maltatoday | SUNDAY • 27 MARCH 2022
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FOOD
Maltese pizza
with peas and
artichoke
Michael Diacono make a Maltese-style pizza
made with Maltese bread dough and fresh local
peas and artichokes.
Thursdays at 6:30pm on
TVM
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• ½ onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 red pepper, more or
less to taste
• 4 artichoke hearts,
peeled
• 2 handfuls broad
beans, peeled
• Salt and pepper
• ¼ lemon, juice only
• 500g Maltese bread
dough
• Handful parsley,
chopped
• Handful mint,
chopped
• 2 tbsp black olives
• 2 fillet anchovies (op-
tional)
• Handful rocket
• Grana Padano, shav-
ings
INGREDIENTS
METHOD
1. Heat the oil and allow the onion, garlic and red
pepper to soften.
2. Blanch the peas in salted boiling water for one
minute and immerse immediately in cold water
so that the peas keep their bright green colour.
3. Add the artichoke hearts, broad beans and peas.
4. Season with salt and pepper and add the lemon
juice.
5. Add enough water to cover the vegetables and
allow to simmer for 20 mins.
6. Add the fresh herbs, olives and anchovies, if
using, towards the end of cooking.
7. Allow the mixture to cool a little.
8. Grease the baking tray with olive oil.
9. Pull the dough into a round base.
10. Put the pea, bean and artichoke mixture onto the
dough and drizzle some olive oil
11. Bake in a hot oven for 20 – 30 mins until the
bread dough is golden.
12. Remove from the oven and add rocket leaves to
the top.
13. Add Grana shavings, a little olive oil and serve.
This recipe first appeared on
Gourmet Today TV, aired on TVM
on 2 October, 2015.
