List of Maltese dishes

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)
  • Ful bit-tewm
  • Bigilla (mashed "Tic beans "known in Malta as "Ful Ta' Ġirba" (Djerba beans))
  • Galletti (Maltese biscuit)
  • Bebbux (escargot)

Soups

Kusksu is traditionally eaten during Lent.
  • Brodu (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)
  • Soppa tal-armla 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

Meat

Fish

Grilled calamari

Eggs and cheeses

Fruit, vegetables and sauces

Qargħabagħli mimli (stuffed marrows)

Savoury pastries

Pastizzi
Spinach and Pea Qassata with salted tuna, anchovies and herbs

Bread

Sweets

Qagħaq tal-ħmira

Beverages

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