Maltese Food Guides and Recipe Collections

Choose a collection to find recipes that belong together, whether you are planning a family lunch, making pastry for the first time, or revisiting a favourite Maltese dish. Each guide groups recipes by what you want to cook and helps you choose where to start.

Start with Maltese food explained if the names are new to you. Use the ingredient guide for a small pantry, shopping labels, and substitutions abroad, or the complete recipe directory when you already know what you want to cook.

Look up ingredients and cooking words in the Maltese food glossary, or use the ġbejniet guide to choose between fresh, dried, and peppered cheeselets.

Compare flaky ricotta and pea pastries in the pastizzi guide, choose between stew and fried rabbit in the Maltese rabbit guide, or browse the Maltese soups collection.

For other dough projects, explore fillings and shaping in the qassatat guide or compare sandwich bread and the Gozitan bake in the ftira guide.

For November, explore the feast and its traditions in San Martin in Malta, then use the borża ta’ San Martin guide to put together a bag of nuts, dried figs, seasonal fruit and a sweet bun.

Planning to eat out? Our Maltese restaurants in Malta and Gozo connects official menus with recipes for the dishes you can try there.