Aubergines with Feta

The days at the beginning of November, in the city we live in, are this year very beautiful, mild, sunny, the vegetables at their best and all-weather or greenhouse aubergines are everywhere. Did you want a super easy and super tasty oily food, with the presence of eggplant predominantly? Follow the steps of the recipe and make this dish that we are sure you will enjoy!
I do not de-bitter Aubergines for many years. I think this process is not necessary and taste is not improving. The truth is that over time the varieties have changed, de-bitter would be much more important than it is now. Salt helps aubergines to eliminate their metallic taste, as well as part of their juices and nothing beyond that. It is more important to choose from the market aubergines without many spores, which are tasteless and hard and change their taste.
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work: 40′

time: 1h:10′

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Fresh Green Beans

Fresh green beans have their honor at our Greek Summer Table. Along with Gemista (Filled) is the dish that we make and serve in our family more often.
It is traditional, delicious and favorite food. It accepts interventions by adding other vegetables along with the green beans, creating more textures and flavors that take off.
We choose whatever variety of green beans we prefer as long as they are freshly cut, tender and crisp.
Of course this dish is strictly accompanied by Greek Feta.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Peppers Stuffed with Minced Meat

A delicious Stuffed Recipe over the established traditional, classic recipe made by our mothers and grandmothers, with whatever vegetables they had available or their bowl and including all the big vegetables that could empty their crumbs and filled with rice only, without minced meat, but always delicious and aromatic. From eggplants, potatoes, pumpkins and naturally mature, reddish, vigorous tomatoes. Everything was used perfectly according to the wishes of everyone in the family.
The current proposal is with peppers only without excluding the remaining vegetables, if you like. The filling with minced meat and aromatic herbs also give a very tasty dish. They are made easy and fast since preparing to fill the peppers is not difficult or time-consuming.
We prepare them early in the morning to smell the kitchen flavors and aromas and until lunch time will have been cooked and will be quite lukewarm to enjoy them with feta cheese.
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work: 30′

time: 2h:00′

easy:

Artichokes with Carrots

Classic recipe for this dish. Artichokes fresh, spring, with carrots, potatoes and lemon sauce. If you are a fan of fresh artichoke, I suggest you make this dish!
Older cooks from us, certainly they know it and cook it excellently. But there are newer, which would like to try to make it. It's a bit troublesome with regard to cleaning the vegetables and the artichoke, but it is a tasty and healthy food. The vegetables, sources of vitamins, minerals and fiber, are cooked easily and quickly and still remain juicy and delicious.
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work: 2h:00′

time: 2h:30′

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One Pot Stuffed Vegetables

Greek summer is combined with lots of fresh aromatic vegetables as a main dish, salad or appetizer at our table, but also filled in various ways. It is the time when we find them abundant and in their best time! But it is also inconvenient to turn on our home oven at high temperatures. That's why today I propose to make stuffed vegetables in the pot. Like they make and make by housewifes due to missing oven or for faster and more economic process. They are done in half time from the oven stuffed vegetables.
A variety of favorite vegetables, stuffed with rice and the crumb inside the casserole flavored with onions, mint and parsley. It is our One-Pot Meal. Everything in one!
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work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:10′

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Oven Baked Chicken & Vegetables

We know briam, eat it and enjoy it as a Lenten dish, with lots of different vegetables, all of which combined together give great tasty results. By adding meat -here chicken- the enjoyment gets off.
It is delicious, hearty and often very functional and flexible when vegetables get piled in the refrigerator and should be consumed immediately.
Various other vegetables like eggplants, peppers, potatoes and onions and tomatoes, all chopped up comprise the tasty base to touch the shredded chicken, cooked in the oven and bring out the flavors but also their colors.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

very easy:

Snails with Swiss Chard

Cretan snails with chard, aromatic herbs, such as fennel, Mediterranean hartwort, chervils (French parsley) and fresh tomatoes in a delicious casserole dish. Sure for traditional cuisine such a dish is worth testing by lovers of snails.
A particular food consumed since ancient times.
Try it!

work: 2h:00′

time: 2h:30′

medium:

Tomato & Eggplant Sauce Pasta

The eggplant is a wonderful vegetable with a sweet flavor and a lot of possibilities and different ways of cooking pleasure!
Today I will make a delicious sauce with them and some tomatoes from our garden to accompany a hearty pasta dish-Spaghetti Alla Norma.
Cook over low heat for a long time without losing its texture and structure. The cooking method is incrementally counted in this dish's final taste and aesthetics.
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work: 10′

time: 30′

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Vegetables in the Oven with Bloody Mary Mix

