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gozotoday | FRIDAY • 14 MARCH 2025
FOOD
Maltese kusksu
Ingredients
(Serves 6 - 8)
• 1kg fresh broad
beans
• Half a tube or one
small jar kunserva
• 2 onions, peeled
and sliced
• 2 potatoes,
peeled and diced
• 100 - 150g kusksu
pasta (little
beads)
• 100g fresh or
frozen peas
• Salt and pepper
• 1 chicken or
vegetable stock
cube
• Parmesan cheese
• 6 fresh gbejniet
• 1½l water
• 2 tbsp butter and
2 tbsp olive oil
1. Prepare the beans by peeling twice.
2. Toss the chopped onions and diced
potatoes in butter and oil heated over
medium heat.
3. When vegetables are well coated, add
the prepared beans and toss once or
twice. Then add the kunserva and stir
well.
4. Add water to cover, as well as the
crumbled stock cube.
5. Season with salt and pepper and
continue to cook until the beans are
soft (approx. 20 mins).
6. Add the pasta beads, stir well, and
continue cooking, until these are
transparent, (approx. 20 mins).
7. Finally add the peas and cook a few
minutes longer until all the vegetables
and the pasta beads are tender.
8. Serve this soup with a sprinkling of
freshly grated Parmesan cheese, and
one gbejna per person.
Method
Make a traditional kusksu, with spring vegetables and fresh gbejniet
