Skordalia (garlic dip) 42 Soups 67 Classic Greek lamb 103 Skordalia with walnuts 43 Yiouverlakia soup (meatball Lemon and oregano potatoes 104 Contents Htipiti (fetta and capsicum soup with egg and lemon Lamb and okra casserole 105 dip) 44 sauce) 70 Pork and celery avgolemono 1 08 Greek style scrambled eggs 46 Fasolada (Greek bean soup) 72 Pork with leeks 109 Pan fried fetta 47 Chicken soup avgolemeno 73 Baked fish 110 The Greek Pantry 22 Saganaki 49 Lentil soup 75 Grilled lamb cutlets 115 Preserved olives 52 Fish soup avgolemono 76 Braised cauliflower with Starters 25 Roasted red peppers 54 Revithada (chickpea soup) 80 tomato and smoked Keftethes (meat balls) 30 Fried zucchini 55 sweet paprika 116 Keftethes in tomato sauce 33 Vegetable rissoles 56 Main Meals 85 Greek roast pork 118 Roasted fetta 34 Scrambled eggs with Yemista (stuffed red peppers) 88 Roast potatoes with tomato 119 Taramasalata (fish roe dip) 35 tomatoes 59 Pastitso 91 Lamb and macaroni Melitzanosalata (eggplant Scrambled eggs with Moussaka 94 casserole 121 dip) 38 roasted red capsicum 60 Dolmades (stuffed cabbage Oven-baked chicken and Tzatziki (cucumber and Patatokeftethes leaves) 98 rice 122 yoghurt dip) 41 (potato croquettes) 63 Lamb and lettuce fricassee 100 Baccala with skordalia 125 Pork and cabbage casserole 126 Youvesti (lamb with tomatoes Watermelon and fetta Beef stifado (beef and and pasta) 156 salad with pomegranate onion stew) 127 Grilled calamari 157 and mint 186 Baked vegetables 130 Roast chicken with potatoes 158 Village-style eggplant Green bean casserole 133 Keftethes with risoni 161 salad 189 Spanakorizo (spinach Prasoriso (leeks with rice) 166 Zucchini salad 190 and rice) 134 Souvlaki 167 Green bean salad 191 Baked beans 135 Hilopites (egg noodles with Traditional Greek salad 196 Cauliflower salad 198 Desserts 211 Homemade filo 142 cheese) 170 Revani (semolina cake Spanakopita (spinach pie) 145 Pilaf 173 Domatosalata (tomato and onion salad) 199 with syrup) 214 Tiropitakia (cheese pie) 146 Moschari kokkinisto Loukoumades (honey Prassopita (leek pie) 149 (veal stew) 174 Rocket and orange salad 201 doughnuts) 217 Onion pie 150 Broccoli salad 202 Rizogalo (rice pudding) 218 Fried potatoes 151 Salads 181 Horta salata (endive salad) 203 Kourabiedes (biscuits in icing Fried potatoes with egg 152 Lettuce salad 184 Lahano toursi (pickled sugar) 221 cabbage) 204 Fried calamari 155 Beetroot salad 185 Karydopita (walnut cake Roasted red capsicum and with syrup) 224 tomato salad 205 Halva 225 Easter Festival Food 249 Galahtoboureko (custard pie Tsourekia (Easter bread) 256 with syrup) 227 Koulouria (Easter biscuits) 258 Olive oil cake 228 Mayeritsa (Greek Pancakes 229 Easter soup) 261 Plum compote 231 Melomakarona (honey Dressings and Sauces 263 biscuits) 232 Oil-lemon dressing 264 Orange rind preserve in Avgolemono (egg and syrup 234 lemon sauce) 265 Quince preserve in syrup 236 Olive oil and vinegar Pears and raspberries dressing 268 compote 238 Béchamel sauce 269 Yoghurt 239 Baklava 240 Acknowledgements 271 Greek coffee 244