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 Typical dishes
Aljotta - A fish soup with lots of garlic. A traditional summer dish when the fishermen go out at sea.
Bigilla - White beans with butter, salt, pepper, garlic and parsley to a fine paste crushed. Bigilla is a delicious spread.
Bragioli - Beef roulade with a spicy filling of bacon, egg, olives and herbs.
Cartoccio - Whole fish or fillets with garlic, onions, tomatoes, capers, lemon and a dash of white wine.
Fenkata - Rabbit menu. As a starter, spaghetti sauce with rabbit admitted, as a main dish, rabbit in red wine sauce with fine vegetables.
Kapunata - Tomatoes, green peppers, eggplant and garlic, to sizzle as side dish a starter.
Kawlata - Vegetable soup with Maltese smoked sausage.
Lampuki - Malta's most popular fish, only September / October available, with onions, garlic, tomatoes and capers steamed or baked in crust.
Qarnita stuffat (Octopus Stew) - Octopus ragout, with olives, onions, nuts, raisins and peas in a tasty white wine sauce.
Ravjul (Ravioli) - Samosa with a filling of ricotta and parsley.
Ross fil-forn - A rice dish with minced meat, eggs, tomatoes and saffron.
Soppa ta'l-armla - Soup made of white and green vegetables, served with a piece of fresh goat cheese (gbejna), also called widow's soup.
Timpana - Macaroni crowd with a filling of beef, pork liver, ham, eggs, Parmesan and tomatoes.
Snacks
Hobz biz-Zejt - Literally it means "bread with oil," but actually it is a kind of Mediterranean hamburger: Malta-Crispy bread with is brush with oil, puree of tomatoes, tuna, olives and capers.
Biscuits and Sweets
Imqaret - In oil fried samosa filled with dark anise dates.
Kannoli - Crispy pasta tubes stuffed with cremy ricotta and candied
Fruit.
Qubbajt - Its like Turkish honey and is certainly a direct Arab heritage. There are many flavor varieties of nuts to Orange.
Drinking
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