Malta

Pastizzi

Name: Pastizzi
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Maltese
Ingredients: 2 sheets puff pastry; 2 cups green peas; 1 chopped onion; 1 tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); 1 tsp curry powder or garam masala garam masala; 1/4 tsp turmeric (ground turmeric); 1/4 tsp cumin powder (ground cumin); Salt, to taste; a pinch black pepper

Flaky Maltese pastries stuffed with curried peas. Basically a samosa that took a ferry to Malta.

60 minTime

8 gProtein each

mediumSpice

Malta's snack2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayPastizzi tal piżelli: flaky pastry with mushy pea filling. Ricotta is the other classic.

The original

445kcalsame

8 gproteinsame

4 gfibresame

60minutessame

Pastizzi.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Puff pastry2 sheets

Green peas2 cups

Onion1, chopped

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1 tbsp

Garam masala1 tsp curry powder or garam masala

Turmeric (ground turmeric)¼ tsp

Cumin powder (ground cumin)¼ tsp

Saltto taste

Black peppera pinch

Method

4 steps

1Cook the peas until soft, then mash roughly.
2Fry the onion in oil until soft, add spices, then the peas and salt. Cool.
3Cut the pastry into rounds, add a spoon of filling and fold into a diamond or boat shape, pinching the ends.
4Bake at 200 C until puffed and deep golden.

Serve it like this

Pile warm on a plate or in a paper bag. Serve with tea, Maltese style.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Malta

Pastizzi

Flaky Maltese pastries stuffed with curried peas. Basically a samosa that took a ferry to Malta.

60 minTime

8 gProtein each

mediumSpice

Malta's snack2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayPastizzi tal piżelli: flaky pastry with mushy pea filling. Ricotta is the other classic.

The original

445kcalsame

8 gproteinsame

4 gfibresame

60minutessame

Pastizzi.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Puff pastry2 sheets

Green peas2 cups

Onion1, chopped

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1 tbsp

Garam masala1 tsp curry powder or garam masala

Turmeric (ground turmeric)¼ tsp

Cumin powder (ground cumin)¼ tsp

Saltto taste

Black peppera pinch

Method

4 steps

1Cook the peas until soft, then mash roughly.
2Fry the onion in oil until soft, add spices, then the peas and salt. Cool.
3Cut the pastry into rounds, add a spoon of filling and fold into a diamond or boat shape, pinching the ends.
4Bake at 200 C until puffed and deep golden.

Serve it like this

Pile warm on a plate or in a paper bag. Serve with tea, Maltese style.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Pastizzi

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Ingredients

Method

Pastizzi

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

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