Below are recipes for some of the dishes we learned to make. καλή όρεξη (good appetite in Greek)!
We'll be going back to visit Helen this fall, so if you'd like to learn Greek cooking hands-on, please join us!
Lamb of Lesvos
2 legs of lamb [in
our case they weren’t fresh; 20 days after the kill to ensure that they were
soft].
Marinade for 24 hours in red wine (reserve marinade).
Place ingredients in a pressure cooker:
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| Lamb and onions |
1/2 cup olive oil
1 onion chopped and sautée
Next add 1 cinnamon stick
Once onion is translucent add leg of Lamb
Add 1 onion studded with about 20 whole cloves
About 1 tsp. of cumin, paprika & chilli powder
2 bay leaves
Add marinate
500 gr tomato sauce
1 tbsp. tomato paste
3 tbsp. fig syrup (or sugar)
Add enough boiling water to cover
Add 1 cup washed rice
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| Stuffed Peppers |
Cook on stovetop in a pressure cooker for 45 minutes or with
normal boiling cook 2 hours.
Peppers stuffed with
Feta cheese
Small sweet red and yellow peppers
Cut off the tops (keep for later)
and remove seeds
Stuffing:
Feta mashed with a fork mixing in
Feta mashed with a fork mixing in
One tsp of oregano, thyme sage, and mint
Finally chopped tomato
Finally chopped onion
¼ cup olive oil
Stuff peppers, place in a glass baking dish, and bake ¾ hour
at 350-374 F
Stuffed Eggplant Lesbian Style
Cut off the tops and bottoms
Peel down 2 sides
3 or 4 cuts down each
unpeeled sides so as to create squares at the top of long pieces but make sure
to leave the last couple of centimeters of the narrowest end in tact/uncut.
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[Looking at from the bottom]
Stuffing:
Finely chopped red onions
Finely chopped tomato
Finely chopped zucchini
Parsley, garlic, cinnamon, paprika, cumin, mint
Add stuffing into the cuts and bake covered with water until cooked
Add olive oil towards the end
Stuffed onions-
“savanya”
Peel and cut ½ way thru lengthwise
Boil until tender
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| Onion layers stuffed and ready to cook |
Cool while preparing stuffing,
½ beef and ½ pork 300
gr
Add mint, cumin, salt, and parsley
1/4 cup Raki - you may need to go the Greece for this one!
¼ cup uncooked rice
Once cooled remove hearts and chop up into the stuffing mixture
Before rolling meat into the onion layers, remove film from in between the layers
With cut at bottom, place in saucepan
Add 1 cup of beef stock
Olive oil
Make sure they’re covered with liquid; add plate to keep
them down; add saucepan lid
Boil for ½ hour
Reminder: January 15 is Greek Dinner Around the World Day!
So, try one or two of these delicious dishes. I recommend the Savanya (or stuffed onions) . And for a tasty Greek wine try Domaine Gerovassiliou 2012 White Wine from Epanomi, Greece. καλή όρεξη!
