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🇲🇹 Traditional dishes from Malta

3 dishes people actually cook in Malta: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

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Bragioli

150 min · medium · 11 ingredients

Bragioli, a traditional dish from Malta

Savor the rich flavors of Maltese stuffed beef rolls!

  • 800 g beef flank steak
  • 1 onion
  • 2 garlic
  • 30 g parsley
  • 100 g hard cheese
  • 50 g breadcrumbs
  • 200 ml red wine
  • 500 ml beef stock
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper

Fenek

120 min · medium · 10 ingredients

Fenek, a traditional dish from Malta

Savor the rich flavors of Malta with this rabbit stew.

  • 1200 g rabbit
  • 60 ml olive oil
  • 200 g onion
  • 4 garlic
  • 150 g carrot
  • 250 ml red wine
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper

Pastizzi

90 min · medium · 8 ingredients

Pastizzi, a traditional dish from Malta

Delicious flaky pastries filled with ricotta cheese!

  • 500 g all-purpose flour
  • 200 g butter
  • 150 ml water
  • 300 g ricotta cheese
  • 1 egg
  • 30 g parsley
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper

What do people eat in Malta?

The three dishes from Malta documented in Copper are Bragioli, Fenek and Pastizzi. Garlic and olive oil each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are simmered. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 21 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Malta?

The three recipes need 21 ingredients between them, of which 5 are shared by more than one dish. Parsley and red wine are the hardest to find: of the 588 dishes in Copper's atlas, 25 use parsley and 5 use red wine. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Malta take?

Pastizzi is the quickest at 90 minutes. Bragioli is the longest at 150 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 120 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Malta is easiest to make at home?

None of the dishes from Malta here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Pastizzi is the shortest way in.

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