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Pastizzi

Name: Pastizzi
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Malta
Ingredients: 4 Frozen puff pastry sheet; 200g Cottage Cheese; 1 Egg; 150g Green peas; 1/4 Onion; 1/2 tsp Curry Powder; A pinch Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 10g Butter

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Flaky pastry filled with ricotta or pea paste and baked — Malta's national snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pastizzi are Malta's most beloved snack: flaky pastry made of many thin layers filled with ricotta cheese or curried pea paste and baked. The cheese ones are always long and the pea ones round. Sold cheaply at pastizzerias on street corners, they're eaten from morning to night with tea or coffee.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a small bakery on a Maltese street corner, fresh long pastries go into paper bags and commuters eat them at a café's standing counter.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Frozen puff pastry sheet 4
Cottage Cheese 200g
Egg 1
Green peas 150g
Onion 1/4
Curry Powder 1/2 tsp
Salt A pinch
Black Pepper A pinch
Butter 10g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the cottage cheese with half the beaten egg, salt, and pepper.
Boil and mash the peas and mix with onion sautéed in butter, curry powder, and salt.
Half-thaw the puff pastry and cut into 10cm squares.
Wrap the cheese into long shapes and the peas into round ones, and brush with the remaining egg.
Bake at 200°C for 20 minutes until golden.

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