Crete
Cretan Kalitsounia
Difficulty: High
Greek: Kaltsounia Me Kanella
There are various versions of Kaltsounia. Cretan Kaltsounia are also shaped in stars like in the picture. Our effort to shape them like stars was unfortunate as you may notice. the difference from the proposal in the recipe is that instead of making a half moon you roll the circled dough up, down and left , right of the filling and then squize the dough in order to shape a star.
Stamnagathi salad
Serves/Yields: 4 - 6 persons
Time: 15 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Season: All seasons
Greek: Salata stamnagathi
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.
Rabbit stew in lemon sauce
Serves/Yields: 2 persons
Time: 1,5 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Season: All seasons
Greek: Kouneli lemonato
Recipe can be easily doubled. We purchased one rabbit, weighted two kilos, and decided to cook half of it with lemon sauce and the other half with tomato sauce!
Cretan rusk with tomato oregano and cheese Demo
Serves/Yields: 1 piece
Time: 10 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Season: All seasons
Greek: Kritikos Dakos
Cretan Boureki
Serves/Yields: 8 persons
Difficulty: Medium
Season: Autumn
Greek: Kritiko boureki
To prepare the filo sheets you can follow the recipe we provide for traditional home made filo. If you follow this recipe you might yield dough for more than 2 filo sheets. If you do not adjust the portions to you needs and yield more dough just preserve the remaining dough in deep freeze for future use. Boureki can be either closed on top with filo or open like in the recipe.
Almond sweets with tangerine
Difficulty: Easy
Season: All seasons
Greek: Amigdalota me mandarini
Very easy to prepare! An easy recipe for a tasty sweet. It is also a traditional sweet in the region of Chania in Crete.
Cretan rusk with tomato, oregano and cheese
Serves/Yields: 1 piece
Time: 15 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Season: All seasons
Greek: Kritikos Dakos
Dakos is a kind of rusk, made with barley flour. This appetizer is a speciality of Crete, served also as an appetizer in many Athenian restaurants. This recipe yields one item.
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