Greek & Cypriot traditional or renowned recipes with a twist
Category: Greek & Cypriot
Flaounas | A Cypriot Easter Traditional Sweet & Savoury Cheese-filled Pastry for the Whole Family!
Tradition, tradition, tradition, is a word you will come across many times in this blog since tradition is part of our Greek culture, life and mentality. Flaounas in not an exception, on the contrary is one of …
KOKORETSI; A Sunday Easter Tradition For Every Greek Household!
The Orthodox Easter is the biggest celebration in the Greek Orthodox religion. It is celebrated by millions of Christian Orthodox around the world, with Greeks, Cypriots and Russians to hold the majority and is usually a week …
Hummus, a Middle-Eastern classic dip, turned into a main dish or side dish, served with pitta bread!
I am sure you all heard about the so famous hummus so far and read a lot about the various recipes that are trending in hundreds of food blogs daily, and probably, most of you have already …
Flat green Beans with artichokes cooked in fresh Tomato sauce, onion & garlic
Greeks and Cypriots developed hundreds of ‘yiachni” recipes, with all kind of vegetables, meat and fish and they still evolving original recipes from their ancestors. Below are some of the best vegetable, meat & fish suggestions for …
Slow-cooked chickpeas ragout, with spinach & carrots, served with tahini & pickled beetroots
Oh… I have so many stories to share with you and not enough days before Greek Orthodox Easter to do so. So let’s start with Lent and Green Monday | Greeks and Cypriots are fasting for 40 days …
Halloumi scones with dry mint & virgin olive oil | Autumn’s first recipe
September and October are those months in the calendar that I like the least, in my country. It’s not summer, is not winter and there is no sign of autumn anywhere around. And the weather is the worst …
Imam Bayildi Special | A Mediterranean Summer Recipe | Ιμάμ Μπαϊλντί, μια καθαρά καλοκαιρινή απόλαυση!
I have probably said this a lot of times by now, but in my country, Summer is a long story. So long, that starts from around April and ends at November! For some of you this might …
Authentic Greek Salad with fresh oregano & Sapfo® virgin greek olive oil | Χωριάτικη σαλάτα με φρέσκα ρίγανι και ελαιόλαδο Sapfo®
I love my job. I really do. And I feel so blessed, that unlike other people I am doing what I love, in an everyday basis and without any obligations. My work is full of new challenges daily, …
BBC GOOD FOOD | Fresh Talents Award 2017 by Pink Lady | Finalist Photos by Athena Konstantinou
‘ I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart the Pink Lady Food photography Competition 2017 and the BBC Good Food Fresh Talent Awards for giving me this opportunity and being among the best …
Magiritsa | The Greek Easter Traditional Soup
Mageiritsa it’s a very easy-to-make soup, but you must have some cooking skills and patience, especially with the lamb offal (since I feel a bit weird when I wash them and prepare them) and I promise you that …
Crust topping Greek Cheese pie with Feta & Yogurt
I know is been a while to post or better, I haven’t been posting as often as I used to and I also know that the photos and the text is less in this post and yes, …
Soupa Louvana me tiganisi | A gluten free & vegan Cypriot traditional soup!
I know that this is the second soup post in a row but in Cyprus the weather is changing rapidly and spring is around the corner, so I wanted to catch up with a few more winter recipes. …
Trahanas Soup | A Greek & Cypriot super food soup with haloumi & sausage
I live in a country where it resides among three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa and co-exist amongst many countries where are influenced by the Mediterranean cuisine, the middle eastern cuisine, Turkish and the Greek kitchen and is …
KOLOKOTES | Traditional Cypriot Pumpkin pies | Grandma’s recipe
Kolokotes, is a traditional Cypriot recipe of Pumpkin pies. This recipe belongs to my grandma and I could have never, ever anticipated that being around her in my childhood, I would eventually “inherited” a legacy so rich, as …
Black-eyed beans salad with Couscous & smoke-cured herring| Recipe coming soon at my cookbook
Yeah I know… One more post without a recipe and you have every right to be bit mad about me… But c’mmon guys, the food styling is amazing! And is such a shame not to share it with …
Spanakopita | Greek spinach pie with fetta cheese & dill
Spanakopita is one of the top five most famous Greek dishes worldwide, among the Greek salad, mousakka, souvlaki and tzatziki. Spanakopita seems complex but really is derived from two simple words, that’s spinach and pitta, which means pie …
Greek Gyro in pita bread | Marinated pork loin with tzatziki sauce in Greek bread
“Pitogyro is a complex word, from pitta – that’s Greek bread and gyros – the pork or chicken that is inside the pitta.” “Pitogyro” is a word synonymous to Greeks and although you may think it is not …
A Greek salad without a twist | A salad that goes with everything
Red ripe tomatoes, fresh mountain oregano leafs, pure Greek olive oil and the queen of taste, feta cheese are the bold flavors and super fresh ingredients that will rock you to the sky with the simplest salad. Greeks …
Gemista | A Cyprus Traditional Plate of Stuffed Vegetables
Greeks do it better but the recipe that follows is a traditionally original Cypriot recipe called “koupepia” and “gemista”, meaning meat and rice stuffed in vine or cabbage leaves and/or vegetables like tomatoes, potatoes and red peppers. Koupepia …
Flaounes | A Cypriot traditional Sweet & Savoury treat for Easter
Flaounes – The Cypriot Easter Tradition “PASKAZW” … Is a typical Cypriot word arising from Easter Sunday’s food that means we are very happy, from the fact that we have eaten all the treats linked to Easter.” Tradition, tradition, …
Leg of Lamb with herbs | A roasting pleasure for Easter Sunday
“The most popular Easter symbol throughout the world is the lamb. The reference to lamb in Christianity goes back to the book of Genesis, when Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son” Lamb is the meat synonymous to …
Fried courgette with eggs | And Greek Salad
Kolokithakia me Auga – A tasty Cypriot recipe. I know that the last few posts I have thrown in many Greek words but I always compensate and translate them instantly to English and this is what I am …
Cyprus Sweets | Kattimerka
Kattimerka, boy what a word! Simpler? These are crepes traditionally made by Cypriots; olive oil (of course) and sugar, served either plain or with honey and cinnamon. I remember my grandmother making this unique sweet for my father …
Greek Green Monday | A Traditional & National Greek day
Green Monday in Greece and Cyprus, and more generally in the Orthodox world, is a very significant day which marks the commencement of “Sarakosti,” meaning the beginning of the fasting and detox period of both the spirit and …
