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Gemista – Stuffed Vegetables
This is defiantly the ultimate Greek Summer dish, this is how you know that summer has arrived when everyone is cooking this amazing Greek specialty!! Make it only in the summer when the tomatoes are full of flavor and aromas and the garden pots are full of fresh...
Tyganopsomo (fried bread dough)
Another traditional dish from the Lakonia region. Fried bread dough, served with local honey or cheese of your choice or even better… both!!! An easy and quick recipe made at any time of the day, loved by young and old folks!!! This recipe was made for Savor Greece by...
Kayiana (eggs with cheese and siglino)
Traditional egg recipe from Lakonia, Greece. Almost like scrambled eggs, cooked with tomato, hard white local cheese and siglino; another traditional local cold meat made from brined, smoked pork and flavored with oranges. This dish was cooked for Savor Greece S1E12...
Bouyiourdi (spicy baked feta cheese)
One of the many wonderful dishes originating from Thessaloniki with baked feta cheese, tomatoes, peppers and other spices, preferably spicy. Usually served in parchment paper and spicy and thus fits the story of the word. The word boujurdi originally meant the written...
Astakomakaronada (Lobster Spaghetti)
Ingredients Live lobster Onion chopped 3tbsp Garlic chopped 1tsp Olive oil (evoo) 1/4cup White wine 1cup Tomato paste 2tbsp diluted in 1/2cup hot water Rosemary 1tsp Thyme 1tsp Dried spearmint 1tsp Salt and pepper Boiling water 1litre (4cups) Spaghetti 250gr (8oz)...
Patatopita (potato-pie)
A beautiful and delicious recipe from Nikoleta Foskolou and her “Perivoli tis Nikoletas” or Nikoletas Orchard in Tinos Island. She gives cooking classes to visitors using only products that come from her own orchard that surrounds her home. Ingredients Potatoes 2kilos...
Kolokithakia Papoutsakia (stuffed zucchini shoes)
From Nikoleta Foskolou. Nikoleta is the owner of “Perivoli tis Nikoletas” Nikoletas Orchard in the island of Tinos. She is an Arthur of many cooking books as well as a cooking instructor to traditional Tinian recipes using products that she grows in her own orchard....
Traditional Cretan Kakavia soup
Kakavia is a soup made traditionally by the fishermen in the boats after their fishing. They use the fish that don’t sell easy at the fish market, the use of sea water, onions and potatoes that are easy to bring with maybe some lemons and eaten with chunks of bread to...
Riganada, a traditional Kefalonian snack
An every hour of the day snack, you can find it around Greece with a few variations and different ingredients. In this recipe Niovi Kampitsi Fotinatou gives us the traditional Kefalonian way. Ingredients Stale sour dough bread Olive oil Pomegranate vinegar Fresh...
Avrakoti – Traditional Kefalonian Cheese pie
A quick and easy cheese pie that took the name Avrakoti (with no pants) because of the fact that doesn’t have any phyllo pastry!!! Very plain which gives you the opportunity to combine any other ingredients you like with it. Ingredients Feta cheese 1cups broken to...
Bourbourelia, Kefalonian traditional dish
Bourbourelia is a mixture of various cereals and legumes which are traditionally cooked in Kefalonia on the day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (November 21). This custom is related to the fact that the feast of the Apparitions of the Virgin takes place exactly...
Bakaliaropita, Kefalonians bacalao-pie
Another traditional dish from Kefalonia, the Bakaliaropita or bacalao-pie made by Voula Bayioti, Captains Table restaurant in Argostoli. Ingredients: For the dough… Four all-purpose 4cups Olive oil 1/2cups Salt 1tsp Water warm as much as it takes For the filling…...
Krasotigania (Apiranthos pork special dish with home-made red wine and rosemary)
One of many traditional dishes found in the most beautiful village of Apiranthos in Naxos island cooked by Marietta Galani Ingredients Olive oil about 1/2cup Boneless pork shoulder 1kilo cut in big bite size Onions 2 sliced Salt and pepper Fresh rosemary to taste...
Amygdalota (Wedding almond truffles with mastic gum)
A sweet delicacy made in the traditional village of Apiranthos, in Naxos island, offered on weddings and other happy occasions Ingredients Almonds white skinless White sugar 500grms (2 cups) Water 2cups Honey 100grms (about 1/2cups) Rosewater 1tbsp Mastc gum in powder...
Salatouri (Skate wing salad, Naxos way)
Another traditional dish from the wonderful island of Naxos, this time a salad made from Skate wing. This particular recipe was given to me by Taverna Spyros in Ag. Prokopi, Naxos. Ingredients Skate wing about 1kilo (with bones) Scallions 4 chopped whole with the...
Dolmadakia with vine leaves stuffed with meat and rice
Dolmadakia must be one of Greeces most popular snack or starter. Comes in many sizes, with meat or vegan, with egg sauce (avgolemono), plain or just yogurt, served warm or in room temperature, as a single dish or in a salad, even in sandwiches. You can have it in...
Tyropitaria
Tyropitaria is a quick snack loved by all and made with almost the same dough we make Thiples but this time we serve with cheese and honey. Ingredients: Eggs 6 large Ouzo 60ml-2oz (or brandy) High gluten flour (as much as it takes) it should take about 700gr (25oz) or...
Mosaiko Log
Since I can remember Mosaiko was one of my childhood favorite. Quick and easy to make, super delicious to eat!!! Ingredients: Unsalted butter 250grms (8,8oz) Condensed milk 400grms (14,1oz) Bitter cocoa powder 60grms (2,1oz) Cognac or Brandy 3tbsp Pti Ber biscuits or...
The Karamanlidika of Fanis
At The "Karamanlidika of Fanis' you can buy outstanding products and at the same time enjoy traditional delicacies. The flavor of karamanlides is an element of culture and traditions and along with documents and religion Karamanlides maintained intact for many...
100th Prize for Olive Oil Production
Family Business From Sparta Wins its 100th Prize for Olive Oil Production Sakellaropoulos Organic Farming, a Greek family business in Sparta, Laconia has become a legend in the world of olive oil production, managing to rack up an astonishing 100 awards for its...