Mykonos Kremmydopita – Onion-Cheese Pie
This is one of the most traditional and oldest recipes from the island of Mykonos, and one of the Aegean’s most delicious savory pies!
Spring Risotto with Artichokes & Feta
A wonderful and easy dish for delicious spring Sunday lunch or dinner. Artichokes and feta are great together. To find some of the artisinal Greek products you’ll need to make this, visit my online shop here, where you’ll discover a host of lovingly curated Greek ingredients.
Vasilopita or Tsoureki French Toast
Tsoureki and Vasilopita, Greek Easter and New Year’s breads respectively, make great French toast. Both these breads are similar to Challah in that they are fluffy and contain a lot of eggs. If you’re looking for a celebratory breakfast or just a great recipe for flavorful French toast, you’ll want to try this Greek recipe. Make sure to drizzle Greek honey over the top!
Easy Mussels Cooked in Greek Saffron-Pepper-Tomato Sauce
Mussels are a classic Greek meze, super easy to cook, and a very popular seafood component of the Mediterranean diet. Did you know that mussels have been farmed in Greece since ancient times? There are a few varieties of Greek mussels, mostly cultivated off the coasts of Northern Greece, and typically a little slimmer and […]
Cauliflower Steaks With Crispy Capers and Spicy Tahini Sauce
Cauliflower is one of my absolute favourite vegetables, but Greek recipes for this often misunderstood food tend toward the boiled, lemon-olive oil approach. Roasting it brings out so much incredible flavour. Dressing it up with tahini and capers, as this recipe does, catapults cauliflower from banality into stardom!
Char-Broiled Broccoli With Avocado-Tahini Sauce
Greeks traditionally use tahini during periods of fasting as a replacement for olive oil and as a great source of calcium. Combining it with avocado in a creamy sauce is new Greek recipe, culled from tradition, of curse, but with a modern twist.
Galaktoboureko
Galaktoboureko is definitely one of the most classic and traditional Greek recipes, a much-loved phyllo dessert that makes the perfect end for almost any meal.
Sea Bass Carpaccio
The delicate crudo-type dishes that have become so popular are newcomers to the Greek recipe world but perfect Mediterranean Diet dishes! Greek chefs started the trend by using great Greek olive oil, herbs and alcoholic beverages as marinades for raw fish. Mediterranean sea bass, one of the most important farmed fish in Greece, makes a […]
Comfort Pork Chops, Drizzled with Greek Honey-Mustard-Oregano BBQ Sauce
This Greek recipe for grilled pork chops comes with a special barbecue sauce made with Greek honey, extra virgin olive oil and wild, dried Greek oregano. It’s a winner!
Tomatoes Stuffed with Trahana
Stuffed vegetables are always one of the most satisfying plant-based option. This Greek recipe calls for trahana, an ancient grain product that is one of the most beloved ingredients in the Greek kitchen.
Fava “Burgers” Topped with Santorini Tomato Paste Arugula & Caramelized Onions
Everyone loves a good burger, and all the better when it's a Greek recipe for a vegetarian burger that doesn't call for anything processed. That's often an issue with so much vegetarian and vegan cuisine. Here, the ancient Santorini yellow split pea, aka fava, is the plant protein of choice, decked out with caramelized onions, […]
Vegan Fava Sausages in Spicy Cumin-Santorini Tomato
The classic Greek recipe for soutzoukakia Smyrneika, or Smyrna-style spicy meat sausages, is the inspiration for this vegan rendition, seasoned the same way but calling for plant protein in the form of ancient fava, one of the timeless, plant-based foods of sustenance from the Greek island of Santorini.