Greek Recipes

• Village Salad/Country Salad (generally known outside of Greece and Cyprus as "Greek Salad") - This is a salad based on tomato, cucumber, bell peppers and red onion (lettuce is rarely used). The salad is seasoned with salt, black pepper and oregano, and dressed with olive oil. Additionally, feta cheese, olives and capers are sometimes added.
  
  
  
• Pita bread - A flat bread prepared using wheat flour and yeast, but prepared without being allowed to rise.
  
  
• Greek dips - A variety of dips are commonly served with Pita bread, either as a starter or as a side dish. These include Hummus (chickpea dip), Melitzanosalata (eggplant dip), Skordalia (garlic sauce dip), Tahini (sesame paste dip), Taramosalata (carp roe dip) and Tzatziki (yogurt, cucumber and garlic dip).
  
  
• Keftedes - Fried meatballs with oregon and mint.
  
  
• Dolmades - A memorable dish, made with grapevine leaves stuffed with rice, vegetables and sometimes meat.
  
  
• Kleftiko - Lamb marinated in garlic and lemon, and then slowly baked on the bone in a pit oven. The name of this dish is derived from "Klepht" which refers to bandits and warlike mountain people who lived in the Greek countryside when Greece was part of the Ottomon Empire - most of whom participated in the Greek War of Independence. The word "Kleftiko" can be translated as "stolen meat" or the the "meat of thieves".
  
  
• Stifado - A beef and onion stew, flavoured with red wine and cinnamon.
  
  
  
• Moussaka - Perhaps the best-known Greek dish (outside of the Greece), moussaka is a baked dish consisting of layers of minced meat and sliced eggplant and tomato, topped with white sauce and baked.
  
  
• Souvlaki - Meat, fish or shrimp grilled on a skewer.
  
  
  
• Baklava - a sweet pastry made from layers of phyllo dough, with chopped nuts and sweetened with sugar or honey.

• Greek Recipes & Cookbooks
  
  
• Recipes and Cookbooks

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