FOOD IN GREECE ARSAKEIA TOSITSEIA SCHOOLS GREECE
Gyros Gyros is a Greek dish made from meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie.In Greece it is now most often pork or chicken, whilst beef, chicken, and lamb is common in other countries. It is typically served wrapped or stuffed in a pita(pie ), along with other ingredients . There are a lot of places that sell it individually or sell other food too.
By -Lina from GREECE
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Feta cheese with honey Feta is wrapped in filo pastry before oven baked and honey is drizzled over it. The optimum balance between salty feta and sweet honey creates a mesmerizing taste.
By Dimitra, Greece
vasilopita The Vasilopita is a traditional Greek recipe, which is made on new year's day. It is a regular pie with powdered sugar on it. There is one difference though, hidden inside it is a small coin. Whoever ďŹ nds the coin is said to be lucky and gets small gift.
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Baklavas
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Preheat the oven to 325 and butter a 9x13 baking dish.
Mix together the walnuts (5 cups), sugar (1/2 cup), and cinnamon (1.5 teaspoons) in a medium sized bowl.
Unroll the phyllo dough and, using a sharp knife, cut the stack down to the size of the baking dish (You can place the dish on top of the phyllo to trace it. You should be able to get two baking dish size cuts out of the stack, with a few scraps.)
Place one piece of phyllo on the bottom of the baking dish. Using a pastry brush, brush melted butter on top of it. Layer another piece of phyllo and repeat until you have 6 layers.Spread 1 cup of the walnut mixture on top of phyllo layers in baking dish.
Layer 6 more layers of phyllo on the walnut mixture, and repeat until you have no mixture left, ending with the rest of the phyllo dough (the top layer may have more than 6 layers).
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Baklavas
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Spread the rest of the butter evenly on top of the last layer of phyllo.
Using a sharp knife, cut the top layers of phyllo into small squares, diamonds, or triangles.
Stick a whole clove in the center of each piece.
Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until golden brown.
While the baklava is baking, place the jar of honey on top of the oven. This will thin it out and make it easier to pour.When baklava is done, pour entire jar of honey on top of baklava.
Allow to cool completely, then finish cutting the baklava through to the bottom.
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Feta cheese with honey This saganaki dish takes fried feta cheese a step further by wrapping it in phyllo and then adding something honey and seaseme on the outside so that you will never want anything else at the dinner table. It is really delicious and i recommend it to everyone who visit greece.
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Greek salad Greek salad is made with pieces of tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, onion, feta cheese(usually served as a slice on top of the other ingredients), and olives(often from Kalamata), typically seasoned with salt and Greek mountain oregano, and dressed with olive oil. 8
The history of souvlaki As in other parts of the world, the practice of cooking food on spits or skewers has an ancient history in Greek culture. Excavations in Santorini, Greece, unearthed sets of stone cooking supports used before the 17th century BC. In the supports there are pairs of indentations that were likely used for holding skewers. The line of holes in the base allowed the coals to be supplied with oxygen. Mycenaean Greeks used portable trays as grills. These trays were rectangular ceramic pans that sat underneath skewers of meat. It is not clear whether these trays would have been placed directly over a fire or if the pans would have held hot coals like a portable barbecue pit. [ Homer in Iliad (1.465) mentions pieces of meat roasted on spits (ὀβελός). This is also mentioned in the works of Aristophanes] Xenophon,Aristotle, and others. In Classical Greece, a small spit or skewer was known as ὀβελίσκος (obeliskos), and Aristophanes mentions such skewers being used to roast thrushes
Modern-day souvlaki was described in the mid-19th century by a French traveler in the Boeotia region, but was not widely distributed in Greece until after World War II. Souvlaki skewers served as fast food started to be sold widely in the 1960s, after being introduced by vendors from Boeotia. The first known use of the word souvlaki in English was 1942. The issue of whether modern-day souvlaki skewers came to Greece via Turkish cuisine, and should be considered a Greek styling of shish kebab, or is a contemporary revival of Greek tradition dating as far back as 17th century BC Minoan civilization, is a topic of sometimes heated debate, at least between Greeks and Turks.
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MOUSAKAS A legendary, traditional dish that is creamy and juicy. Moussaka is served in almost all tavernas in Greece. In the big family gathering this dish is prepared by Greek homemakers. In Moussaka, tomato sauce is used to cook minced beef which is subsequently layered with sweet eggplants and creamy bĂŠchamel sauce. ALEX,GREECE
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Fakes 1.
Place lentils in a large saucepan; add enough water to cover by 1 inch. Bring water to a boil and cook until tender, about 10 minutes; drain.
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Heat olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic, onion, and carrot; cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Pour in lentils, 1 quart water, oregano, rosemary, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes.
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Stir in tomato paste and season with salt and pepper. Cover and simmer until the lentils have softened, 30 to 40 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add additional water if the soup becomes too thick. Drizzle with 1 teaspoon olive oil and red wine vinegar to taste.
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gemista
Dolma is a family of stuffed vegetable dishes that consists of stuffed peppers or grape leaves. Dolma are part of the cuisine of the South Caucasus, Balkan, Middle Eastern countries, such as the cuisine of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Jewish people, Turkey, and also Central Asia. In Armenian, they are known as tolma. Greek, they are known as yemista or gemista and in Iran, they are known as Dolmeh Felfel. In Egypt and Sudan, they are known as Filfil Mahshi. Mariza from Greece
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Greek Salad Outside Greece, "Greek salad" may be a lettuce salad with Greek-inspired ingredients, even though the original dish is distinguished by the absence of lettuce. Meanwhile, the variant without lettuce may be called horiatiki, "country salad", "peasant salad", or "village salad". Lettuce, tomatoes, feta and olives are the most standard elements in an American-style Greek salad, but cucumbers, peperoncini (pickled hot peppers), bell peppers, onions, radishes, dolmades, and anchovies/sardines are common. In Detroit, for example, Greek salad includes beets, and in the Tampa Bay Area, it often includes potato salad. Dressings containing various herbs and seasonings are frequently used in the U.S. This style of Greek salad is rarely encountered in Greece. Various other salads have also been called "Greek" in the English language in the last century, including some with no apparent connection to Greek cuisine. A 1925 Australian newspaper described a Greek salad of boiled squash dressed with sour milk a 1934 American newspaper described a mayonnaise-dressed lettuce salad with shredded cabbage and carrots.
Zannis Heliotis from GREECE
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Pastitsio
by spiros from GREECE
Pastitsio is a greek traditional food which is made of macaroni, bechamel and minced meat. It is delicious and it is baked in the oven.
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Souvlaki I
Orestis FROM GREECE
t is a Greek food that you can’t live without it...
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Spanakopita (spinachpie) Spinachpie is a traditional greek pie which is made from bread dough, spinach and feta cheese.
SeďŹ
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Gyros If you ever visit Greece you should deďŹ nitely try gyros.Gyros are an economical meal choice and so yummy! When the meat is roasted vertically and turning on the spit it is known as Gyro. Wait, it is not done yet. Slices of gyro are then placed in pita with various taste enhancers including sauce, onions, lettuce, tomatoes and potato chips. Eleftheria,GREECE
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souvlakia Souvlakia is a greek food which is really delicious
PAUL ,GREECE
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koulouri Koulouri is a greek street food that has many choices like cheese or sandwich
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Souvlaki Is a stick with meat or a stick with chicken. You can accompany it with tomato, garlic, onion, potatoes and tzatziki, a greek sauce. Myrto
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