List of Maltese dishes

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Some Maltese vegetable dishes

The following is a list of dishes in Maltese cuisine:

Appetizers[]

  • Żebbuġ Mimli (pitted green olives stuffed with tuna mixture)
  • Fażola bajda bit-tewm u t-tursin (White beans with parsley, garlic and olive oil)
  • Bigilla (mashed "Tic beans "known in Malta as "Ful Ta' Ġirba" (Djerba beans))
  • Galletti (Maltese biscuit)
  • (escargot)

Soups[]

Kusksu is traditionally eaten during Lent
  • (beef or chicken broth)
  • Minestra (Maltese version of minestrone, a thick soup of Italian origin made with vegetables)
  • Kusksu (vegetable soup with small pasta beads called kusksu and fresh broad beans in season)
  • Widow's Soup (vegetable soup with fresh cheeselets and beaten eggs)
  • Aljotta (fish soup with plenty of garlic, herbs, and tomatoes)
  • Kawlata (cabbage and pork soup)

Pasta and rice[]

A slice of timpana
  • Imqarrun (macaroni, bolognese style meat sauce, and egg casserole)
  • Timpana (macaroni and tomato sauce casserole)
  • (Ravioli and tomato sauxe)
  • (baked rice)
  • (small pasta beads with minced pork and cheese)
  • (fried omelette with vermicelli pasta)

Meat[]

  • (rabbit stew)
  • (fried rabbit)
  • Braġjoli (thin slices of meat that are stuffed and rolled as a roulade)
  • (steamed slices of beef)
  • (stuffed flank of pork)
  • (stallion meat, usually fried or baked in a white wine sauce)
  • Zalzett tal-Malti (a short, thick sausage made of pork, sea salt, black peppercorns, coriander seeds and parsley)
  • (Maltese blood sausage)

Fish[]

Grilled Calamari
  • Lampuka
  • (octopus stew)
  • (octopus with garlic)
  • (stuffed Calamari)
  • (fried swordfish)

Eggs and cheeses[]

  • Ġbejna (a small round cheese)
  • Froġa (omelette with ġbejna, broad beans or meat)
  • Balbuljata (scrambled eggs cooked with tomatoes and onions)

Vegetables and sauces[]

Qargħabagħli Mimli (Stuffed marrows)
  • (stuffed courgette)
  • (stuffed aubergine)
  • (stuffed peppers)
  • Patata l-Forn (baked sliced potatoes)
  • Kapunata
  • (Maltese Aioli which contains no egg)
  • (stuffed artichokes)

Savoury pastries[]

Pastizzi
Spinach and Pea Qassata with salted tuna, anchovies and herbs
  • (ricotta pie)
  • (vegetable, fish or cheese fritters);
  • Pastizzi
  • (qassata)
  • (rice and pumpkin pie)

Bread[]

Sweets[]

Qagħaq tal-ħmira
  • (soft sweet bagel shape cake with a hint of aniseed, topped with sesame seeds)
  • Imqaret (deep fried diamond-shaped pastry)[1][2]
  • Kannoli tal-irkotta (ricotta filled fried crisp pastry tubes)
  • (sweet toasted ravioli)
  • (date and cocoa tart)
  • (almond and chocolate pie)
  • (nut studded sesame seed and sugar halva)
  • (baked bread pudding with raisins and cocoa powder)
  • Prinjolata (Carnival sweet, made of biscuit and sponge cake covered with frosting and decorated with glacè cherries and melted chocolate)
  • Kwareżimal (Lenten almond biscuit scented with the zest of orange, lemon and Maltese mixed spice, cinnamon and orange blossom)
  • (Lenten honey drizzled squares of crisp deep fried pastry)
  • (Lenten hard candy flavoured with carob)
  • Figolla (Easter icing-coated biscuit stuffed with a mixture of sweet ground almonds called intrita)
  • (sweet bread roll, sweetened with mastic associated with Saint Martin's Day)
  • or tal-Qastanija (Christmas sweet rings made from a light pastry with a filling made of treacle, honey, semolina, citrus zest, cinnamon and cloves)
  • Għadam tal-mejtin (Pastry shaped in the form of a bone filled with almond paste)
  • Zeppoli

Beverages[]

  • Ġulepp tal-ħarrub (Carob Syrup)
  • Imbuljuta (Chestnut, Tangerine zest and Cocoa Drink)
  • Kafè (coffee boiled with aniseed, cinnamon sticks and/or rosewater)
  • Ruġġata (a drink made from cinnamon, vanilla, bitter almonds, sugar, water and milk similar to Italian 'orzata')
  • Te fit-Tazza (A local variety of Builder's Tea, traditionally served with condensed milk and sweetened in a glass)
  • Kinnie (A bittersweet soft drink)
  • Bajtra (a prickly pear-based liqueur)

References[]

  1. ^ Sweet Delights from a Thousand and One Nights: The Story of Traditional Arab Sweets, Habeeb Salloum, Muna Salloum, I.B.Tauris, Λονδίνο 2013, σελ. 132, ISBN 9781780764641
  2. ^ Proceedings of the First Congress on Mediterranean Studies of Arbo-Berber Influence, Micheline Galley, David R. Marshall, Société nationale d'édition et de diffusion, 1973

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