Wild Rice – Orzo Pilaf with Caramelized Leeks
A colorful wild rice pilaf dish, with plenty of flavors and fragrances! Feel free to enjoy it not only during the holiday season, but year-round just as well!
Category: Special Diets
Sunny Side Up Eggs Cooked Over Spicy Vegetables
FUN TIP: First, crack each egg in a small, individual bowl. When the mixture has thickened, throw each egg from the bowl straight to the vegetable mixture.
Sheet Pan Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Kale with Vegan Basil Pesto
How to Choose Sweet Potatoes: Choose fresh sweet potatoes that are heavy for their size, hard, smooth, and free of bruises. Watch out for shriveled skin, dark spots, or indentations, as these are common signs of decay. Cleaning Sweet Potatoes: Before using, scrub sweet potatoes with a produce brush while rinsing under cool water. Cut […]
White Beans with Eggplant and Vegan Feta
PRACTICAL FACT: Beans are one of the most important foods to consume when thinking about a healthy longevity diet. They’re rich in fiber and complex carbs and they are crucial to one of the most important aspects of health: our gut! Ikarians and Greeks in general cook beans every which way, but it’s when combining […]
Lentil Tabbouleh With Crumbled Nuts
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Whole Wheat Kalamata Olive Bread
Is there anything better than the smell of freshly baked bread? This Greek recipe for olive bread contains the entire Mediterranean diet in every slice: grains and olive oil with a spritz of ouzo for flavor, healthy herbs and tangy Kalamata olives. Enjoy it for breakfast, lunch or dinner!
Simple Onion Pie – Kremmydopita
Miracle Onions and Leeks. Onions and leeks are miracle ingredients, bursting with nutrients and compounds that help fight cancer and diabetes. Too boot, they’re also really tasty and the foundation of so many great Greek recipes. They even star in a few, like this simple onion-leek pie from Ikaria! One of the major phytochemical compounds […]
In season: Apple Crisp with Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Many traditional Greek sweets, especially during periods of fasting, such as Lent, call for olive oil instead of butter. An apple crisp isn’t exactly traditional Greek food. I’ve “hellenized” a classic American dessert by adding two distinct greek flavors, that of olive oil and the scented geranium, arbaroriza in Greek, which Greek cooks often use […]
Oven-Fried Sweet Potatoes with Herbs and Olive Oil
Highly nutritious sweet potatoes, rich in antioxidants, were a really important longevity food on the Blue Zone Greek island of Ikaria. Indeed, they were once the dessert of choice, simply baked and savored by children who are now well into their 80s and 90s, who probably didn’t know way back when that consuming them actually […]
Broccoli – Feta Pan-Fried “Grilled” Cheese
I love a meltingly good grilled cheese sandwich and this one is exactly that. For years, I would gravitate toward the cheddar-tomato duo when it came to grilled cheese delights, but then I realized how limiting that was! There’s a whole world of grilled cheese ideas out there, and this Greek recipe for a Greek-feta-broccoli […]