Crete Recipes
Dakos Salad with Yellow & Red Tomatoes is simply a version of “the World’s Best Salad!” It calls for dakos, a kind of rusk, or hard tack. In the Greek kitchen, there are many different kinds of rusks, or paximadia in Greek. Among these, the most famous is the round barley Cretan rusk, called Dakos, […]
These sweet and sour baked lentils with honey, vinegar, and leeks is a Greek recipe that I adapted from a dish called Minoan Lentils, which was originally published in the My Greek Table book. It’s so nutritious, easy and delicious, that it stands as a kind of poster child for great Mediterranean diet bean recipes. […]
This Greek salad has been voted the world’s best salad and it went a little viral online. It is basically a classic Greek salad, or Horiatiki (Village Salad), as prepared on the island of Crete, with a local barley rusk called Dako. That’s a round rusk that comes split across the middle. You can make […]
Here’s a Greek recipe for iced tea made with ancient herbal classics like sage and mountain tea. It’s the perfect quaff for a Mediterranean diet frame of mind! Herbal tea is one of the secrets to longevity on Blue Zone islands like Ikaria, but truth be told, people all over Greece drink herbal teas, usually […]
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 […]
Crete, birthplace of the Mediterranean Diet, is also the home of this unusual Greek meze recipe for slow-cooked beef with honey. It comes from a small restaurant in Rethymnon called Avli.
Here is a recipe from the My Greek Table book, inspired by my friend Katerina, who has built her Rethymnon restaurant, Avli, into a beautiful space, housed in an old Venetian building in the old town of this quaint port city. One of the best things on her delicious Cretan menu is also one of […]
Lamb, the quintessential Mediterranean meat, is savored by all, regardless of religious or ethnic heritage. All over the Mediterranean one finds lamb chops on the grill. This dish begs to differ by proposing the chops be seared in a skillet. Mastiha makes up part of the marinade, infusing its aroma in the lamb long before […]
One of my favorite recipes from Season 1 of My Greek Table. You can make a Greek-inspired pesto with grape leaves and feta, and think of this traditional product well beyond its most famous dish, dolmades! To find some of the artisinal Greek products you'll need to make this, visit my online shop here, where […]
Greek summer without pans full of stuffed tomatoes and peppers is unthinkable! Look for large, firm tomatoes that aren’t too watery and remember to season all the vegetables with a sprinkling of salt and sugar. To find some of the artisinal Greek products you’ll need to make this, visit my online shop here, where you’ll […]