Fish
Shi drum fish plaki
Serves/Yields: 4 persons
Time: 1,5 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Season: All seasons
Greek: Mylokopi plaki
Plaki can be done with swordfish fillets as well. Shi drum is less salty than swordfish and has a mild taste.
Shi drum fish with lemon and garlic sauce
Serves/Yields: 4 persons
Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Season: Winter
Greek: Mylokopi me skordo kai lemoni
Mylokopi is a tasty fish with a moderate price in the Greek fish market that can be cooked in various ways, plaki, in the grill, baked or stew.
Light calorie fish soup
Serves/Yields: 4 - 6 persons
Time: 45 mins - 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Season: Winter
Greek: Psarosoupa me liges thermides
A light and healthy soup with very few calories and nice taste.
Fried Snails from Crete
Serves/Yields: 4 - 6 persons
Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Medium
Greek: Hohlioi boubouristoi
Fried snails is a famous traditional Cretan appetizer. It is known in Crete as “Hohlioi boubouristoi” (Χοχλιοί μπουμπουριστοι), which means snails with their head downward.
Smoked Herring Dip
Serves/Yields: 6 -8 persons
Time: 15 - 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Season: All seasons
Greek: Dip kapnistis reggas
Absolutely delicious and easy to make dip. Spicy and salty enough to open appetite.
Ray fish plaki
Serves/Yields: 4 persons
Time: 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Season: Winter
Greek: Salachi (platia) plaki
Baked sardines with potatoes in lemon and garlic sauce
Serves/Yields: 4 persons
Time: 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Season: All seasons
Greek: Psites sardeles me lemonates patates
The process is much more simplified if you ask the fishmonger to clean the sardines for you. In such a case the preparation time is reduced to 10 minutes! Gavros (another greek small fish) can be used as well instead of sardines.
Fried sole
Serves/Yields: 4 persons
Time: 1 - 1,5 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Season: All seasons
Greek: Tiganites soles
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