Category: Greek Cuisine

    You know summer’s arrived when Greeks start cooking stuffed vegetables! Gemista (Greek for filled), are summer vegetables, usually tomatoes and bell peppers but courgettes and aubergines are also firm favourites, stuffed with...

    Basil, the word comes from the Greek, basileus, meaning king and is said to have first grown on the original cross of Christ. Even though it represented hatred to the ancient Greeks,...

    I don’t know how I had managed to forget about this delicious Greek recipe for kokkinisto, tender, braised beef in a rich, spicy tomato sauce, one of my all-time favourites, taught to me by...

    This Greek-style meatloaf makes for a tasty and filling main course, soft and juicy on the inside, crispy on the outside, accompanied by mounds of perfectly roasted, spicy potatoes. Any leftovers are...

  What are keftedes? Keftedes, or keftedakia (Little keftedes!), are fried Greek meatballs, or, just to confuse you, they can be baked, or, then again, they may be called soutzoukakia, which are spiced up...

  Now, when you think of aubergines and Greece, you’re thinking of moussaka right? But, did you know the most famous dish of Greece; moussaka, has a close relation, “Papoutsakia”, in English “little shoes”?  ...