Flatbreads
Lagana is a delicious flatbread which is usually baked on the first day of Lent of the Orthodox Easter. This year I wanted to make something different from the classic Lagana so I made it with olives and rosemary. I prepared it from the previous day so that I could bake it early in the [...]
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Did you know that In Greece we have our own pizza which is called Ladenia (Λαδένια), meaning olive oil bread. This is a vegan pizza and is a speciality from the island of Kimolos. I saw this recipe a couple of years ago on Elias Mamalakis T.V. show, a famous Greek T.V. persona. The main [...]
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I have a few pizza recipes to share with you, as well as a couple of calzone recipes I made recently using the same dough, so before giving the recipes here is the dough I use. I’ve been making pizzas for many years but this is my best pizza dough. My friends and relatives say [...]
I thought making homemade tortillas would be very difficult and reading instructions on the net I was puzzled if I should attempt to make them or not, as a cast iron skillet was required which I do not have. My friend Ben, of What’s Cooking, is hosting an event Homemade #4 – Tortillas, so at [...]
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Focaccia is very similar to the Greek flatbread named lagana , which I have posted some time ago. As Wikipedia describes focaccia, the basic recipe is thought by some to have originated with the Etruscans or ancient Greeks, but it is now known as a delicacy of the Ligurian cuisine. The only difference between the [...]
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As I said yesterday, when I made koulouria, I had made double the recipe as with the remaining dough I wanted to make one of our favourite flatbreads: Lagana. Originally it was an unleavened bread but eventually some yeast was added. Αncient Greeks colonized Southern Italy and Sicily between 800 to 500 b.C. and [...]
What’s a Lahmajun? Lahmajun is one of the staple meals ofArmenia and it is often described as the Armenian or Middle-Eastern analogue to the Pizza. However, a Lahmajun has a very thin crust, and is topped with a meat sauce topping, usually lamb or beef-based, that is cooked with tomato and Middle Eastern spices.. Armenia [...]
Cypriot pitta bread are much different to the Greek pitas. They are flat breads like the other pita but are different in shape and in taste. I’ve been in Greece for 27 years and have never found any, at least where I live. (After a year, writing this post, you can find Cypriot pitas in [...]
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