Greek Style Spaghetti with Meat Sauce

Back to basics: Greek Style Spaghetti with Meat Sauce!
In our Kitchens it was for years the dominant and almost the only dish of pasta with minced, made in another era by the grandmothers and mothers cooks of the house on demand young children & adults alike. It has nothing to do with the well-known sauce bolognese , with its many ingredients and long preparation, which arrived much later in our Kitchen along with some other famous Italian spaghetti or pasta. Another peculiarity of Greek Spaghetti is that it is served with pasta well cooked in contrast to al-dente but also with its few ingredients, which were in our poor homes.
The Spaghetti with Minced Meat of mom, with minimal ingredients and an incomparable taste! Minced meat seasoned with cinnamon & simmer to soften and mash nicely to include the spaghetti and flavor them. The grated mizithra or kefalotyri or grated parmesan, added on top, will take off its taste! This Greek dish has become a staple and a favorite in our home.
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work: 15′

time: 1h:30′

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Stuffed Zucchini, Middle Eastern Style

A favorite dish in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, whose aromas and taste reach our own Cuisine.
In this recipe, humble zucchini serve as a vase for a special filling of seasoned rice and a mixture of beef & pork - without excluding any other meat of our choice - with fresh tomatoes, onions & aromatic herbs, such as herbs.
See step-by-step analysis of my recipe for incredible and absolutely delicious results!
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work: 40′

time: 1h:30′

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Greek Pastitsio-Baked Greek Bucatini with Meat

When I started preparing it today, I remembered why I hadn't written this recipe before - though I had in the past posted a pastiche down like this made in individual portions - it's because everyone is making this dish, maybe slightly different, but it's a classic dish that everyone thinks is theirs the best way so it wouldn't be of much interest.
My own methodology will have some controversial moments, but I know my dish is particularly tasty to me at least and so I recommend it! Make this recipe if you want to see what it looks like and compare it with your own cooking method. It is also a suggestion for those who have never tried it, and although they have always wanted to know how this dish is made, now could be the perfect start to your test with so much step-by-step process!
The recipe is the inspiration of N. Tselemendes almost a century ago. It was and remains one of the most beloved recipes of Greek households. Made with layers of thick pasta, minced meat and Béchamel cream as a final layer.
It is not difficult but it is jagged and with the sink full of pots at the end…
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work: 2h:15′

time: 3h:00′

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Greek Cabbage Pie with Yogurt Sauce

Do we like Cabbage Rolls but we do not have time to wrap them one by one? We prepare quickly and easily a cabbage pie, which is just as delicious but easier and more impressive.
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work: 45′

time: 2h:15′

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Leek Pie with Country Style Phyllo Sheet

Favorite pies of Greek Cuisine, favorite and the ingredients, which are added each time between the phyllo -different dough phyllo- to create a rich, tasty, ingredients and aroma, pie. There are also excellent traditional pies, which are made without any dough phyllo.
The proposal here is a pie with crispy, rusty leaves in the middle, which give it a large but distinctive taste. Its predominant ingredient is leeks and pork mince. In a regional role, but equally important is cheese, eggs, sweet or sour thyme, carrot to lighten the composition, olive oil and onions, many onions.
A versatile pie in flavors and the amount of ingredients we prefer, without omitting the leek most to justify the title.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

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Meatloaf with Mixed Vegetables & Cheese

A beautiful, delicious and slightly different roll of mincemeat, filled with our favorite vegetables and cheeses. It is a very tasty dish & is very practical in cutting for a Sunday family meal, which will all enjoy it with pleasure.
Aromatic herbs, colorful vegetables, pepper spices and many different cheeses guarantee an excellent dish that emits taste, color and delicacy.
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work: 45′

time: 2h:00′

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Savoy Cabbage Rolls with Campbell's Tomato Soup

Savoy cabbage is a beautiful, winter, Chinese cabbage, the harder texture but very soft, sweet taste that makes all the difference in the routine of our known stuffed cabbage rolls. The leaves are so wide that are ideal to effortlessly wrap cabbage rolls.
We make a delicious mixture of minced meat, gently wrap the tender leaves of cabbage and place the thick rolls in a row in fireproof oven dish. Sprinkle with tomato from the famous Campbell's Tomato Soup and bake in the oven. Becomes festive first course to bring luck in the home, in the New Year meals, as the Chinese believe.
One of the most famous motifs of pop art is Campbell's canned tomato soup immortalized by the famous American artist Andy Warhol in countless versions, during the 1960s and 1970s. The first project in which Warhol used the Campbell's soup entitled Campbell's Soup Cans and created in the 1962.
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work: 45′

time: 1h:30′

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Burgers Stuffed with Eggs

Delicious, filling, daily plate of burgers. Shape spicy burgers, mixed with minced veal and pork and at the center of each patty close a boiled egg. Spices and dehydrated onion with concentrated the flavor of onion, added to the mixture of minced meat, provide great taste in burgers. Their accompanying such as carrots, potatoes, peppers make them even more delicious.
It is a variation on individual portions of the famous and beloved minced roll, stuffed with boiled eggs.
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work: 40′

time: 2h:00′

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Caramelized Onion-Bacon Beef Burgers

Fluffy juicy burger with homemade recipe, tasty, hearty and very easy to be made with fresh ingredients and a variety of herbs and spices.
The sautéed smoked bacon gives them extra spicy taste and the caramelized onions, cooked in beer, sweetness and soft texture. If we cook them on the BBQ we get top taste.
Easy to freeze and be ready for whenever we need them.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

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Stuffed Zucchini with Egg & Lemon Sauce (Avgolemono)

