Dough for Bread & Pizza

If the homemade buns, flavored with roasted cumin and turmeric will turn into garlic-bread and will accompany aromatic roasted sweet potatoes tell you something, follow the steps in the recipe below.
Any dough left over from today's recipe, put it in polybag & freezer bags to make delicious, easy-to-make pizzas with delicate crust and simple ingredients, and especially homemade ones, at our fingertips!
The secret to this dough is its maturation time in the refrigerator for many hours. Even when we take it out to room temperature after many hours to cook it continues to swell…
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work: 30′

time: 48h:00′

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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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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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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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Chicken Thighs in the Oven

Chicken thighs baked with potatoes, what else… simple, tasty and definitely a food that many like and we all have a favorite recipe for this… but this proposal is a little secret that differentiates it from the conventional version and is delicious resulting in a juicy and browned at the same time food. Easily can be made your own secret and so to establish the manner of preparation. Follow the detailed steps of the recipe and the secret will be revealed to you.
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work: 20′

time: 2h:00′

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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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Fish Soufflé & Spinach Sauté

A simple fish fillet boneless, camouflaged in a wonderful soufflé puffed with eggs and cheese. Accompanying the dish is a warm salad of sauteed spinach. A complete and healthy meal with strong and great flavors, pure taste. Time to see the fish otherwise.
We sit at the table and wait with a fork in hand and a lot of impatience. Do not forget, eaten hot!
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work: 45′

time: 1h:30′

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Baked Zucchini Carrot Fritters

Savoury muffins healthy and fluffy with grated zucchini and carrot. A savory Gruyere or Parmesan, grated in the mixture will offer their delicious taste and wonderful chewy texture. Fill ramekins and bake in the oven. We can also fry them, but in this way become less fat, delicious and light. Easily transportable, we take them to work or school and can become a simple and frugal meal with a green salad.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:35′

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Kayanas

Kayanas is a delicious Greek traditional dish in a sophisticated version of the omelet with cheese and tomato. Grate some feta cheese over the top for the sake of simplicity… A dish that will fill of us and we will prepare in a few minutes.
In summer with fresh, ripe and bright red tomatoes are the best time to enjoy it. The ingredients needed for this omelet dish are minimal. Tomatoes, fresh eggs, grated cheese and a little dill.
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work: 10′

time: 20′

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Quesadillas Mushrooms

The Mexican Quesadilla is an easy appetizer and main course. With ready made tortillas wheat or corn you can create many different combinations that will always be pleasantly tasty treat for our palate.
Replacing the classic chicken with mushrooms -for more vegetarian version- our own production, we made and we tested these spicy quesadillas that the "Kitchen Stories" suggest today.
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work: 30′

time: 45′

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Savory Carrot Rings

An easy snack, healthy, fasting and fast. It is ideal for all times, it is nice, it is crispy without being tough. You can carry it comfortably and goes everywhere.
You can make it sticks or rings and accompany your coffee or drink. And, of course, is tastier made by our hands, with minimal effort, from what you'd find in the ready.
Carrots, oil, flour and turmeric, well kneaded, and this is it!
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work: 10′

time: 1h:00′

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Turmeric - Curcuma

Turmeric is one of the strongest therapeutics of nature. The active ingredient is curcumin and is used for over 2500 years in India where probably first used as a dye.
Often used to paint with the bright yellow color, foods such as drinks, ice, yoghurts, cakes, orange juice, biscuits etc. It is also a key component of curry.
The medicinal properties of this spice revealed gradually through the ages. It was long known for its anti-inflammatory properties. Recent research has shown that turmeric is a natural miracle that proves beneficial for the prevention of many different diseases from cancer to Alzheimer's disease.
In Medieval Europe it became known as the "Indian saffron", as it was widely used as an alternative to the very expensive spice, saffron.

Homemade Fish Sticks & Tartar Sauce

Fish sticks crunchy and delicious, dipped in a wonderful and tasty tartar sauce. The process may be a little time-consuming, but its taste is very special. Their great convenience is that baked in the oven and are extremely delicious without the process of frying.
Eaten pleasantly from the young and the old.
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work: 45′

time: 1h:10′

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Fish Fillet Pan-Fried with Turmeric

Delicious, easy, simple, white fish fillet, sprinkled with a good dose of turmeric and fried in hot oil. Simple, clear flavors and very tasty. Accompanied by a turmeric garlic dip, which I recommend you try.
A fried fish fillet can offer you delicious and nutritionally much more than you originally thought.

The medicinal properties of turmeric have them thoroughly analyzed in a previous Article. Recommend to rediscover. You do not miss to put in your food turmeric, consume it in strong volumes and combine it with black pepper. In this manner raises its effectiveness up to 1000 times for the humans.
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work: 30′

time: 30′

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Potato Salad with Aromatic Spices

Potato salad hearty and fragrant.
A simple boiled potato salad can be given flavor by adding aromatic spices & herbs, and give a hearty dish on its own or to accompany a seafood dish. In our table it combined with the Grilled Octopus in Parchment Paper.
The mustard with whole grains is much more palatable than the other common ones. Spices, each alone is very fragrant and combined tantalise the taste of the dish into which will be added. Finally a little bit of spring onion and fresh parsley add color and flavor to all.
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work: 15′

time: 25′

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Turmeric Garlic Dip

It's tradition in Greece at March 25 and October 28 to consume as a nation a delicious meal of Greek cuisine. This is the salted cod and of course the necessary accompaniment, the garlic sauce.
Today reversing the usual order of rotation of posts to the blog, which require a dessert I propose Garlic with Turmeric. The turmeric gives the garlic a nice and bright yellow color. Taste is great, a healthy choice and velvety texture. If your taste habits contains the garlic sauce then make it with the way I propose.
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work: 10′

time: 20′

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Chicken and Vegetables in Slow Cooker

Chicken thighs with peppers and balsamic cream, slow cooking in an easy and delicious version. A light dish healthy and delicious. The slow cooking in a covered Slow Cooker, where all the steam from cooking are retained in the pot gives it extra flavor.
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work: 15′

time: 6h:15′

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Sweet Potato Oven Fries with Avocado Dip

The sweet potato is one of the most nutritious foods on the planet, full of nutrients, including vitamin C, antioxidants, vitamin A, beta-carotene, and many others. They are also low in fat and has anti-inflammatory properties.
Sweet potatoes are not a common taste in our table, but it is delicious and cooked in various ways. Baked in the oven, sprinkled with herbs and spices, served with a spicy avocado dip are irresistible and sold out.
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work: 15′

time: 35′

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Wild Saffron Bagels

Yellow Bagels from the island of Astypalaia, Greece. Ιs an Aegean island with 1,334 inhabitants. These homemade Bagels are made with saffron, yogurt, honey and condiments, fluffy and rusky. With these ingredients we make a gentle oily dough and form it into perfectly round bagels or small biscuits. They turn golden and delicious. Eaten pleasantly, accompanying a variety of cheeses and as snacks at all hours.
Try them!

work: 30′

time: 3h:00′

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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.
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work: 30′

time: 2h:30′

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