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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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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Eggplants Stuffed with Potato Purée & Mozzarella

Roasted eggplants, stuffed with mashed potatoes and mozzarella. Alternatively Greek stuffed 'little shoes'. Delicious, easy and filling.
Eggplant is a tender perennial plant of the family Strychnoid (Solanaceae) and is cultivated for its homonymous fruit. Eggplant dominates in Mediterranean dishes. For us the moussaka and the shoes, the Italian parmesan aubergine and the Turkish imam baildi are among the best known. It is also roasted, fried, stuffed, salad and in vinegar (pickled).
Eggplant has low nutritional value and characteristic taste. It contains a greenish substance, strychnine, which can cause stomach upset when fruits are eaten unripe or very ripe. That's why attention is needed.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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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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Grilled Peppers Stuffed with Cheese & Feta

An easy recipe for tasty peppers with cheeses and herbs. A simple, elegant and delicious appetizer or main dish.
Peppers due to shape & taste is a favorite vegetable with many applications in our cooking but very easy to use when it comes to filling them. They are filled with many delicious ingredients according to our taste and taste…
In Kitchen Stories there are plenty of suggestions to fill delicious and just any peppers you want. Large Florina type, colorful large or small, hot or sweet, classic bell-shaped, etc. depending on season and latitude & longitude you are in.
The present dish has a dual choice. This appetizer but also the main dish.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:10′

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Vegetarian Burgers

Vegetarian Burgers in combination with the almost essential cheese and egg protein to give these alternative burgers the necessary dietary dynamics for a relatively dietetic dish of «different burgers without a lot of remorse»…
Portobello mushrooms, broccoli, corn, breadcrumbs are some of the key ingredients. They are flavored with the British origin of Worcestershire sauce, with coriander seeds, flaxseed, onion and garlic. They are made delicious, easy to digest and all this is a deliberate alternative to replacing minced meat.
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work: 30′

time: 50′

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Dauphinoise Potatoes

Potatoes Dauphinoise believed to come from the Dauphiné region of France.
A rich, classic and delightful example of French Cuisine to turn a simple potato dish into something more exciting and luxurious for extra festive banquets. This classic potato dish with the grained surface with a rich, creamy interior is always one of our favorite dishes, which accompanies our Christmas Dinner and is ideally matched with red meat and poultry.

Happy Holidays,
Merry Christmas!

work: 30′

time: 1h:45′

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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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Baked Eggplant with Tomatoes & Feta

Fresh sweet aubergines straight from the vegetable garden, combined with grated cheese to melt on the palate and delicious feta cheese with fresh tomato and spicy sausages to give us a delicious fried for evening, our summer ouzo with our friends.
Although between us, with so many ingredients becomes easily main dish and consumed pleasantly.
One tip only: Fry the eggplants in too little oil and for very little. We do not want to absorb oil to spoil the freshness of this dish and to taste it.
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εργασία: 30′

χρόνος: 1h:00′

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Vine Leaves Maintenance 2-DIY

In an earlier post we saw a dry way of Vine Leaves Maintenance. Today Kitchen Stories suggests another way to boil the leaves and then freeze them.
The season of fresh leaves is in May and June, depending on which area we are talking about. Find and cut your own fresh spring vine leaves, the first ones that Greek vineyards make or buy ready-made cuts from your neighborhood and prepare them to get into your cupboards so you can use them at any time. And do not forget the best leaves are gathered when they are still tender only by the climates of the Sultanina variety or Debina variety.
The suggested method is simple and very easy. Packaged this way, they will keep perfectly in your freezer. Yours!

work: 45′

time: 45′

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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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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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Artichokes with Carrots

Classic recipe for this dish. Artichokes fresh, spring, with carrots, potatoes and lemon sauce. If you are a fan of fresh artichoke, I suggest you make this dish!
Older cooks from us, certainly they know it and cook it excellently. But there are newer, which would like to try to make it. It's a bit troublesome with regard to cleaning the vegetables and the artichoke, but it is a tasty and healthy food. The vegetables, sources of vitamins, minerals and fiber, are cooked easily and quickly and still remain juicy and delicious.
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work: 2h:00′

time: 2h:30′

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Cheesy Baked Eggplant

Eggplant slices dip into breadcrumbs and baked in the oven, with delicious homemade tomato sauce and many cheeses. In individual ramekins, which is very practical and beautiful on the table when served in each separately. A vegetarian and hearty main dish.
Prepared in only an hour, thanks to some shortcuts. The eggplant slices, dipped in egg and breadcrumbs, then baked instead of fried and placed in layers with tomato sauce, mozzarella and gruyere.
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work: 25′

time: 1h:00′

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One Pot Stuffed Vegetables

Greek summer is combined with lots of fresh aromatic vegetables as a main dish, salad or appetizer at our table, but also filled in various ways. It is the time when we find them abundant and in their best time! But it is also inconvenient to turn on our home oven at high temperatures. That's why today I propose to make stuffed vegetables in the pot. Like they make and make by housewifes due to missing oven or for faster and more economic process. They are done in half time from the oven stuffed vegetables.
A variety of favorite vegetables, stuffed with rice and the crumb inside the casserole flavored with onions, mint and parsley. It is our One-Pot Meal. Everything in one!
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work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:10′

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One Pot Chicken

A meal, a pan, TWO dishes in a pan!
In the logic of the One Pot, all in one, prepare this special dish with chicken drumsticks onto Gratin Potatoes and all together in the oven to bake.
The chicken goes over the chopped potatoes and during baking all juices and tasty ingredients flowing onto gratinated potatoes, create incredible flavor. So we have a double and triple tastier dish. A delicious fried chicken and beautiful honeyed, juicy and creamy Gratin potatoes.
Most of the chicken fat has been removed during frying and looks like a rotisserie chicken, seasoned with aromatic spices.
This way of cooking chicken and potato yields maximum flavor we could demand from a combination like this.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:20′

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Stuffed Vines Leaves with Pine Nuts & Currants

Today's stuffed vine leaves -dolmades gialantzi- (only rice without meat) have different ingredients than others, we have proposed here occasionally. They form different wrapping, they are like little ladies fingers, thin, oblong, delicate, with long grain rice. Pine nuts, raisins and cinnamon gives its Constantinople origins and give them tons of sweet aftertaste.
The step by step analysis of the preparatory process and will help those who want to try to make for the first time.
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work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:00′

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