Irresistible, delicious and easily prepared. We purchase zucchini round, like balls (the classic too is a joy for this dish) to open, remove the pith and fill them with a delicious and aromatic minced meat. So simple and so fast.
The accompanying sauce, Avgolemono, this great Greek Sauce with the unique ability to thicken and give body to food together with the subtle, tangy flavor of lemon, is for most a necessary corollary of this dish.
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work: 45′

time: 1h:45′

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Stuffed Vine Leaves with Minced Meat & Tomato

Stuffed vine leaves with minced veal, a lot of onion, grated tomato, mint and white wine.
If for this dish your dining experience begins and ends in canned stuffed vine leaves, will surely feel aversion or dislike. But when you give a second chance, making the stuffed yourself with the following detailed step-by-step instructions, you will definitely revise.
It is an excellent dish, delicious and filling. The pleasure of the palate and our stomach. It can be combined with a velvety egg-lemon sauce or tzatziki.
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work: 2h:30′

time: 3h:00′

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Meatballs in Red Wine Sauce

Meatballs in Red Wine Sauce Meatballs favorite! Red wine sauce, beautiful aromas, divine taste, and various combinations. I think we need in today's introduction to confine to fewer descriptions and let you decide what description fits better and if you will make it and enjoy it!
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

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Chilli con Carne

Chili con Carne (Hot Peppers with meat) are among the most famous, typical dishes of Tex-Mex (Texan and Mexican) cuisine. There are infinite variations on the basic recipe of this dish, which has its roots in Mexican cuisine and was the dish of the poor Mexican population. For sure it contains meat, hot peppers and spices. The rest -red beans, tomatoes etc.-, probably added in the course of transition in every continent.
It is intensely spicy to very spicy and what you need for this season of the year and for lovers of very spicy flavors. In our house we have one of those lovers and this dish is his favorite. So the more spicy the better. You moderate a little bit the hot doses of ingredients and enjoy it completely plain or on boiled rice, yogurt, mashed or baked potatoes, sprinkled with grated cheddar cheese and tortilla chips or wrapped in tortillas with a little corn and lettuce leaves. Consumed with zest as it is!
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work: 45′

time: 12h:00′

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Bolognese Sauce-Stuffed Lumaconi

The Bolognese sauce is a ragout -in the Italian version- slow cooked, which is made with meat chunks or minced. The heavy cast-iron pan is ideal for this kind of food in slow cooking.
Known to us all as "spaghetti with meat" may have a more delicious flavor, a more imaginative presence and why not, more festive!
We choose to accompany the Bolognese sauce with any pasta we prefer, tagliatelle or spaghetti. The Kitchen Stories proposes shells Lumaconi, filled with this wonderful sauce and sprinkled with parmesan.
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work: 30′

time: 2h:00′

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Summer Meatballs with Peppers & Feta

Our beloved meatballs in a summer mood colorful and hearty. We make many meatballs, fry them and those that do not consume in a day, put them in the oven, the next day, with lots of onions, peppers, cherry tomatoes, feta, olives and capers.
Maximize their taste and enjoy them in the summer. More Greek that can be, this dish is the next stage of our… tomato salad.
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work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Eggplant & Meat Pie

Pies are a relatively easy, tasty, hearty and… and ultimately have only positive signs to adjectives and our palate.
One more pie therefore eggplant pie this time, with whole chunks of eggplant, fried and mixed with delicious minced beef, finished with cognac. The cream béchamel, is added to give the taste intensity and consistency.
The choice of adding the dry cottage cheese is to highlight the flavors of the cake with the saltiness and authenticity of a simple, traditional but delicious cheese. Taken together, wrapped in phyllo pastry and the final reason is the oven where the cake comes to complete the whole process.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:50′

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The recipe

Eggplant & Meat Pie

can be found in the book «Μεζέδες».

Meatballs with Ouzo

Hearty meatballs, plump and delicious. Crisp and crunchy outside and soft and fluffy inside.
Their ingredients is this proposal are fine, aromatic and favorites. Ouzo adds a touch of alcohol, what better to enjoy them as a snack or accompanied by various other appetizers or as a main dish with fried potatoes, tomato and a light yogurt sauce. The large glasses full of ice cold beer complete the enjoyment with cool presence.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Whiskey Burger

Juicy, spicy and drunk with whiskey super burger to deliciously accompany male population that will be "camping" in the living room or on our terrace with the first whistle of the referee for the start of Mundial 2014!
They will love them. Do not forget that the older children always remain children and junk food is their first choice!
Knead fluffy homemade burger buns and make a very spicy sauce full in whiskey. Packing them with crispy bacon and melted cheddar (no lettuce and the like, sinful). Sprinkle with lots of wavy chips of barbecue taste and put on the edge of each dish chili peppers Jalapeños pickle, to fire up the blood even more, to intensify ecstasy and passion and adrenaline flowing more abundant than beer.
Take care, do not forget them outside of the refrigerator, huh? Sacrilege…
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work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:30′

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Minced Meat and Cabbage Pie

Pie with minced meat, different with the addition of cabbage, sharp, oriental, aromatic spices and fresh vegetables. Each one of them contributes with its presence to a tasty result in a riot of flavors, colors and fragrances. Pie in rolls, with a particular technique, topped with sour milk and eggs to get golden.
Try it!

work: 50′

time: 1h:40′

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Rice Meatball in the Oven

Rice meatballs with the known, traditional flavor but with a different way of cooking the classic recipe, that most know, and gives them another texture and another flavor.
Minced meat, rice, aromatic herbs and lemon juice are the ingredients for delicious, baked, rice meatballs. The addition of lemon zest to the flour, with which we flour them is the magic material that will give them a special flavor and elevate their taste.
Proposal: do not skip, is more than a soup with rice meatballs, believe me!

work: 30′

time: 1h:20′

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