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
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Maltese Utensils
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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
- Pumpkin flowers stuffed with prawn (bong bi don thit)
- Market vegetables, cooked in a clay pot (u cu tay cam)
- Choko, stir fried with beef and garlic (trai su xao thit bo)
- Penne with prosciutto, peas and mint
- Green chilli and coriander steamed mussels
- Asparagus and green tea noodle salad with Thai prawns
- Zucchini flower fritters with feta and basil
- Corn chowder
- Corn fritters
- Udon soup with roast duck, broccoli and coriander

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Vietnamese dipping sauce
For an express dipping sauce for fresh rice paper rolls, combine hoi sin sauce with some chilli sauce and peanut butter!
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Sweet Indonesian or Malaysian dark soy sauce.


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