- Tzatziki: Greek yogurt with finely chopped
cucumber, garlic and olive oil. Ideal to eat with
fresh Greek bread, fried potatoes or fried meatballs.
- Saganaki: Fried
cheese. Different sorts of cheese can be found in
saganaki. Excellent with a zest of lemon.
- Keftedakia: Fried meatballs of beef, garlic
and bread. Excellent dish.
- Spanakopitakia: Small spinach pies
with crushed feta cheese.
- Tiropitakia:
Small cheese pies, usually made of feta or kasseri cheese.
- Horta: Boiled wild greens with olive
oil, salt and lemon.
- Briam: Mix
of roast potatoes, eggplants, onions, garlic, tomato
sauce and olive oil.
- Dolmadakia:
Grape leaves filled with rice and onions and sometimes
minced beef.
- Kalamarakia: Small
pieces of fried squid with lemon juice.
- Htapodi: Small pieces of octopus served either
fried with lemon juice or boiled, with olive oil,
vinegar and oregano.
- Feta cheese:
The famous Greek cheese can also be eaten alone,
as a meze, with olive oil and oregano.
 SALADS |
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Of course, the most famous is the Greek salad, or else Horiatiki (Village Salad), but there are also many other types of salads and dip sauces.
- Horiatiki Salata: Also know as "Greek
salad", the horiatiki is a mix of fresh tomatoes,
olives, cucumber, onions, green pepper, feta cheese,
olive oil and oregano.
- Melitzanosalata: An eggplant puree
with finely chopped garlic and olive oil. It is
succulent with fresh bread.
- Taramosalata:
Crushed fish eggs.
 MAIN DISHES |
Greeks have a lot of excellent main dishes and meat is their favourite ingredient.
- Moussaka: This
famous Greek dish has a base made of potatoes topped
with eggplants onions, minced beef and bechamel creme.
- Pastitsio: This is another well-known
Greek dish reminding of the Italian Lasagnas. It
consists of spaggeti No 2 topped
with minced beef, onions, tomato sauce and bechamel sauce.
- Paidakia: Grilled lamb's ribs served
with lemon.
- Kokoretsi: This is one
of the favorite dishes of Greeks. They mostly eat
it during Easter. It consists of wrapped and roasted
entrails of lamb, served with lemon. |
| SOUPS |
Greek soups are succulent and Greeks usually have soups in winter.
- Kotossoupa: Chicken
soup usually with avgolemono (sauce made with eggs
and lemon).
- Psarossoupa: Fish soup
with parsley, potatoes and carrots.
- Fassolada:
White bean soup with parsley and, sometimes, tomato
sauce.
- Fakies: Lentil soup with
tomato sauce.
- Magiritsa: Easter
soup made of the inside of lamb, dill and the avgolemono
sauce (egg and lemon).
- Patsa: Tripe
soup, considered by Greeks as a very good remedy
to hangovers. |
| HERBS & SPICES |
Greece is famous for its unique herbs and spices which they use in every dish to add an extra taste and delight the senses. The excellent quality of Greek spices and herbs is due to the long sunshine periods, making the Greek flora particularly rich, producing an incredible variety of the best herbs and spices in the world.
Famous herbs of great quality and easy to find in Greece are the chamomile, the mountain tea, sage, basil, mint, parsley, tilio (lime leaves used as an infusion) and much more.
Supreme Greek spices are the sesame (white sesame also), the cumin, the machlepi and the valuable red saffron.
| WINES OF GREECE AND ALCOHOL BEVERAGES |
Greece is a big producer of wines and local alcohols.
- Tsipouro:
This really strong alcohol looks a bit like ouzo but with a stronger taste of anis. Greeks drink it with ice and sometimes add a bit of water. It is always accompanied with mezedes and good friends.
In different parts of Greece, such as Crete, some islands and the northern Greece, people make their own home made Tsipouro, also called Raki (depending of the region) which is really strong.
- Ouzo:
This is the most famous Greek alcohol beverage, the trade mark of the country. It is a strong alcohol, drinkable straight with ice or with a bit of water. It is ideal to drink with all kinds of mezedes. The best ouzo is made in Lesvos and the most famous trades are Ouzo Plomariou and Barbayanni.
- Mavrodafni: This sweet wine is made in Patras Peloponnese. It is really thick and dark (almost black) and can be compared to the Portuguese Porto. This strong wine is used for the Holy Communion in the Greek Orthodox Church.
- Retsina: The famous Retsina is a Greek white wine with a particular resin taste. This taste is due to the way of production of this wine: they put the grapes in new cask which have still the wood resin on, giving to the whine that special taste.
- Wines of Greece: There is a huge diversity
of Greek wines: red, white and rose, sweet or dry.
For a detailed gallery of Greek wines, go to
www.thegreekwine.com |
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