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Traditional Vasilopita with mahlep and mastic
Serves/Yields: 2 rounded baking pans of 25 - 30 cm diameter
Time: 3 hours
Difficulty: Medium
Season: Winter
Greek: Vasilopita
This recipe is provided by a friend of Greek-Recipe.com, Nikos Lymberopoulos. He enjoys cooking as much as we do and every year he follows this recipe to prepare the traditional New Year’s Eve cake (aka Vasilopita). This one has the scent of Tsoureki (Easter bread) because it has Mahlep.
Sweet Almond triangles
Serves/Yields: 35 - 37 pieces
Season: Winter
Greek: Trigona amigdalota
Nice sweet for the Christmas table!
New Year’s Eve cake (2)
Time: 1,5 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Greek: Vassilopita
Recipe is from aunt Julie’s recipe book
Christmas Eve Broccoli Soup
Serves/Yields: 6 persons
Difficulty: Medium
Season: Autumn/Winter
Greek: Soupa broccolo
A tasty soup, a nice solution for your Christmas eve menu. Source: Menu magazine, November 2000
Melomakarona
Serves/Yields: approx. 80 pieces
Difficulty: High
Season: Winter
Greek: Melonakarona tis Sias
Author’s note: These cakes are traditionally served at Christmas. Unlike other recipes for melomakarona, these are soft and not dipped into syrup. Syrup is poured over them.
Greek Christmas Recipes – Greek Christmas Menu
Christmas is the most important feast of Christianity after Easter. Throughout the centuries Christmas also has been linked closely to traditional Greek cooking. All sweet shops decorate their windows with mounds of Kourabiedes (Holiday Butter Cookies) and Melomakarona (New […]
Sugared Almonds
Difficulty: Medium
Season: All seasons
Greek: Amigdalota
Traditional recipe from Sikaminia and Molivos, the beautiful villages of Lesvos island. Recipe is taken on the Christmas bazaar of Molyvos (2013)
Melomakarona
Serves/Yields: 48 servings
Season: Winter
Greek: Melomakarona
Author’s note: These cakes are traditionally served at Christmas.
This recipe comes from my neighbor, Andonia. I have a distinct
memory of her beating the oil and sugar into the flour until it
dissolved using her middle finger and forefinger as a beater –
though a spoon will do.
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