Regional Specialties
Giant black beans salad from Prespes
Serves/Yields: 4 persons
Time: 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Season: Winter
Greek: Salata me mayrous gigantes Prespwn
With this recipe we try to demonstrate how to make a black beans salad that we tried in Prespes district in North Greece. The nice tavern that we tasted this salad was in village Oksia – Mikrolimni (Οξιά – Μικρολίμνη).
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.
Beef slices with vegetables and Vinsanto wine from Santorini
Serves/Yields: 6 persons
Time: 1,5 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Season: Winter
Greek: Filetakia moshariou me lahanika kai vinsanto
Courtesy of Leda Dizelou.
Talatouri
Serves/Yields: 4 persons
Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Season: All seasons
Greek: Talatouri
Yuvarlak with ouzo
Serves/Yields: 4 persons
Time: 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Season: Autumn/Winter
Greek: Yiouvarlakia
Yuvarlak means round in Turkish. Yiouvarlakia are a kind of meatballs with sauce. The are found in Greek as well as in Turkish cuisines. In this recipe we added some ouzo to give some extra flavour in the meatballs.
Meat rissoles from Constantinopolis
Serves/Yields: 3 - 4 persons
Time: 45 mins - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Season: Winter
Greek: Keftedes apo tin Poli
The lemon zest in the recipe makes the rissoles more tasty.
Trahana soup from Agra Lesbos
Serves/Yields: 4 persons
Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Season: Winter
Greek: Trahanas apo tin Agra tis Lesvou
This is a fast and easy recipe soup, suitable for a cold winter dinner.
Ouzo
Author: admin
Posted: December 12, 2013
One of the largest producers of ouzo today is Varvayiannis (Βαρβαγιάννης), located in the town of Plomari in the southeast portion of the island, while in the same town Pitsiladi (Πιτσιλαδή), a variety of high-quality ouzo, is also distilled. More about ouzo can be found in (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouzo)
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