Greek Recipes

HOME COOKING   STEP BY STEP: This is a favourite winter dish and one that combines the flavours of braised pork, celery, and the beloved Avgolemono (egg-lemon) sauce. Pork with celery in egg-lemon sauce. An "explosion of flavours" in your mouth! A classic Cretan favourite very popular dish   in Crete and Greece , especially during the winter months, typically served around the Christmas holidays.   Traditionally we use very young celery root, with stalks and leaves celery which is a small parsley-like herb. Providing cooking vacations and hands on cooking classes in Crete last 15 years and having guests both Vegetarians and Omnivorous I have worked this beautiful dish to both options! I cooked pork separately and celery separately and Vegetarians  can enjoy the meat free option and for the meat eaters I just “pantrepsa” (marry) as we say in Crete mixed / combined  meat and celery and the result is the pork with celery in...

HOME COOKING   STEP BY STEP: Bergamonto Glyko koutaliou. Bergamot spoon sweet Bergamonto, Bergamot, a kind of citrus fruit Bergamot is a citrus which is orange and looks like a lemon. Bergamot is about the size of an orange but its shape is between an orange and a big lemon and its colour looks more like an orange except Crete that it’s more like a big thick lemon. Bergamots can be found in Crete , Greece , and other Mediterranean areas. Carefully selected fresh bergamots are cooked with the sole addition of sugar, water and lemon juice .     Need: 2  kg Bergamot orange 2 kg s 2 springs of “amberosa” (aromatic plant) called rose geranium or if you cannot find this plant vanilla Juice from 1 lemon Directions : Wash the fruit and slightly grate them to get rid of the bitter layer of the peel. With a knife cut through the skin of bergamots in 2 pieces and using a spoon take off the flesh fruit. In this recipe we use only t...

HOME COOKING   STEP BY STEP: Grape Spoon Sweet, called Stafyli Glyko Crete is known for the grape spoon sweets and the raisins! Spoon sweets, are one of the Mediterranean’s healthiest sweets - as have no fat - served the traditional way, offered to guests served by the teaspoon in a small   porcelain   or   crystal dish with cold water as a gesture of hospitality ! Made with simple, natural ingredients that transform them into something entirely new, exciting, and delicious. The fruit remain firm and sit in a nice pool of syrup thick enough to coat a spoon. They are also an excellent match, Greek yogurt, The following recipe for grape spoon sweet is a specialty of Crete ... But whether or not you’ve been to Crete , you can appreciate the rich taste of grape spoon sweets by making them for yourself at your kitchen. NEEDED: 1000g grapes (sultana kind) 1000g sugar 1 cup water (enough to cover grapes and sugar) 2 springs of...

We Cretans call them  tiganites  which is from the ancient Greek  taginites ( ταγηνίτης ) and they have been a popular breakfast food in  Greece  since at least the 6 th  century B.C.  HOME COOKING   STEP BY STEP: What we need: 1 1/2 cups flour (1 cup = 250 g) 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, A little water: (as much as needed aproximately 1 cup) or soda water replacing the  baking powder and the water (I prefer to use soda water) The way we make them make it to a mush. Cook it in olive oil Serve it with sugar and cinnamon  or honey  or greap must syrup (greaps molassa)