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.

Watercolour illustration of golden boat-shaped pastizzi filled with savoury white ricotta.

Maltese street food

Explore Malta's snack foods and make them at home: flaky pastizzi, open-topped qassatat, bread with tomato and tuna, Gozitan ftira, and date pastries.

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