FOOD
| SUNDAY • 12 JANUARY 2020
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maltatoday
James Bartolo
Executive Chef
at Radisson Blu Resort
& Spa, Golden Sands
Pumpkin and rice pie
Ingredients
Method
• 500g short crust pastry
• 400g pumpkin
• 150g rice
• 1tbsp olive oil
• 100g chopped leeks
• 50 g sliced black olives
• 2tsp marjoram
• 6 anchovies fillets
• 200g canned tuna
1. A day before, cut the pumpkin into cubes and
add the washed rice.
2. Heat the olive oil in a saucepan and cook the
leeks. Mix with the pumpkin and rice.
3. Add the olives, marjoram anchovy, and the tuna.
4. Line a pie dish with pastry and fill with the
pumpkin mix. Cover with pastry.
5. Bake in hot oven at 180 degrees for 45 minutes.
