Rice Meatball Soup

A soup that we can enjoy with great pleasure and soothe, warm and satiate a stubborn stomach from the first spoon. A wonderful, warm, rich soup with rice meatball & some vegetables.
This soup, with the unique Greek egg-lemon sauce, is so delicious that it is superior to the other colored versions.
If your tastes and culinary moods coincide with ours, try it!
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work: 00h:30′

time: 1h:00′

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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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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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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′

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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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Christmas Chicken with Minced Meat Stuffing

A stuffing recipe for Christmas chicken or turkey with traditional stuffing of minced meat, not with livers, roasted pine nuts, black currants, sweet chestnuts and unique spices. An excellent stuffed chicken can be the main dish on the Christmas Table. It is recommended especially for those who do not prefer the turkey on size and taste.
Your kitchen will smell of Christmas aromas of spices, as it is baked in the oven. This roast stuffed chicken will indulge your palate!
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Happy Holidays,
Merry Christmas!

work: 1h:00′

time: 3h: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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Meatballs in Creamy Sauce with Tagliatelle

Delicious creamy mafaldines -curly tagliatelle- with even more delicious, juicy meatballs in an easy dish for lovers of pasta. I assure you that everyone will love it and even those who do not have special "appeal" to paste products.
The cream cheese gives its unique creamy texture envision to this dish and makes it juicy and velvety.
Did I convince you? Then try it!

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Cabbage Rolls

Cabbage Rolls, very tasty, with many spices, cooked in a pot on carrots and leeks. The difference, which characterizes this dish is that the meat is cut into very small cubes. The process is more complex but the result is much more delicious than if we used plain mince.
With the same stuffing we make and red/purple cabbage rolls, with red cabbage. They have a little sharper and peppery taste.
Try them!

work: 2h:30′

time: 3h:00′

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Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

Favorite Stuffed cabbage rolls for the people of Central and Northern Europe, Russia, the Balkan countries, Middle East, and many others.
From the Polish Golabki, bathed in melted lard or tomato sauce to our own cabbage, with fine, velvety Greek egg and lemon sauce, few people will resist the challenge.
Step-by-step instructions to facilitate all those who decide to make them, with their hands and enjoy them at their family table.
Delicious ingredients such as minced meat, rice, onions, herbs all wrapped in a thin sheet of cabbage and cooked in a pot in the oven, gives a unique dish.
The originality of the recipe is that with the thick cabbage on the basis of hull we put two pork chops, that will intensify the taste of all the dishes.
Try them!

work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:30′

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Stuffed Burgers

Burgers grilled on a hot cast iron plate, that gives them a great flavor.
Filled with delicious gruyere cheese and accompanied with thick, fluffy, and crunchy oven french fries!
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work: 45′

time: 01h:45′

medium: 3/5