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′

easy:

Cream of Asparagus Soup

For this simple first dish, the time it takes to be done does not exceed twenty minutes. Besides, there is the relevant expression: "Faster than to cook asparagus". Yet, though fast, it's delicious. It escapes from our usual Kitchen Soups and is splendidly fragrant.
Each ingredient is distinguished by its flavor and taste. When the first spoon arrives in our mouth and the palate begins to detect the aromas, it will record the soft and fine taste of asparagus (favorite vegetable), the intensity of the roasted garlic, the unique aroma of wild fennel, the unparalleled flavor of Parmesan and the set ends up being an incredible «dance» of tasteful combination.
Surely it surprises us that this little white soup can have such an exciting flavor.
It is accompanied by a glass of rosé wine.
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work: 10′

time: 20′

very easy:

Yellow Split Pea with Caper

Fava beans are a legume and not so common in our daily meals. However, despite the strict austerity of its presence in our Kitchen Stories, it is considered to be one of the most delicious dishes of legumes that we honor most often.
Gentle, delicate flavor and velvety texture in cream form is eaten as an accompaniment to ouzo-wine but also as a main dish with olives, feta cheese, toasted slices of home bread and a glass of red wine.
Throughout Greece, we know as the famous products of the Greek motherland the delicious Prespes beans, Sifnos chickpeas, Amorgo fava beans, Skyros and the most famous of all of Santorini, where it is grown for hundreds of years. All legumes are an enormous nutritional value for a Mediterranean / Greek diet with many health benefits.
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work: 30′

time: 50′

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Yellow Split Pea with Caramelized Onions

Fava is delicious legume and tastiest are the fava Santorini. Combined with raw olive oil & raw, chopped onion or fried and caramelized onions with fresh tomatoes or tomatoes rain-fed Santorini. Then we give the title of "married!". Additionally we can enhance the flavor in vinegar with olives, capers, fennel, fennel & lemon.
Usually served as a summer ouzo meze and on your Lenten table.
Try it!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Greek Traditional Fish Soup

Fish boiled & Fish soup traditional, energizing and for many, very favorite soup with fresh fish.
To have a tasty soup what you need is nothing more than the good fresh fish. Not that it can not be done from frozen fish but definitely fresh is preferred. The dusky grouper, the white grouper, the scorpaena, the European hake, etc. are ideal. Also the smaller fish, those that live near rocks make the best fish soup. You choose any fish or fish combination you like and enjoy it.
It is one of the most delicious and healthy dishes in Greek Cuisine. The shrimp in the current proposal playing the guest star role is not a sine qua non. Fish soup can be made without them… The vegetables are for accompanying this dish. A light dish and if you choose the winter version is a dish of warmth and coziness.
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εργασία: 1h:30′

χρόνος: 2h:00′

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Frumenty Soup with Smoked Pork Shank

Warm spicy frumenty soup, cooked with onion, leek and fresh tomato and enhanced with smoked pork shank (syglino) and toasted croutons, is an ideal choice for the rainy and cold days in which our body asks food with carbohydrates and proteins, offering consolation, feeling wellness and homely warmth.
A traditional nourishing soup turns into an absolute comfort food to warm the body, rejoice and fill of the stomach.
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work: 15′

time: 45′

very easy:

Beef Vegetable Soup

Those who have reservations about the soups in general and in particular for the winter, hot consommé, and hearty, I would like to suggest this one. Do make and enjoy it without reservations. It's so tasty, without exaggeration, surely you will love it, and your loved ones or who, anyway, you are responsible to care for their diet …
We choose meat from good quality beef and then many different vegetables, each of which will contribute with its taste and composition to the entire dish. An important aspect in the whole process -though little time consuming- is to sauté all individual ingredients before boil. It gives a taste you will not forget.
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work: 40′

time: 1h:30′

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Pumpkin Soup

Hearty and delicious Pumpkin Soup, made from a large slice of a huge pumpkin, which was cut, and some pieces arrived in my Kitchen. A Pumpkin Soup was made, for the cold days and evenings of winter:

• When we need comforting food, with warm tones and textures.
• When we need a soup detoxifying, from the gustatory binge, and…
• When there are pumpkins in the grocery shop!

Then enjoy it with large, overflowing tablespoons that burn the palate and tongue and warm our insides.
An orange, velvety, and thick Pumpkin Soup, with intensity in taste and in the presence of crunching, bread chunks (croutons), crisp bacon, and cheddar flakes for extra flavor. All garnish makes a very rich flavor. Thyme is the perfect fragrance eliminating the pumpkin aftertaste.
It comes with a red dry wine for the apotheosis of simplicity, taste, and enjoyment.
Be assured that you will repeat very soon, pumpkins are undefeated…
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wokr: 20′

time: 35′

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French Onion Soup

French Onion soup (Soupe à l'oignon). An eminently French dish -dish of the poor- at times onions were plentiful and easy to obtain for the poor rural population. A dish quite popular since Roman times.
The modern version of this soup is made with caramelized onions, plenty of broth and toasted croutons with melted delicious gruyere cheese on them!
It is eaten hot, with cheese to melt into threads, and the toasted bread dipped in soup.

work: 30′

time: 1h:10′

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Chicken Soup with Frumenty

Tasty, simple soup with added trachana, sweet or sour, that enhancing the flavor and makes it very hearty, leaving a soothing effect on the stomach!
An easy and very economical dish, suitable for the winter's cold and rainy days.
The warm, crispy bread into the soup tantalise the taste and give us enjoyment.
Try it!

work: 00h:30′

time: 01h:00′

very easy: 1/5

Red Lentil Soup

Lentils with orange, intense color, and unmatched flavor, taster than the simple lentils we all know.
Lentils came in my kitchen, from Xanthi, covering many miles on their way.
At first glance I was thrilled by their color, but I did not know their taste. I gained first hand experience, of this little known product, by cooking them!
You can find them is many health stores. In other cities around the world they may be easier to find in local markets.
Worth the try.

work: 00h:10′

time: 00h:30′

easy: 2/5

Greek Bean Soup

Delicious beans with onion, celery, carrots and olive oil. All tied together, compose and take off with a delicious result, a dried bean soup!
The ingredients are simple and we can find them easily. May be the olive oil is in some places hard to find, but the rest are common everywhere, I hope.

εργασία: 30′

χρόνος: 2h:00′

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Lentil Soup

Lentils! Enjoy a traditional Greek dish for the cold days of the winter.
Lentils are among the first plants that the man (and woman:) began to systematically cultivate and one of the more important legumes in our diet.
There are several varieties with different size and color of seeds, such as blonde, green and brown.
The lentils are cultivated since ancient times (circa 2,000 BC) and were known in ancient Egypt. Jews, Greeks and Romans cultivated and consumed them.
It is a legume with great nutritional value, rich in iron, phosphorus, carbohydrates, protein and B vitamins.

work: 0:20'

time: 1h:30'

easy: 4/10