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  • noun A Maltese pasty filled with ricotta or peas.

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Examples

  • This puts it closer to the empanada and then, in the ever-widening circle of related pastries, to the samosa, the gyoza, the pierogi, the pastizzi and the won ton.

    What I cooked last night. 2007

  • Best to start any tour with the traditional Maltese pastizzi, a ricotta - or pea-filled pastry, at the Malta Bake Shop (3256 Dundas West, 416-769-2174).

    NOW Magazine 2009

  • Try a puff pastry pastizzi, stuffed with ricotta cheese.

    Mirror.co.uk - News 2009

  • One cannot even stop for a few seconds to buy a couple of pastizzi from the shop on the corner as he is slapped with a fine.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • Half a dozen pastizzi and a Kinnie could have been sold to Mr. Kmiec if he was allowed to get away with that mighty amount of cannabis and he lit it up.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • 22:58 Gyoza are like what would happen if pierogi and pastizzi had a baby.

    Planet-x.com.au » SPACE BATTLESHIP GODDAMN – Tweet Tweet 2010

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