the Vittoria–Santa Croce–Pachino triangle, Europe's largest produce hub, for km-zero Sicilian fruit and vegetables all year round.

Craft

An aversion to additives: sound, genuine raw materials, with no preservatives and no thickeners — ingredients fried one by one.

Certifications

Quality guaranteed through BIO, IFS Food and ISO 14001:2015 certifications, across both conventional and organic lines.

The brand

A Sicily painted by master cart-painters.

Born in 2020, the Rosso di Sicilia label is framed by images painted for the house by two master carrettieri of Ragusa — the colours and figures of a Sicily that lives on as a cultural model known around the world.

Rosso di Sicilia — cart art, paladins
Rosso di Sicilia — cart art, Moor's head

The range

The Rosso di Sicilia world.

Sauces & condiments

Ready in minutes

Sugo alla Norma, Eoliana, Caponata di melanzane and Sugo ai peperoni — Sicilian classics, with vegetables fried one by one, not pre-cooked.

Sauces & passate

Cherry & datterino tomato

Ready cherry- and datterino-tomato sauces and a deliberately un-seasoned passata, in conventional and organic versions, in the signature beer bottle.

Pestos

Basil, almond, pistachio

Pesto Rosso Siciliano, Pesto of basil, ricotta & almond, and the timeless Pistachio pesto — fresh, delicate and made for pasta and beyond.

Sott'olio & Bruschè

Pantry preserves

Sun-dried tomato, capuliato, semi-dried cherry tomato, aubergine, artichoke and chilli in oil — plus the Bruschè line of eight finely chopped spreads.

Honest by nature

Sound, genuine, Sicilian.

Sicilian fruit and vegetables, km-zero from the island's richest produce district, turned into conserves with no preservatives and no thickeners.

No preservativesIFS FoodISO 14001No preservatives24-month shelf life

Products

Explore the Rosso di Sicilia selection.

Sauces, pestos, pantry preserves and seasonal specialties.

Through ZAGARA Selection

Rosso di Sicilia in Australia.

The colours, the carretto art and the sun-rich produce of south-east Sicily, now on the Australian table.

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