Main Courses Recipes
This simple, if dramatic recipe for whole baked grouper with leeks, will surely impress your friends while providing a really easy way to make a great centerpiece for a meal with company. Greek recipes for whole baked fish abound, often with a regional twist. I like to use grouper, sfirida in Greek, for this recipe, […]
Chicken with prunes, or Poyo con Prunes as it’s called in Ladino, the language of the Sephardic Jews of Thessaloniki, is one of the most delicious traditional Sephardic recipes. Dried fruits and meat are a common combination in Sephardic and Northern Greek cooking. I paired this chicken recipe with an Agiorghitiko red wine from Nemea.
In the Foods that Unite Us episode of My Greek Table, Season 4, Grek-Mex Chicken Fajitas is a favorite recipe mostly because the marriage of Greek and Mexican cuisines is becoming all the more popular in Athens. The two culinary traditions, despite being on opposite sides of the globe, complement each other beautifully. This recipe […]
In My Greek Table, Season 4, the Foods that Unite Us episode includes this delicious hybrid recipe for Soba Noodles with Tahini and Shrimp. There is a burgeoning Japanese-Greek culinary scene in Athens, and it’s exciting to see and taste. Pairing this with Greek wine proved to be fun and delicious, too! I chose a […]
Eggplant with meatballs in tomato sauce is a luscious, easy recipe that I learned from my friend Hella Matalon, a prominent member of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki. If you can’t find the Florina red pepper, a long, sweet fleshy pepper, you can use any sweet fresh red pepper for this dish.
Walnuts inform much of the Sephardic cooking of Thessaloniki. This meatball with walnut sauce recipe called Keftes de Nogada is surprisingly simple yet a very delicious and satisfying way to serve one of the world’s great comfort foods. It is a classic of Thessaloniki’s Sephardic community.
Slow, clay-baked lamb, long a tradition in the cuisine of Epirus, is one of the best ways to ensure a delicious, succulent end result and a lamb dish that will bring you back for more. The presentation, with the dish secured closed with a rope of dough you’ve got to crack open before serving, is […]
This My Greek Table recipe for meatloaf is no doubt a world above anything you’ve ever experienced as meatloaf. Meatloaf is, almost by definition, one of the most “banal” dishes in the world, something you either love or hate. But when done well, it was and still is one of the great bougy recipes of […]
The name of this dish, which translates as Athenian Mayonnaise, might sound like an oxymoron, but it actually happens to be one of the classics of “bourgeois” Greek cooking, and something Athenian ladies of a certain generation made for company and special occasions. It was one of the dishes that showed off their skill as […]
This classic Greek recipe for artichokes belongs in the canons of “astiki” or bourgeois cuisine, a great dish that is both healthy and elegant. When such things were of value, it also showed off the skill of the home cook, almost always the lady of the house. It’s one of the great recipes of the […]