Greece

Menu Guide

Arni: Lamb

Avgolemono: Rich egg and lemon sauce, but also name of traditional egg-lemon soup

Baklava: Nut pastry diamonds sweetened with honey-lemon syrup

Bourekakia: Savory appetizers made with filo sheets filled with of meat or vegetables

Dolmades: Grape leaves filled with meat and-or rice filling—also called Dolmas

Farina: Finely ground wheat flour used to make pasta, also used in cakes and custards

Fava: Beans that are eaten shelled or cooked in the pod

Feta: Pungent cheese made from sheep's milk

Filo: Paper thin pastry sheets—also called phyllo

Fournos: Traditional Greek clay oven

Garides: Shrimp

Grape Leaves: Tender leaves from grape vines used to wrap fillings and decorate platters of food

John Dory: Popular fish used in Greek food

Kafes: coffee

Kalamaria: squid

Kalamata: Classic Greek olive, kalamata oil also available

Kapari: Capers, pickled unopened flower buds from a Mediterranean bush

Kasseri: Creamy white cheese

Kafalotiri: Hard cheese used freshly grated

Khorta: Wild greens

Kourabiethes: Rich butter cookies topped with powdered sugar, sometimes flavored

Macaronia: Greek pasta

Mezethes: Appetizers—also called Meze

Mizithera: Cheese made from goat or sheep milk

Moussaka: Lamb and eggplant casserole

Orzo: Rice-shaped pasta

Ouzo: Anise-flavored liqueur

Pasta Flora: Pastry tart filled with cherry or apricot puree

Pastitsio: Pasta and lamb casserole topped with rich white sauce

Phillo: see Filo

Pilafi: Rice cooked with onions, seasoned with herbs, often served with nuts

Pita: Flatbread used to hold grilled meats or vegetables, or used with dips

Psari: Fish

Salata: Salad

Salatika: Green salad

Skorthalia: Garlic sauce made with almonds

Souvlakia: Skewered lamb

Spanakopeta: Flaky spinach pastry made with filo dough

Tahini: Sesame paste, often added to pureed chick peas

Tiropita: Flaky cheese-filled pastry made with filo dough

 

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Greece

• Backgrounder
• What to Eat
• Menu Guide

Greek Cookbooks

• The Olive and the Caper by Susanna Hoffman
  • Recipes
  • Leek and Olive Pie (Prassopita)
  • Warm Greens (Horta)
  • Roasted Lamb Shanks with Garlic and Thyme

• Greek Cuisine: The New Classics by Peter Conistis
  • Recipes
  • Mezethes & Appetizers Chickpea Bourekia
  • Meat & Poultry Grilled Chicken
  • Desserts Sticky Yogurt Cake

More Greek Cookbooks (with recipes)

• Spice by Ana Sortun
               (includes recipes from Cyprus and Greece)
• Little Foods of the Mediterranean by Clifford A. Wright
• Meze by Diane Kochilas
• The Foods of the Greek Islands by Aglaia Kremezi
• The Glorious Foods of Greece by Diane Kochilas

Greek Recipes

Greek Easter Menu

• Greek Orthodox Easter

• Cucumbers and Yogurt Appetizer (Tzatziki)
• Spinach Pie (Spanakopita)
• Filo Dough (Phyllo)
• Easter Soup (Mageritsa)
• Egg-Lemon Soup (an alternative to Mageritsa)
• Roast Lamb
• Lamb on a Spit (Greek-style)
• Village Salad (Choriatiki Salata)
• Lettuce Salad (Maroulosalata)
• Green Beans in Oil (Fasolakia Prasina Ladera)
• Oven Roasted Potatoes (Patatess Fournou Ladorigani)
• Easter Cookies (Koulourakia Paschalina)
• Easter Bread (Tsoureki)
• Baklava
• "Heavy" Coffee (Kafes Varys Glykos)

More Greek Recipes

• Baked Fish (Psaria Plaki)
• Bulgur Salad
• Chick Pea Puree (Hummus bi Tahina)
• Egg Lemon Sauce (Avgolemono Sauce)
• Egg Lemon Soup (Avgolemono)
• Feta Cheese Pastry (Tiropita)
• Honey-Dipped Cookies (Finikia)
• Lamb and Eggplant Casserole (Moussaka)
• Lamb and Pasta Casserole (Pastitsio)
• Meatballs (Keftedakia)
• Pork Kabobs (Souvlaki)
• Salad with Greens (Khorta Salatika)
• Spinach-Cheese Pastries (Spanakopetes)
• Stuffed Grape Leaves (Dolmathes)
• Tomato Salad
• Walnut Pastry (Baklava)
• Yogurt Cake (Yiaourtopitta Glykisma)
• Yogurt Cheese
• Yogurt Dip

from Kate's Global Kitchen

• Phyllo Dough & Tips

 

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