One of our traditional soups is the Avgolemono (egg-lemon) soup, which is usually boiled rice in chicken broth and finished in an egg-lemon sauce.
Giouvarlakia is a deviation of this traditional soup and instead of boiling rice in chicken broth we make meatballs with ground veal and rice which we dredge in flour and cook in [...]
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 [...]
This dish is a favourite with my family, not only as a dessert, but as a special treat. The end result of this version should be more a cream than a «set» pudding, and instead of chilling, try serving it at room temperature. This recipe is easy and has few ingredients, but it needs [...]
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 them in a tomato sauce. During Lent we make them vegan, only with [...]
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Koupepia (as we call them in Cyprus) are dolmades stuffed with rice, ground pork or beef, fresh herbs and seasoning and tomato. They can be served as part of a meze platter or salad plate, eaten as finger food or as a main dish.
The difference from the Greek ones is that in Cyprus we add [...]
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Fakes moutzentra is a lentil recipe we make in Cyprus and is a high protein, balanced healthy food, especially with the combination of rice. In Greece they make a similar recipe in the Aegean islands which is called Fakoryzo, meaning lentils an rice. I remember when my mother used to make moutzentra, she would fry [...]
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Rice Pilaf, has its origin from the Persian pilau also called polao, pilav, pilaff, plov or pulao in other languages. One of the earliest literary references to pilau can be found in the histories of Alexander the Great when describing Bactrian hospitality.
Bactria was an eastern Persian (Iranian) province, which was the birthplace of Alexander’s wife [...]
