Like most of us, I’ve made countless fried potatoes (french fries) over the years, but every time I’ve eaten them in a Greek home, they’ve been crispy and delightful. Here’s the secret, whether you use a deep fryer or frying pan. Note: Greeks enjoy fried potatoes as a meze, side dish, and as a main dish […]

OCTOPUS YIOULBASI Ingredients: 1 medium octopus (about 21⁄2 pounds) 1⁄4 cup olive oil 3 garlic cloves, very thinly sliced 1⁄3 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley Freshly ground black pepper to taste Makes 4 to 8 meze servings Method: 1. Wash the octopus and pat dry. Rub the octopus with a little olive oil and hang on […]

PALAMITHA YIOULBASI Ingredients: 11⁄2 to 2 pounds bonito or other small tuna,boned 1⁄2 cup extra-virgin olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 4 to 5 garlic cloves, to taste, minced 1 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley 1⁄2 pound kefalotyri cheese or any hard yellow cheese, diced 2 large tomatoes, each cut into 8 […]

ORTYKIA STO PSOMI Ingredients: For the bread: 6 cups bread flour, or more if needed One envelope active dry yeast 21⁄2 cups warm water 1 scant tablespoon salt 2 to 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, as needed For the quail: 4 quail 1⁄2 cup extra-virgin olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste […]

Ingredients: 500g of flour 40g of yeast 200g of yogurt 6 tsp of olive oil 1 bunch mint 300g of Graviera Cheese 2 packs of Halloumi Cheese 1 tsp salt Method: For informational purposes, when mixing ingredients for dough, all the ingredients should be at room temperature. Halloumi Cheese is made out of Goat milk […]

Ingredients: For the Pastry: 1 kilo of hard flour 750 grams of soft flour 1 cup of sourdough starter 175 grams of vegetable shortening 4 cups of warm water 3/4 of a cup of corn oil 3/4 tsp of salt 1/4 tsp of mastic 1/4 tsp of mahleb kernels For the Filling: 1 kilo of […]

Ingredients: 1 kg of bread flour 12gr of yeast 1 medium onion, chopped 1/2 a cup of black olives with pits Fresh mint finely chopped or dry mint 1/2 a cup of olive oil 1 1/2 cup of lukewarm water Method: Place the flour in a large enough bowl, add yeast and mix well. Add […]

Kolokotes are a very much known and popular home made Pastry in Cyprus. People usually make them during the cold days of the winter. I believe they are worth trying, because they are very tasty, nutritious and best of all they are made with all natural ingredients. I don’t thing they are very well known […]

Ingredients: 4 kg plus 4 cups of soft flour (pastry flour) 6 cups of hard flour (bread flour) 6 tsp of salt 4 cups of vegetable shortening 4 cups of sugar 7 cups of warm water 1 level tsp of powder cinnamon 1 level tsp of powder cloves 4 level tsp of crushed anise 1 […]

History of Flaounes: Flaounes is a Cypriot Cheese Pastry which is connected directly to Greek Orthodox Easter. During the Easter feast days, in every Cypriot Greek Orthodox house you happen to visit, from the biggest town to the smallest village, you will come across to Flaounes. Every Cypriot house wife makes more than the family […]