Veg. & Pulses

Cabbage Rice

Cabbage Rice

Serves/Yields: 4 persons

Time: 45 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Season: Winter/Spring

Greek: Lahanorizo

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Potatoes with garlic onion and milk

Boiled potatoes with milk, onion and garlic

Serves/Yields: 4 persons

Time: 30 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Season: Winter

Greek: Patates vrastes me kremmudi, skordo kai gala

This is a dish up of some remaining food ingredients, leftovers in the fridge.

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Mashed Chick peas from Arkadia

Mashed chick peas from Arkadia

Time: 1 - 1,5 hour

Difficulty: Easy

Season: All seasons

Greek: Revithia skordalia

This dip is something between skordalia (garlic sauce) and houmous. maybe 8 garlic cloves are too many. For a mild taste add max. 2 cloves.

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Giant beans stifado

Giant Beans casserole with baby onions

Serves/Yields: 8 persons

Time: 2 - 3 hours

Difficulty: Medium

Season: Winter

Greek: Gigantes stifado

We used giant beans from North Greece and more specific from Prespes lake. This lenten dish was prepared for a Epiphany day, which is on the 6th of January according to the Orthodox Calendar. It serves 8 persons as a main dish

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giant black beans salad

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).

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Chick peas with eggplants

Baked chick peas with eggplants

Serves/Yields: 4 - 6 persons

Time: 2 - 2,5 hours

Difficulty: Medium

Season: Autumn/Winter

Greek: Revithia me melitzanes

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How to trim artichokes

How to trim artichokes

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Posted: November 17, 2013

Before cooking artichokes, you’ve got to clean them. Their sharp outer leaves and the prickly choke inside needs to be removed. the following pictures demonstrate the trimming process. I am sure that most people prefer frozen ones that are sold in the food stored, packed and already cleaned. But is the taste the same?

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Fried artichokes with garlic sauce

Fried artichoke pieces with garlic sauce

Serves/Yields: 4 persons

Time: 30 minutes

Difficulty: Medium

Season: All seasons

Greek: Tiganites agginares me slatsa skordou

Artichokes are not favorable to children. If they taste this appetizer they might change their mind. This recipe serves 4 as an appetizer.

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