# The best Maltese dishes

Pastizzi, rabbit stew, timpana, ftira and ġbejniet: the dishes of Malta and Gozo.

- 58 votes · 20 items
- Jun 29, 2020 · lucas_gymrat
- https://even.best/en/l/3523/the-best-maltese-dishes

## Top 20

1. **Timpana** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Baked macaroni and tomato sauce in pastry.
2. **Ħobż biż-żejt** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Bread with olive oil and tomato.
3. **Imqarrun** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Baked macaroni with meat sauce and egg.
4. **Pastizzi** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Flaky pastries filled with ricotta or peas.
5. **Ftira** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Maltese flatbread.
6. **Bragioli** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Thin stuffed and rolled slices of meat.
7. **Kawlata** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Cabbage and pork soup.
8. **Soppa tal-armla** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Widow's soup with fresh cheeselets and eggs.
9. **Stuffat tal-fenek** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Rabbit stew, the dish most tied to Maltese identity.
10. **Lampuka** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Dolphinfish, fried or baked in a pie.
11. **Aljotta** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Fish soup with plenty of garlic, herbs and tomato.
12. **Qassatat** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Pastries with ricotta or spinach filling.
13. **Bigilla** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mashed tic beans with garlic.
14. **Ross il-forn** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Baked rice.
15. **Zalzett tal-Malti** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Maltese pork sausage with coriander and pepper.
16. **Kannoli tal-irkotta** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ricotta-filled crisp pastry tubes.
17. **Ġbejniet** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Small round cheeses, fresh, peppered or sun-dried in Gozo.
18. **Imqaret** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Fried diamond-shaped date pastries.
19. **Qagħaq tal-għasel** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Honey and treacle rings.
20. **Figolla** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Easter almond pastry.

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