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 …
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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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …