Category: Food

Taramasalata – the creamy fish roe dip

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Sarakosti (The Great Lent is a Christian Orthodox tradition. It’s a 50 day period of fasting, during which people do not eat all meat & animal products(eggs, dairy) except seafood (however fish isn’t allowed). This is actually a traditional Greek version of a vegetarian diet, that’s also followed before Christmas, before the Dormition of the Mother of God in August and every Wednesday & Friday. Taramasalata (taramosalata) is one of the most popular dips that Greeks eat during that period.  Read more...

Christopsomo – The Greek Christmas bread

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Christopsomo (Χριστόψωμο), Christ’s bread is a very old Orthodox tradition. In most Greek Orthodox homes, the bread is made on the 24th of December with high quality ingredients and a lot of care. It is usually round in form with decorations on top. In the old times, people would fast until the morning church service on Christmas day and would eat this bread as their dinner just with olives and red wine. Read more...

Greek pies | Recipes | Bakeries in Athens

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There is an endless list of traditional Greek pies (πίτες). They are called “pites” in Greek but they are different to Arabic pita breads. Most of them are made of phyllo dough and a filling of basic, pure and fresh ingredients. They are also prepared in different shapes such as triangles, squares, rolls or sticks. Epirus‘ s (Northwestern part of Greece) are probably the most popular ones. But every region in Greece has a different traditional pie type to offer. In this post we are writing about the most popular ones, links with the recipes if you wish to make them at home and we suggest places where you can have the best ones of each in Athens.

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Bougatsa Recipe

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  • Bougatsa (μπουγάτσα) is a Greek plyllo pastrie filled with custard cream. It is a Greeks favorite snack, breakfast, or even dessert, perfect for any time of the day. Although this seems like a difficult sweet to make it is actually an easy one. It takes about 30 minutes to prepare and 20 minutes to cook. Here is our favorite recipe with detailed instructions.

Ingredients:

  • 1egg, room temperature
  • 1egg yolk, room temperature
  • 59.14ml sugar
  • 354.88ml whole milk
  • 59.14ml semolina (farina)
  • 118.29ml butter, cut into bits
  • 9.85ml fresh lemon juice
  • 1lemon, zest of
  • 2.46ml vanilla extract
  • 8-10phyllo pastry, thawed, covered with dampened towel
  • 118.29ml butter, melted
  • icing sugar
  • cinnamon
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