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Maltese recipes

5 Maltese recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.

The 5 recipes cover 3 of the site’s categories, among them 3 dinners, 1 appetiser or small plate and 1 dessert. None of them is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For 3, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. All of them are marked medium.

As written, 2 are vegetarian, 1 gluten-free and 1 dairy-free.

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Maltese recipes — all 5 recipes

Maltese Pastizzi
Maltese
Prep
40m
Cook
25m
Serves
12
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Appetizers

Maltese Pastizzi

Flaky Maltese pastries of puff pastry filled with ricotta or mushy peas, baked for 25 minutes, the street snack of…

65 min · Medium
Maltese Rabbit Stew
Maltese
Prep
20m
Cook
90m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Maltese Rabbit Stew

Rabbit simmered for 90 minutes in red wine, tomato, garlic and bay, the national dish of Malta known as stuffat…

110 min · Medium
Timpana
Maltese
Prep
40m
Cook
90m
Serves
8
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Dinner

Timpana

Baked macaroni in a rich meat and tomato sauce with eggs and cheese, enclosed in shortcrust pastry and baked for 45…

3 hr · Medium
Maltese
Prep
30m
Cook
75m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Lampuki Pie

A Maltese pie of mahi mahi or firm white fish baked in pastry with spinach, cauliflower, olives and raisins, in 2…

2.5 hr · Medium
Imqaret
Maltese
Prep
40m
Cook
20m
Serves
20
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Desserts

Imqaret

Fried Maltese pastry diamonds filled with a spiced date paste, dough rested for 1 hour and fried in hot oil for 20…

2 hr+ · Medium