Main Ingredient Recipes
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 […]
Cretan beet salad with Greek yogurt and walnuts is a perfect Mediterranean Diet choice for chilly weather.
Beans are a New World product but bean soup. fasolada in Greek, is Greece’s national dish! Greek herbs and great Greek olive oil will make this hearty soup even more delicious. Find them both on my online store here.
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.
Rock or Sea Samphire, called kritamo in Greek, grows wild along the coasts of Ikaria and elsewhere. Pickled, it is a great meze for ouzo.
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.
Tabouleh with walnuts, yogurt and herbs is a greek salad recipe that can double as a main-course, for Meatless Mondays and more! Skip the yogurt, and you’ve got a totally vegan dish, too!
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.