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 from the Pellana ladies.
Ingredients
Tomatoes fresh 3
Olive oil
Sfela cheese (local hard salty cheese) replace with pecorino
Siglino (local pork brined meat) replace with smoked ham or pancetta or smoked pork sausages
Eggs 6
Salt and pepper
Oregano
Method
Peel and grate the tomatoes. Place them in a frying pan with little olive oil and cook until the water is evaporated and tomato is cooked to a thick sauce.
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Cut the cheese to pieces of your choice and fry them golden in olive oil. Keep on kitchen paper to absorb excess oil.
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Prepare your cold meat you have chosen if you don’t have siglino and cut it to bite pieces
Add the siglino or cold meat pieces to the pan
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Add the fried pieces of cheese in the cooked tomato.
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Whisk the eggs with a pinch of salt and pepper and pour over the tomato, cheese and siglino.
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Cook until eggs are cooked, sprinkle with oregano and serve
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This traditional recipe comes fron the Village Pellana, outside of Sparta, in Lakonia
watch the video here
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