Maltese Baked Stuffed Marrows
This heart-warming dish is one of Malta’s traditional most loved comfort foods. They are generally filled with a mix of marrow, ground beef, and topped with parmesan cheese for that extra tastiness
Maltese Baked Stuffed Marrows
Ingredients
Marrow Filling:
Extra:
Method
Marrow filling -
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Remove the marrow filling and set aside.
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Sauté the onions in a little olive oil. When they start to soften add the ground beef and cook until no longer pink.
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Add the marrow filling and continue to cook until it's softened and incorporated with the ground beef.
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Add the gravy pot, curry powder, tomato paste and a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce. Cook for 1 minute then add the corned beef and continue to cook, stirring until its mixed well with the filling.
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Remove from heat, stir in 2 tbsp parmesan cheese, an egg and season with salt and pepper.
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Fill the marrows, top with extra parmesan cheese and freshly ground pepper.
Baking Marrows with Potatoes -
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Preheat oven to 190C/375F.
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Butter grease the base of a large baking dish and place the marrows.
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Add sliced onions and garlic in between. Top with sliced potatoes and again onions and garlic and scatter a few fennel seeds over the potatoes.
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Pour water over the potatoes until it reaches just a ¼ height in the dish. Scatter a few more fennel seeds over the potatoes, season them with salt and pepper and top with small cubes of butter.
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Cover the dish with foil and bake for 1½ hours. Remove foil, turn up the oven temperature a notch and cook for a further 30 minutes until golden and crispy. If your marrows are browning too fast and the potatoes aren't yet golden, tent them with a small piece of foil.
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Enjoy!
