Maltese Cuisine
About Maltese Food
The rocky island of Malta is home to some beautiful rustic recipes that sing of Mediterranean flavour and freshness. Maltese cuisine is truly peasant cuisine, using vegetables in season, home-made cheeses and some of the cheaper cuts of meat. These are cooked slowly with fresh tomatoes, parsley and garlic to create tender stews with lots of flavour.
One of the famous meat dishes is bragioli or beef olives, a rolled stuffed piece of meat cooked slowly. Rabbit is also extremely popular and many Maltese families raise their own. Meals are large and served communally - the famous baked pasta pie timpana generally feeds a small army of people.
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Key Ingredients
Maltese Food
Make sure your kitchen is stocked with these essential ingredients.
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Maltese Utensils
Find out which special utensils you’ll need on hand during cooking.
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Maltese Restaurants
Displaying 4 of 4 Maltese Restaurants.
| Restaurant | Suburb | |
| 1. | The Original Maltese Cafe | Surry Hills |
| 2. | Maha | Melbourne |
| 3. | Pastizzi Cafe | Newtown |
| 4. | Cafe Valletta | Sydney |
Featured Recipes
- Stage 1: Onion and anchovy pizza (pissaladière)
- Christmas trifle
- Lemony chicken
- Teriyaki chicken undon stir fry for mia
- Peking duck and hoisin rice-paper rolls
- Lamb shank, vegetable and barley broth
- Corn fritters with crisp bacon and spiced tomatoes
- Basil frittata with smoked salmon, rocket and horseradish cream
- Chocolate brownies
- Rocket, fig, blue cheese and crispy prosciutto salad

Hot Tips
Toasting spices
Toasting whole spices in a dry pan can help to bring out the essential oils and the flavour in the spice, however be careful to taste as you add the spice to your dish as the flavour will have changed and you may need less. Toasting pre-ground spices is a little trickier and it can ruin the flavour of the spice altogether.
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Sushi
A Japanese specialty based on moulded rice patties flavoured with rice vinegar. It comes as maki - rolled in Nori seaweed, or nigiri - slices of fresh raw seafood or other delicacies laid across the rice patty.


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