Sweet & Sour Chicken with Basmati Rice

This Sweet and Sour Chicken can become the favorite recipe for those who love Asian Cuisine, but also special flavor combinations.
Two incompatible ingredients, chicken and pineapple, are combined with the sweet and sour sauce and give a wonderful tasty result. The fine, long-grained & special rice has been loved worldwide. When you taste it, you feel the wonderful aroma of flowers and a slight aftertaste of nuts in your mouth.

work: 00h:45′

time: 1h:30′

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Instant Pot Lemon Garlic Chicken

Today we are cooking delicious Lemon Chicken, braised with rosé wine (the same that will accompany our meal) in the Instant Pot. "All in one"!
The food is cooked in the juices of the accompanying vegetables, small carrots, potatoes, onion, garlic and basically without stirring. This way they come out of the cooker intact & presentable without disintegrating to be served on our table, so that we can enjoy a delicious and economical dish.
The Chicken is cooked perfectly and the potatoes are soft and delicious.

Yours!

work: 00h:30′

time: 1h:00′

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Veal Fillet with Vegetables in One Pot

Juicy, tender, delicious and irresistible Veal Fillet "all in one"!
In recipes, like this one, with the general title «One Pan Recipe» (Pasta, Chicken etc.), the ingredients are put into the pot at the same time and cooked all together.
The delicious vegetables absorb all the flavor of the meat and give a special dish. This dish can be made with pork tenderloin fillets but also with a piece of veal. We make it often, especially in the winter months and enjoy it with great gusto. Its slightly concentrated sauce is unsurpassed thanks to the meat but also because of the vegetables that accompany it.
Δικό σας!

work: 00h:45′

time: 1h:30′

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Lamb with Stamnagathi (spiny chicory) & Egg Lemon Sauce

A traditional dish of Cretan Cuisine and particularly of Chania, where its main ingredient grows wild in nature, and which is now cultivated, Stamnagathi (spiny chicory)!
A simple and delicious combination of vegetables and meat. It is the healthiest version of consuming meat (Arnaki Fricassee).
Stamnagathi is one of the few vegetables that is equally enjoyable to eat raw, boiled or cooked.
It is best known from the coastal and mountainous areas of Crete where it grows wild, although in recent years it has been cultivated extensively in several areas of Chania.
We also find it wild in Central Greece, the Peloponnese and the Cyclades, even in Malta!

work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:30′

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Cheese Pie with Sparkling Water

For those who don't have time to roll out a sheet of dough or don't know how, then ready-made phyllo crust is a good choice and we find it ready, fresh or frozen in the refrigerators of supermarkets.
I suggest you save this delicious pie recipe, which you can make with the filling you want and thus enjoy an easy and tasty pie and with cheeses of your absolute choice. The ingredient that makes it special and very fluffy with a crispy crust on its surface and with a wonderful taste is a can of Carbonated Water. A drink made from natural mineral water with natural lemon and lime flavors, extremely digestive and refreshing.
Try it at the first opportunity.
☯ If we want, we can prepare it the night before and put it in the oven the next morning. This way we will have a hot, fresh, delicious snack for a Sunday Breakfast.
Yours!

work: 0h:45′

time: 1h:30′

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Pies with Ricotta, Mozzarella & Gruyere Cheese

As has been repeatedly written here, in several recipes, savory and sweet, Kourou Dough -yogurt dough- is so pliable, soft & velvety, and which we love to make for its ease of handling.
The pies are filled with any filling we like. Here their cheese filling was, in addition to fresh Anthotyros (like Ricotta), straight from its source of production and from the first to start using fresh milk, Tyromalama (like Mozzarella) and Gruyere Cheese. The 3 most beloved cheeses of Crete were combined and made into pies.
Yours!

work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:00′

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Greek Christmas Filled Cookies

Cookies/Finikia/Melomakarona, a recipe from the East full of aromas and memories of lost homelands! Stuffed, traditional, Lenten and syrupy cookies.
The syruping is done in a saucepan and while the syrup is kept warm on a very low heat.
We prepare Finikia, which are consumed during the Lenten days before Christmas but also as a sweet delicacy for Christmas and New Year's Day along with the other Christmas desserts of the Twelve Days, such as Melomakarona, Kourabiedes, hills of fried honeyed Diples fragrant and fluffy Vasilopites! And even Isli, Christmas Bread, Kouloures, New Year's Loukoumades, Pancakes and other local sweets, festive, symbolic and ritual, that are prepared in every corner of Greece.
Yours!

Merry Christmas 2024! 🎄
Happy Holidays!

work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:30′

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Vegetable Soup

Warm Vegetable Soup, a detox soup with Frumenty (Trahanas), which will make it even tastier and give it a velvety texture!
You can replace your evening meal with this hearty soup because it is rich in nutrients and low in calories.
Make it and enjoy it!
Yours

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Osso Buco Veal Stew

Το Osso Buco is the ideal piece of Veal Shank for a well-cooked Stew but also for the perfect Beef Soup. In fact, I recommend sautéing the Osso Buco in olive oil, so that it takes on color and flavor from each side, before it is cooked and accompanied along the way by selected vegetables and aromatic spices. Thus, an innocent Greek Stew can be deliciously hellish with its multi-layered, hidden deliciousness!
Some prefer to accompany this dish with Pappardelle, others with Oven-Fried Potatoes, Barley, Risotto, Polenta. This time we enjoyed it with a super extra Mashed Potatoes!
Yours!

work: 00:45′

time: 2h:15′

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Spinach & Feta Rolls

Flour and water!
No yeast, no leavening agents. Simple and incredibly delicious & quick Spinach Cheesecake rolls, plain Cheesecake or both at the same time!
Let's bake delicious pie in the shape of a roll, where the ratio of filling and foil is evenly distributed for more flavor, more crispy effect and for all hours.
The ingredients of this pie are excellent and the proportions perfectly adjusted for a delicious pie or rather 2 pies in one.
Yours!

work: 1h:30′

time: 3h:00′

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