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Making the Perfect Maltese Ftira Bread – Maltese Food Ftira recipe



Hi everyone, Pat here!
In my third video we crack the Maltese FTIRA! In my video I will show you how to make your own authentic Maltese FTRIA and how I like to serve it!

Traditional Maltese Ftira
by Patrick Pace

Follow the first video and follow the recipe for the maltese bread – but make it into a ring and cook as per this video – 40 mins on 250 degrees Celsius with fan assisted oven.

Bread Dough ( same as the Maltese Hobs recipe in video #1)
• 800 grams flour
• 200 grams biga (24hr dough from day previous gives it a sourdough flavour see last photo for recipe- make day before leave in fridge)
• 22 grams salt
• 7 grams instant yeast
• 800 mls water

Enjoy!

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32 Comments

  9. buitoni123456789

    Pat fabulous, thanks so much for showing me how to make my 1st successful Hobz, don't have to wait till I get to Malta on holiday now …

  10. Maree Camilleri

    Thanks Patrick Pace. Tried your ftira and was extremely happy with it, turned out perfect!! I’ve now tried your recipe for Maltese bread dough and ftira; next one will be your pizza dough. Thanks again. You’re the best 👍🏼👍🏼

  11. Cristina Borg

    Thanks for the recipe! Finally happy with the end result of my Maltese bread. Had some problems with the initial mixture being too runny, but after leaving it overnight in the fridge and also adding more flour and some yeast we managed to fix it and bake our ftiras. Tasted amazing and crust was very crunchy! Will definitely be doing it again, next time using a little bit less water.

  12. Martha Fenech

    Wow, proset tassew, vera ġietek sabiħa. Forsi mal-mili tista' żżid ftit tewm imqatta' rqiq. PROSET!

  15. Stefano Calleja

    Hi, had a go again this morning and I'm happy with the result…. Last week I did the hobza, today I tried the ftira and I'm more than pleased with the outcome…. Thanks for your videos

  18. Jason King

    When you spread the Kunserva on the bread slices, put olive oil and salt & pepper than brush the bread slices together, da Maltese way. Looking so yummy buddy.

  22. Sean Russo

    Hey Patrick I love your videos, these are amazing, idk if you’re still active but these have really helped me!

  24. rosettapstone

    Awesome!

    Try pickled onions sometime in the sandwich instead of gherkins. They go really well. Or kapar.

  31. Sky Ardee

    I'm wondering where you got the instructions for shaping or why you adopted that particular approach. In the Unesco documentary at https://youtu.be/NfTGYXMO5jo while it doesn't discuss methods in detail several shots clearly show the bread being flattened by pressing and stretching out by hand rather flatter and then tearing and shaping the hole in the center–totally different from what's shown here! I'm sure your bread is delicious, but if it's totally different in how it's made, it begs the question of what defines "ftira", and what led you to adopt the method shown here…? Just curious! I've been interested in this bread and couldn't find much online …

  32. Chris Hanratty

    We would always use the olive oil first and then either tomato puree or slice a big tomato in half and squash it and rub the juice into the bread. Leave the skin of the tomato on the bread if you like. Salt and pepper and the whatever you like on the top. Delicious. Great videos. Maltese bread is the best.

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