Sunday, 8 July 2012

Pastizzi

Pastizzi
These pastries come in two varieties: ricotta cheese or pea.  Not sure why these were the two finalists but there you go.  In your local pastizzeria you can find many other things stuffed inside pastry cases though, such as ham and cheese, hamburger, sausage (naturally), spinach or whatever you're having yourself.  They are very cheap, and they taste good, although they are probably not the healthiest foodstuffs in the world.

(Recently, Malta came second in a survey of the most obese nations in the European Union.  Just saying).




Here are a couple of the other options available in your friendly neighbourhood pastizzeria:

Wudy
Spinach Qassatat
Wudy:  Like a sausage roll, except the sausage is like a frankfurter, and has cheese in the middle of it.

 Qassatat:  Your vegetarian option, stuffed with cheese or spinach or peas, and a couple of these will provide enough calories to keep you going for most of the day.



Of course you'll also find a selection of pizza slices, but then I guess you know what those look like.




3 comments:

gillyb said...

I recently discovered pastizzi tal pizelli u bacon! Woohoo! take that, traditionalists! Jolly nice they were, too. We always bring back a suitcase full of frozen ones (and that isn't too much of an exaggeration! We just leave a little room for the bigilla, olives etc.) Can't beat pastizzi. Nom, nom.

Unknown said...

I had a chicken pastizzi today from the place at the bottom of Tower Road in Sliema. Best one I've tried, straight out of the oven.

gillyb said...

That'll be my next mission, to find chicken pastizzi...

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