Ingredients: 1¼ kilo fresh green Walnuts 1¼ kilo sugar 3 glasses of water 3 sachets of vanilla 1 tsp lemon juice Few blanched almonds (optional) Method: Use the tenderest ones you can find, the older they are the harder they tend to be. They are best picked when they just come out. Wash the walnuts […]

Boiled/Stewed Veggie Sides Stewed Green Beans and Zucchini Lahano Katsarolas: Stewed Cabbage with Mint Hortarika sto Fourno: Oven-Stewed Mixed Vegetables Horta me Kolokythakia: Greens with Baby Zucchini Arakas me Anitho: Dilled Peas with Peppers Arakas me Aginares: Dilled Peas with Artichoke Hearts Creamed Mixed Greens with Smoked Bacon & Yogurt Broccoli with Latholemono (Oil and […]

KOUNELI SKORDALIA Ingredients: 1 rabbit, about 21⁄2 pounds, cut into serving pieces Red wine vinegar Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 cup tomato paste diluted with  1/2 cup water 1 cinnamon stick 1/2 teaspoon whole cloves For the garlic sauce: Three 1-inch-thick slices stale rustic bread,crusts removed 1⁄2 […]

Chicken Smothered with Onions and Feta  One-Pot Chicken Simmered with Artichokes and Served with Tomato-Egg-Lemon Sauce Stuffed Chicken in a Pot  Quails in Bread  Quail Preserved in Olive Oil  Kotopoulo Stifatho (Stifado): Chicken and Onion Stew Chicken Stew with Cinnamon – Chicken Kapama Kotopoulo me Yiaourti: Baked Chicken with Yogurt Kotopoulo me Bamies: Chicken & […]

Thaktila is a strictly Cypriot dessert that whoever tried it went back for more. Thaktila recipe has being in every Cypriot house preserved for generations and past on from mother to daughter. You can have it in your list of favorite desserts for making it for your friends and family. Dough ingredients: 3 cups of […]

Cake ingredients: 1/2 a cup of corn oil 1/2 a cup of rose water 1/4 cup of peeled split almonds 1/2 a tsp of baking powder 1/2 a tsp of vanilla powder 2 cups of semolina 1 cup of sugar 1 cup of yogurt Syrup ingredients: 1 cup of water 1 cup of sugar 1 […]

Ingredients for the pastry: 6 cups of hard flour 1 cup of soft flour 1 1/2 cup of water or as much as needed 3/4 cup of melted vegetable shortening 1/2 a tsp of salt Ingredients for syrup: 4 cups of sugar 2 cups of water 1 cinnamon stick 2-3 cloves 4 tsp of orange […]

Ingredients: 10 cups of mousto (Grape Juice) 10 tbsp of whole wheat flour 4-5 leaves of kiouli (arbaroriza) (Pelargonium) 1 branch of basil 1/5 tsp of mastic crushed powder 2 tbsp of rose water Roughly crushed almonds or walnuts Method: Wash the basil and kiouli (Pelargonium) leaves well under running water. In three cups of […]

Ingredients: 1 cup of fine semolina 1 cup of course semolina 2 cups of sugar 4 cups of water 1/2 tsp of rosewater 1 cup of oil Powder cinnamon Roasted half peeled almonds, Pistagios or pine nuts (Optional) Method: Heat up the oil in a sauce pan large enough to hold all ingredients. Add both […]

Christmas Recipes Christ or Christmas Bread – Christopsomo Christmas Bread – Christopsomo from Peloponniso Brandy Sugar Biscuits – Kourabiethes Syrup-Drenched Nut and Spice Cookies with Olive Oil Shortbread Cookies from Levithi Lenten Sugared Shortbread Cookies with Almonds Sugared Cookies with Almonds & Cinnamon Sugared Shortbread Cookies with Walnuts Christmas Pudding – Xristougenniatiki Poutinga Christmas Sesame […]