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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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Light calorie fish soup

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.

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Vrasto

Vrasto

Serves/Yields: 4 - 6 persons

Time: 2 hours

Difficulty: Easy

Season: Winter

Greek: Vrasto

Vrasto is a soup with meat (beef) and vegetables like potatoes, carrots and celery.

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Pasta with greek style sauce

Greek Style Spaghetti

Serves/Yields: 4 persons

Time: 1 hour

Difficulty: Easy

Season: Spring/Summer

Greek: Elliniki makaronada

Spaghetti is Italian and dominant in all cuisines. Olives, olive oil, peppers, feta, mitzythra are typical Greek cooking ingredients.

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Bekri meze

Pork appetizer

Serves/Yields: 4 persons

Difficulty: Medium

Season: Spring

Greek: Bekri meze

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Yuvarlak

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.

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Meat rissoles from Constantinopolis

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.

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Ray fish baked with tomato and garlic

Ray fish plaki

Serves/Yields: 4 persons

Time: 1 hour

Difficulty: Easy

Season: Winter

Greek: Salachi (platia) plaki

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