Briam is one of the most popular dishes of Greek/ Mediterranean cuisine and one of the most delicious when vegetables are in season.
The richness and variety of vegetables is such that it is in our own palate the choice of what we like more or wath are simply accumulated in our refrigerator!
My tasty version is by adding the contents of a bottle of tomato juice cocktail "Bloody Mary Mix", which gives a spicy, peppery tats.
Try it!

work: 30′

time: 2h:30′

easy:

Chicken with Okra in Clay Pot

Chicken with okra, a delicious dish, that when cooked in a clay pot in the oven has an insurmountable taste.
Simple ingredients: tomato, onion and olive oil. The chicken combines perfectly with the vegetables, and is delicious and juicy.
Try it!

work: 1h:00′

time: 3h:00′

medium:

Oven Baked Mackerel with Vegetables

Fish! A unique food for the body and very tasty at the same time.
Mackerel is a fish that is abundant in summer in Greece. This dish is easy to make in the oven with many different vegetables. In very little time we have fresh food served at our table, accompanied with a frosty glass of retsina .
Enjoy!

work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

easy:

Baked Vegetables-Briam

Classic favorite Greek briam in the oven, whose basic idea is to use all summer vegetables chopped, mixed and baked.
Use can use a pot instead the oven, and it always is a tasty and delicious meal option.
At the table is perfectly accompanied with Greek feta and fresh hot bread.
It is also one of the most efficient way to use all these vegetables, which accumulate in our fridge in the summer.
Try it!

work: 30′

time: 2h:15′

easy:

Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce and Kalamata Olives

Spaghetti with a lot of tomato sauce, mint and kalamata olives.
Simple, fast, tasty and filling for those who love, cook, and enjoy pasta with their friends, served with a glass of red wine or beer.
Delicious spaghetti, which is very tasty even without cheese if you want a lenten dish.
Try it!

work: 15′

time: 35′

easy: 2/5

Low Carb Baked Vegetables with Feta

Delicious summer vegetables in the oven, sprinkled with Greek feta and fragrant oregano.
A dish with Mediterranean flavors, light, hearty and Low Carb. Ideal for everyone, and especialy for those on a Low Carb or Ketogenic diet.
Baking without added water, makes this food delicious.
Try!

work: 15′

time: 45′

very easy: 1/5

Greek Giant Baked Beans

Baked giant beans.
Considered one of the tastiest dishes of traditional Greek cuisine, a dish that Greeks and visitors foreigners love. Simple yet so delicious and useful for our diet.
Ingredients such as the Greek giant beans, tomato, onion, and olive oil, well tempered, for a delicious result!

work: 00h:20′

time: 12h:20′

easy: 2/5

Beef Braised with Beans

Beef braised with beans cooked in red sauce.
Heirloom beans look like small, colorful beads. They have a light pink to red or purple color with red spots on them. It's a delicious variety of beans, which we find in the market in the summer.

work: 00h:45′

time: 01h:30′

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Baked Stuffed Vegetables

The favourite summer food, for most of us, is baked stuffed vegetables. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and zucchini, filled with rice and herbs. Plain, simple, without meat, with a concentrated flavor of all the vegetables and aromatic herbs used in the filling!
For those who are fasting, for the summer fasting period, or for vegetarians this is a perfect choice.
Hearty, vegetarian and delicious!
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work: 01h:30'

time: 03h:00'

medium: 3/5

Leeks and Rice

A delicious dish with the sweetness of leeks, balancing perfectly with the accompanying chewy rice. Smooth and pleasant to a sensitive (and/or) hungry stomach and most importantly, very fast to make for those who do not want to spend much time in the kitchen or are always busy…
Enjoy it with piquant olives and maybe with a little feta cheese.

work: 00h:45'

time: 00h:30'

medium: 2/5

Stuffed Vine Leaves

Vine leaves stuffed with rice, herbs and vegetables.
A local Mytilene recipe that adds zucchini and lettuce.
Combine this with the refreshing yogurt sauce, and the strong flavor of spearmint flavor.
Make them now, which is the season of fresh leaves and enjoy it as main dish or as the ultimate appetizer.
Try an excellent proposal by a professional cook for many years, in the large urban houses of old Mytilene.

work: 02h:00'

time: 02h:45'

difficult: 4/5

Pasta Peperonata

Peppers of assorted colours with spices that we put over a plate of pasta. The simplest ingredients give us an elegant dish.

work: 00h:30'

time: 00h:45'

easy: 2/5