Main Ingredient Recipes
This chowder could never pose as a Greek recipe, but I love it nonetheless, being a Yankee as well as a Greek! I add my touch to it, a little spritz of ouzo, which goes beautifully with both the seafood and the dairy. It’s a great main-course soup for a freezing winter day.
This plant-based Greek recipe for warm cauliflower, one of the healthiest and most versatile of the cruciferous vegetables, may be served warm or as a Greek salad during colder months. It’s the perfect example of easy, delicious Mediterranean diet recipes! Make sure to use real extra virgin Greek olive oil and real Greek feta for […]
Bean lovers rejoice! This Greek recipe, called Sympetherio, hails from Crete and is the absolute perfect paradigm of the healthy Mediterranean diet. In the Greek diet, as you know, beans have played a major role forever. Here, a medley of beans, grains and vegetables are mixed together into a nutritious whole. Feel free to use […]
Pesto doesn’t have to be the classic Genovese recipe! I make this easy Greek recipe for pesto with any sweet greens I have on hand and like to think of it as the perfect—and literal–example of the green Mediterranean diet! Here’s an added benefit: The almonds are a good-mood superfood, high in plant protein and […]
Orzo, called kritharaki in Greece, is the stuff of comfort food and often baked with tomatoey chicken and/or lamb. This Greek recipe for orzo pilaf is a vegetarian’s dream, packed with healthful vegetables and a great example of green Mediterranean diet cooking. The halloumi cheese adds a special twist.
This Greek recipe for a sumptuous dessert calls for some of the most iconic ingredients in Greek cooking: phyllo pastry, extra virgin Greek olive oil, tahini, Greek honey, and mastiha.
This Greek recipes for Kydonato—after the Greek word for quince, kydoni, is a popular Sunday dish in northern Greece, typically made either with lamb or beef and typically stewed all together. Lamb shoulder or other stewing cuts are the norm. The recipe that follows calls for lamb shank, which facilitates a much more elegant, even […]
Chestnuts, one of the oldest foods in the eastern Mediterranean, known to the ancient and modern Greeks alike by the same name, kastano, have always been an important food. This unusual Greek recipe, from my book My Greek Table, is one of my favorites. It is an old country dish from Arcadia in the Peloponnese. […]
This Greek recipe for shrimp wrapped in crunchy kataifi pastry is a sure-fire winner for festive tables and company. I like to pair this perfect Greek meze with my Kalamata Olive – Greek Yogurt Mayo, but you can also serve it with everything from spicy tomato salsa to grecamole and taramosalata. This is Mediterranean Diet […]
This Greek recipe is inspired by the never-ending uses for the classic combo of spinach and feta, so think of it as a kind of “Spanakopita Salmon,” in a skillet. There’s no phyllo, but I can tell you that you’ll want great bread to sop up the delicious sauce. Go ahead…indulge! It’s a nice dish […]