Name: Maltese Bigilla
Yield: Serves 4 to 6 as a dip with bread
Cuisine: Maltese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra to serve; 1 whole head of garlic, all cloves peeled; 1 red chilli, trimmed and diced; 1 tablespoon fresh chopped mint; 1 tablespoon fresh chopped marjoram; 100 g fresh broad beans, boiled and peeled; 2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley; 450 g dried fava beans (broad beans)

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6
as a dip with bread

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Lavender & Lovage

By Karen Burns-Booth

Published 2019

About

One of the best things about travelling is the opportunity to taste new food, and this recipe for Bigilla is just one of the many that I “collected” on my travels. Bigilla is a Maltese speciality. It’s a dip that is made out of dried fava beans (broad beans) with just the right amount of chilli peppers added to give it a spicy kick, whilst the mint cools things down a bit and adds to the special flavour of this deliciously rustic dip and spread. In Malta they use the local beans called “Tic