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

Greek Food Recipes Released: 2011-08-07 Kindle Edition (48 pages) List Price: $2.99* *(As of 10:05 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The book contains 99 tasty Greek recipes. There are step-by-step cooking instructions for all the recipes.

Greek Cooking For Beginners By Despina Tsolakidou Amazon.com Released: 2011-12-28 Kindle Edition   Product Description: The book is a short guide to Greek cuisine, including the most characteristic dishes from Greece. The instructions are simple and can be followed even by those with almost no experience in cooking. Learn how to cook as a Greek with a few fresh, seasonal ingredients and amaze all. Now it is time to gather around friends and family and enjoy a Greek meal that can be prepared easily, quickly and mostly with little money.

Best Traditional Recipes Of Greek Cooking By Maria Mavromataki Editions Haitalis Paperback (224 pages) Lowest New Price: $15.99* Lowest Used Price: $4.69* *(As of 10:05 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here

The Best Traditional Recipes of Greek Cooking By Dimitri Haitalis VERY GOOD Editions Dimitri Hatialis Paperback (190 pages) Lowest New Price: $19.95* Lowest Used Price: $3.95* *(As of 10:05 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Cook Book

The Complete Book of Greek Cooking: The Recipe Club of St. Paul's Orthodox Cathedral By St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church William Morrow Cookbooks Released: 1991-06-05 Paperback (352 pages) List Price: $21.99* Lowest New Price: $12.45* Lowest Used Price: $6.36* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:05 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: More than 200 unique and intriguing recipes for all kinds of Greek dishes.

Around a Greek Table: Recipes & Stories Arranged According to the Liturgical Seasons of the Eastern Church By Katerina Katsarka Whitley Lyons Press Paperback (256 pages) List Price: $19.95* Lowest New Price: $13.57* Not yet published* *(As of 10:05 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Kefi, loosely translated, is the Greek sense of joy, and is often found around the dinner table during large and boisterous family meals of Spanakopita, Keftedes (Greek meatballs), and much, much more. Largely considered a bit of a mystery to Americans, Greek cooking is far more expansive than simply prepping up a few gyro sandwiches and Greek salads. There is an earthiness about Greek cooking, an amalgam of many historic influences. Lighter than southern Italian, much less pretentious than French, much more refined than Middle Eastern, Greek cuisine at its best is aromatic, tasty, and satisfying.   Around a Greek Table explores the intricacies of Greek cooking and makes these once-mysterious recipes both understandable and possible. The book also delves deep into stories of Greek life and kefi around the dinner table. The 100 recipes are organized around the Eastern Church’s yearly seasons, each explored in one of eight chapters, with historical and personal essays exploring the ancient stories that are told around Greek tables in the honored tradition of combining myths with food.

Greek Cooking: The Classic Recipes Of Greece Made Simple - 70 Authentic Traditional Dishes From The Heart Of The Mediterranean Shown Step-By-Step In 280 Glorious Photographs By Rena Salaman Anness Paperback (96 pages) List Price: $12.99* Lowest New Price: $18.00* Lowest Used Price: $7.50* *(As of 10:05 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Recipes range from appetizers, soups, fish and shellfish, poultry and meat; through vegetarian dishes, side dishes and salads; to desserts, cakes, sweets, pastries, cookies and breads.

Greek Cooking - Traditional Recipes (Ekdotike Athenon Travel Guides) By T. Tolis Ekdotike Athenon Paperback (192 pages) List Price: $29.95* Lowest New Price: $8.95* Lowest Used Price: $1.53* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:05 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Since prehistoric times, the sun-blessed Greek land generously offered its fortunate inhabitants an exceptionally good quality of produce, so that they could develop the nutritional need of the human body into a sensitive science and art. Gastronomy, one of the most significant manifestations of an entropic and ephemeral applied art, characterizes the ancient cultures of the great civilizations. Hence the French cuisine is a natural evolution, developing through the years from the roots of ancient Roman gastronomy; whereas the Chinese equivalent has its roots in the old Chinese Empire. But in both cases, the historic events and contacts with other nations and cultures enriched and widened the original gastronomic experience. These were either cultural contacts, which contributed new ideas and forms of cooking, or commercial contacts that introduced new products and flavours. This is also what happened with the ancient Greek cookery, which developed into Byzantine cooking owing to the Roman admixture, and later into the modern Greek cuisine, from the influences contributed by the Venetian and Turkish occupation of Greece. However, even today Greek cookery with its wonderful local varieties is basically the same as that described in ancient times by Homer and Hesiod and later in the Hellenistic period by Athenaeus. The sun's warm rays still caress the olives, vines and fruit The delicate soil of Greece and the mild climate give an especially subtle taste and fragrance to the vegetables, fruit, pulses, cereals and herbs. The Greek seas supply delicious fish and a large variety of other seafood. The meat and fowl, due to the traditional way of feeding, have kept their original taste. In quality, the Greek oil is superior to that of the other Mediterranean countries and Greek wines have a delicate taste and a subtle aroma. To all of the above you should add the warm Greek hospitality, and the joy of life, derived from the bright Greek landscape, and through the paths of tasty delicacies allow yourself to be led to the height of pleasure.

Authentic Greek Recipes By Maria Avlonitou CreateSpace Paperback (152 pages) List Price: $33.32* Lowest New Price: $28.46* Lowest Used Price: $21.77* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 10:05 Pacific 4 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Delicious, traditional Greek dishes from recipes used in the home by local mothers and grandmothers! You'll find well-known dishes here as well as others that are perhaps not known outside Greece. All of them simple and delicious! The book includes a step-by-step guide to making your own filo pastry as well as a Greek Food & Drink Glossary.