Avgolemono
I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. This year we did not go to Sparta as my daughter wanted to stay and study. She is graduating high school and as the system in Greece sucks if you want to be admitted to University you must study day and night. Like all Greek families we [...]
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I made these three recipes one day during May, when I went to the farmers’ market and saw some lovely fresh courgettes with their flowers on. I chose the best courgettes having a flower on them. I hadn’t eaten courgette flowers for ages as unfortunately they don’t sell them alone and as much as I [...]
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Giouvarlakia are meatballs with rice in a lemony avgolemono sauce. You can use ground veal or beef, pork, or a mixture of veal or beef and pork together or chicken or turkey mince, for a healthier soup. When the meatballs are cooked, then make «avgolemono» which is an egg-lemon sauce and turn it into a [...]
Today it was a rather cold day here in Athens 2 – 8o C (35 – 46 F), so it was a good opportunity to have soup. Avgolemono soup (meaning egg and lemon soup), is a traditional Greek soup which usually starts with a chicken broth, so I boiled chicken (see tip How to… clean [...]
When I got married I already knew how to prepare lots of dishes most of them complicated and difficult. I liked cooking since I was very young and, therefore, every Sunday when I had some free time I would cook for the family. I had never tried to cook the easy, everyday recipes because Ι [...]
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Dolmades are vine leaves stuffed with ground meat and rice. There are a few different kind of dolmades depending on the region. The most common in Greece is that with the Avgolemono (egg-lemon) sauce. In other regions, including Cyprus, they make add tomato and cinnamon. During Lent we make them vegan, only with rice and [...]
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Avgolemono, from the words avgo = egg and lemoni = lemon, is a Greek sauce made with eggs, lemons and stock from the food we are cooking. It could be chicken, meat or fish stock. The amount of stock added depends on how thick you wish the consistency of this sauce. If you are making [...]
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