Greek Recipes

Greek and Cypriot recipes

Honey-Sesame Snacks – Pasteli

Ingredients: 200 grams of sesame seeds 450 grams of aromatic honey 2 tbsp of lemon juice 1 1/2 tbsp of unsalted melted butter 1 tbsp of orange blossom water (Optional) Method: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Line a shallow baking pan with parchment per and spread the sesame seeds on it and bake […]

Apple Pie – Milopita

Ingredients: 3 medium sized Granny Smith apples 1 1/2 cups of self-rising flour (or regular flour with 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder) 2 eggs (separate yolks from whites) 1 cup of white sugar 3/4 of a cup of butter 1⁄3 cup of milk 1/4 cup of brown sugar 1 tbsp grated lemon rind 1 […]

New Year’s Cake – Vasilopita

Notes: Vasilopita is a Greek Traditional New Year’s Day cake or bread and it is associated with Saint’s Basil’s Day which is on January 1st. According to the Greek Tradition Saint Basil is supposed to visit children and give presents every January 1st (Saint Basil’s Day). Unlike other Traditions where St Nicholas arrives either on […]

Greek Ek Mek Sweet – Ekmek Kataifi

Ingredients: z1/2 a packet kataifi Fyllo 200gr of pistachio nuts (unsalted and unroasted) roughly crumbled 1 litre of milk 1/2 a litre of whipping cream 100gr of unsalted butter 450gr of vanilla corn flour (if you can’t get vanilla corn flour, then use ordinary corn flour plus 1 vanilla sacket) 1/2 a tsp of ground […]