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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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!
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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!
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work: 00:45′

time: 2h:15′

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Tomato Patties & Tyrokafteri

Ideal appetizer, excellent taste to combine on your table with Tyrokafteri (Spicy Feta Cheese Spread), that is as hot as we like. Accompany your appetite with beer or raki, without excluding a good red wine.
Ripe, delicious & bright red tomatoes are combined with the aromas of basil and mint and that's it. They don't need anything else to become a delicious appetizer except, perhaps, a homemade cheese sauce. Tomatoes ripe, tasty and bright red are joined with the aromas of basil and mint, that's all. They do not need anything else to make a scrumptious appetizer except, perhaps, by a homemade spicy cheese dip, with lovely soft feta of Kefalonia, with its velvety taste and texture and of course… french fries!
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work: 30′

time: 45′

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The recipe

Tomato Patties & Tyrokafteri

you will find it in the book Mezedes.

Pie in Puff Pastry Sheet

Among the many and delicious dishes that the Greek Diet includes, the various pies stand out and write their own chapter in the impressively rich culinary narrative of the Pie.
With simple raw ingredients, pies were for many housewives the daily treat, and which accompanied a people with a tradition in animal husbandry and agriculture, satisfying their nutritional and practical needs. The traditional recipes of our country have a fixed place in our kitchen.

The tradition of a delicious pie still exists today with the ease of finding raw ingredients as well as ready-made sheets for quick selection for many workers, mothers and housewives.

Today's pie wrapped in puff pastry is a quick pie with delicious, many and different ingredients that make it delicious and filling.
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work: 40′

time: 1h:40′

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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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Savory Pumpkin Pie

It was the last pumpkin we had outside in the cool of nature in a shady place. We made it into a pie and gave the neighbor a big piece too! The last winter pie for this year. The last yellow pumpkin for this year.
I share with you one of my favorite pies. Sweet and salty at the same time. But definitely a pie for food. It contains the traditional sour frumenty -trachana elsewhere- of Crete, the land of my ancestors and whose taste accompanies me since I was a child. The rest of the ingredients are crushed vermicelli, which becomes invisible after baking, Greek feta, but also eggs and milk and plenty of dried onion and of course olive oil, from our production Cretan olive oil.
Yours! 

work: 1h:30′

time: 3h: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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Zucchini Pie with Frumenty & Feta Cheese

This is the perfect savory pie you can make when you have overloaded your refrigerator shelves with zucchini from the garden or just got a few more from the flea market or grocery store. The key to this recipe is that you have to completely squeeze the grated zucchini to remove the excess water, so that it does not end up being made into a soup. The rest is a simple game of synthesis of ingredients in a good, very good traditional pie sheet, to highlight the taste of a unique zucchini pie with Greek Feta & Sour Frumenty/ Trachana in Greek …
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work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

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Linguine with Mussels & Fresh Vegetables

Cook the mussels in a large frying pan, with the tomatoes cut into small bites, the sweet red pepper in thin strips and all other vegetables chopped! Quench with white wine while your linguine are cooked in another pot. Combine the two and toss them with your favorite spices, a little grated Parmigiano-Reggiano & chopped rosemary. Now pretend you're on vacation on the Italian coast or on one of our Aegean islands and enjoy excellent flavors!
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work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:30′

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Chicken Fillet with Mushrooms

Boneless chicken leg fillets without skin in red sauce. They are delicious, accompanied by mushrooms, carrots, green peppers and black or green olives. They are flavored with white wine and spices, such as Star Anise, cinnamon, cloves and peppercorns. Its final taste is reminiscent of a stew!
They are easy to cook and you can combine them with noodles, Rice, "Fried" Potatoes or Sesame, but even without them it's a complete dish.
Try them!

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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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 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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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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Okra in Oil

Almost a Greek alphabet to the benefits from the undervalued okra, which take so long and so many years the remorse comments of the universe without complaint. Do not listen to the "malicious" who propagate that okra is "the shame of the vegetables" 😆🌿👌…
Just 350-400 calories -at most- have a portion of them, while breathing a hot pizza special you get 875! So do not listen to others' prejudices, cook this vegetable and enjoy it. We did not eat so much food as the taste buds of the palate dared to try and revise.
The process for their preparation, when okra is fresh, it is a little time-consuming, but this contributes to their delicacy and differentiates them from the frozen.
Easy, tasty and really healthy dish!
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work: 45′

time: 3h:15′

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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′

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Creamy Mushroom & Spinach Fettuccine with Caramelized Onions

A pasta dish generally leaves a few people unmoved at the sight. A creamy, highly aromatic, and wonderfully delicious, white spaghetti leaves absolutely no one unmoved…
This with fettuccine pasta has many different vegetables that make it very tasty. It has two kinds of mushrooms, portobello and white -meat substitutes- caramelized onions, balsamic cream, tender spinach, arugula and all combined delicious and harmonious in a sauce particularly creamy thanks to cream and grated parmesan cheese straight from her place of origin!
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work: 30′

time: 50′

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