List of Maltese dishes
The following is a list of dishes in Maltese cuisine:
Appetizers
Soups
Pasta and rice
- Imqarrun
- Timpana
- Ross il-forn (baked rice)
- Għaġin Grieg (small pasta beads with minced pork and cheese)
- Froġa tat-tarja (fried omelette with vermicelli pasta)
Meat
- Stuffat tal-fenek (rabbit stew)
- Fenek moqli (fried rabbit)
- Braġjoli
- Laħam fuq il-fwar (steamed slices of beef)
- Falda Mimlija (stuffed flank of pork)
- Laħam taż-żiemel (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)
- Mazzit (Maltese blood sausage)
Fish
- Lampuka
- Stuffat tal-qarnit (octopus stew)
- Qarnit bit-tewm (octopus with garlic)
- Klamari mimlija (stuffed Calamari)
- Pixxispad (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
- Qarabagħli mimli (stuffed courgette)
- Brunġiel mimli (stuffed aubergine)
- Bżar mimli (stuffed peppers)
- Patata l-Forn (baked sliced potatoes)
- Kapunata
- Aljoli (arjoli) (Maltese Aioli which contains no egg)
- Qaqocc Mimli (stuffed artichokes)
Savoury pastries
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)
- Ravjul moqli (sweet toasted ravioli)
- Torti tat-tamal (date and cocoa tart)
- Torti tal-marmorat (almond and chocolate pie)
- Ħelwa tat-Tork (nut studded sesame seed and sugar halva)
- Pudina tal-ħobż (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)
- Ftira tar-Randan (Lenten honey drizzled squares of crisp deep fried pastry)
- Karamelli tal-ħarrub (Lenten hard candy flavoured with carob)
- Figolla (Easter icing-coated biscuit stuffed with a mixture of sweet ground almonds called intrita)
- Ħobża ta' San Martin (sweet bread roll, sweetened with mastic associated with Saint Martin's Day)
- Qagħaq tal-għasel 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)
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References
- 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
- 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
External links
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