On our blog today we’ve got a recipe from the northern parts of Greece. A recipe that’s totally suitable for cold weather, a real comfort food! And so easy to make!
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Greek chickpea fritters
As we have mentioned before in our blog, Greeks adore eating fritters as appetizers. We make them with meat, with vegetables but also with legumes. The most popular ones made with legumes are chickpea fritters. Soft in the inside, crunchy on the outside and flavored with different herbs, they are so delicious that you just can’t stop eating them!
Greek leek pie
Pies are an essential feature in Greek cuisine. Every region has its own way of making them and a preference to certain ingredients. The most popular ones are those that combine vegetables with cheese- mainly feta cheese but other types of cheese are used as well.
Leek pie is a very nice pie, delicious with elegant flavors thanks to the sweetness the leek provides to the pie.
Greek zucchini fritters
Vegetable fritters are extremely popular as appetizers in Greek cuisine. We make them with different types of vegetables from tomatoes to zucchinis and eggplants and even cauliflower!
Zucchini fritters are perhaps the most popular ones. You’ll find many taverns that serve them as appetizers. In Greek they’re called “kolokithokeftédes”. A bit hard to pronounce but not that hard to make!
Rosemary olive oil bread.
As we have mentioned a few times on our facebook page, the Greeks are bread lovers. We have a really strong passion for bread, which is always present on a Greek table. Whatever the meal, being a simple salad, a pasta dish or some mezedes, there is always bread. And there is always sufficient amount of bread for everyone.
Papoutsakia
“Papoutsakia”, the name of the dish on today’s post, literally means “little shoes”. But it’s also a wonderful Greek dish from the Peloponese, in the south of the country, where eggplants are commonly used in the local cuisine. “Papoutsakia” is actually eggplants stuffed with minced meat sauce and topped with béchamel sauce. One could say that it is a variation of the famous moussaka , but “papoutsakia” are equally delicious and when you taste them you’ll end up relishing more than one!
Delicious dishes from the Greek islands.
The islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas are numerous. Each and every one of them is unique, and even those that belong to the same geographical complex pose characteristic differences. Due to the fact that the islands by nature are in some way isolated, they have developed their unique flora and fauna, leading to the differentiation of their cuisines.
