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Cypriot Koubes: Yiayia’s Recipe
My grandmother’s recipe for traditional Cypriot koubes: fried bulgar-wheat shells, filled with minced meat. Just as you’ll find them in Cyprus.
Ikarian Soufiko Recipe: vegetable stew from Ikaria
The vegetable stew that you’ll find in almost every household and restaurant in Ikaria, and in every season.
Chicken giouvetsi: chicken with kritharaki / manestra
Chicken giouvetsi: chicken with kritharaki/manestra/orzo pasta baked in the oven.
Traditional Athenian bifteki tylichto with homemade tomato saltsa
One of the simplest ways to make an Athenian-style tylichto or ‘souvlaki’, in one of its earliest traditional forms. Plus, a basic tomato sauce recipe for souvlakia.
Smyrneika Soutzoukakia Recipe by City Girl goes to Chorio
City Girl goes to Chorio’s Smyrneika soutzoukakia – traditional meatballs in spiced tomato salsa from Asia Minor.
Kreatopita Recipe with leftover souvla & souvlakia
Kreatopita (meat pie), but using leftover meat from your BBQ (souvla/kontosouvli, souvlakia etc.).
Traditional kreatopita with pork: Greek meat pie recipe
Kreatopita: traditional Greek meat pie with pork and onions, including handmade filo pastry.
Koupepia Recipe: Cypriot dolmadakia with minced meat, tomatoes, mint and cinnamon
Koupepia: dolmadakia aka dolmades aka sarmadakia, but the Cypriot way, with pork mince, tomatoes, cinnamon and mint.
Spetsofai recipe: spicy Greek sausage stew with peppers and tomatoes
Spetsofai is a spicy traditional Greek sausage and pepper stew from Pylio, perfect for the winter months or as a spicy meze.
Manitaropita: Greek mushroom pie Recipe
An often overlooked traditional Greek village pita: manitaropita, aka mushroom pie. Using handmade filo.
Mushrooms with commandaria
A simple, soulful recipe that places the emphasis on disproportionately tasty, quality ingredients, most inspired by my time in Cyprus.
How to make Greek Frappé: instant iced coffee recipe
How to make a classic Greek frappé: iced instant coffee born in Thessaloniki and enjoyed for decades across Greece and Cyprus.
Tsoureki Recipe: Traditional Greek Easter bread
Greece’s answer to brioche bread that Greeks traditionally eat around Easter.
Baklava Recipe with Souvlakination’s secret Chios mastiha ice cream combination
Baklava recipe with an original Souvlakination serving suggestion using PAPAFiLiPOU Chios Mastiha ice cream.
Traditional Greek Mousakas Recipe
The tastiest, most straightforward traditional, authentic recipe for Nikolaos Tselementes’ ultimate modern Greek classic: mousakas.
Tsouchti Manis Recipe: Peloponnesian pasta with Myzithra
A traditional Greek pasta dish with myzithra and egg from the Peloponnese.
Traditional Athenian souvlaki recipe with kalamaki: How to make souvlakia properly v.1
How to make a traditional, authentic Athenian souvlaki with kalamaki. With references to traditional souvlatzidika in Athens. Plus: which pites and sauces to use.
Traditional Spanakopita Recipe (Hortopita)
A traditional Greek village spanakopita or hortopita with homemade filo pastry. The real thing.
How to make freddo espresso at home
How you can make Greeks’ favourite coffee order at home, plus the difference between freddo espresso, frappé and 'Greek coffee.
Karpouzopita Recipe: Aegean watermelon pie
The Greek watermelon pie that originates from the Cyclades in the Aegean.
