Main Courses Recipes
Sausage and pepper dishes are found all over the world. Spetsofai is the Greek version, a regional specialty from Pelion and Volos in Central Greece. You can use store-bought Florina peppers in brine for this dish. They are available in good supermarkets and Greek shops around the country.
Adapted from my book, The Country Cooking of Greece (Chronicle, 2012). This is a really special recipe, so elegant but also easy to prepare. If you can’t find authentic Naxos graviera, you can use a good pecorino.
East meets West in this spicy Anatolian-flavored chick-pea stew.
This is probably the best known snail dish in Crete and a meze par excellence for either wine or tsikouthia (fire water). It is also the only recipe that does not call for blanching the snails before cooking them. There are two stories regarding the provenance of the name: according to some Cretan cooks, it […]
Pastitsio is the ultimate Greek comfort food. You can prepare it over several days and you can freeze it once it is baked. Thicken your meat sauce with Santorini tomato paste and use real Greek regional olive oil to make this even tastier! You can find both and lots of other artisinal Greek ingredients my […]
This Greek recipe is a great vegan or vegetarian main course, originally from the northern Greek province of Thrace, where the food is a little spicier than it is elsewhere in Greece. You can also serve this Greek rice recipe as a side dish for grilled meat, chicken, and game. It’s great with duck and […]
Try this easy Greek pasta salad. It makes a great last-minute dinner choice. It’s tangy thanks to the salami, Greek cheeses, olives, and oregano.
Greek-style tuna melt includes Greek sheep’s milk cheeses and a little bit of taramosalata, the famous Greek fish roe dip.
Greek cooking is filled with easy chicken recipes. Try this one with Greek olives. You can use green olives or even Kalamata olives.
Stuffed tomatoes and peppers are one of the great seasonal treats of a Greek summer: filling, robust, and suitable for vegans, vegetarians, carnivores and others! You can also serve them either hot, cold, or at room temperature.