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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.

What can you cook from Malta? 3 traditional Malta dishes, from Bragioli (125 min, the quickest) to Fenek (840 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.

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Bragioli

2 hours and 5 minutes · medium · 12 ingredients

Bragioli, a traditional dish from Malta

Thin beef slices rolled around a stuffing of minced pork, beef and smoked speck, then braised slowly in red wine and tomato until the rolls can be cut with a spoon.

  • 600 g thin beef topside steaks
  • 250 g minced pork
  • 250 g minced beef
  • 100 g smoked speck
  • 2 onions
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 50 g breadcrumbs
  • 50 g grated parmesan
  • 2 tbsp parsley
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • 250 ml red wine
  • 250 ml beef stock

Fenek

14 hours · medium · 11 ingredients

Fenek, a traditional dish from Malta

Malta's national dish: rabbit marinated overnight in red wine, then stewed and eaten as two courses, the sauce over spaghetti first and the meat after.

  • 1200 g rabbit, jointed
  • 500 ml red wine
  • 4 bay leaves
  • 6 clove garlic
  • 400 g peeled tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • 150 g onion
  • 600 g potatoes
  • 400 g spaghetti
  • 50 ml olive oil
  • 1 pinch salt and black pepper

Pastizzi

4 hours and 10 minutes · hard · 7 ingredients

Pastizzi, a traditional dish from Malta

A lard-laminated dough stretched paper thin, coiled and pinched into an open diamond around ricotta or curried peas.

  • 250 g lard
  • 500 g plain flour
  • 200 ml water
  • 500 g ricotta
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp white pepper

What do people eat in Malta?

Copper documents three dishes from Malta: Bragioli, Fenek and Pastizzi. Garlic and onion each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are simmered. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 26 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Malta?

The three recipes need 26 ingredients between them, of which 4 are shared by more than one dish. Red wine the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 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?

Bragioli is the quickest at 125 minutes. Fenek is the longest at 840 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 250 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. Bragioli is the shortest way in.

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