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Baleze sweet

Difficulty: Easy

Greek: Balezes

Recipe that is cooked in Mitilini – Lesvos for the lent of the 15th of August
Recipe by: Moutzouri Maria – Mitilini.

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Almond sweets from Lesvos

Difficulty: Medium

Season: All seasons

Greek: Amigdalota yemata

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Rice milk sweet

Time: 30 - 45 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Season: All seasons

Greek: Rizogalo

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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.

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Semolina and Almond Cake

Serves/Yields: 8 persons

Season: All seasons

Greek: Halvas

The traditional golden formula for halva is counting 1, 2, 3, 4. What this means is 1 cup olive oil, 2 cups coarse semolina, 3 cups sugar and 4 of water. Nowadays, people reduce the amount of sugar from 3 to 2 cups and also instead of olive oil they may use sunflower seed oil.

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