A look at Greek cuisine may be some interesting recipes. Just what is other than Greek cuisine and what are its favorite foods and how they are made?
Typical Greek food
Greeks, as you may know, a popular meat - lamb. In some Greek houses almost only red meat we eat lamb. Veal is sometimes used, but this is the second, beef and pork, the third is rarely used.
Chicken is another favorite of the Greeks,and it would be difficult to imagine the rice, cooking without the other.
Fish dishes are very popular, and they are usually made with olive oil, garlic, onions and tomatoes, served with lemon half. Octopus and squid, in addition to the usual variety of fish, are much appreciated by the Greeks.
For the vegetables, beans (both dry and fresh) and promotes eggplant. Since meat supplies are limited, braised eggplant is used, baked, roasted, crushed and filled in a sink.
One ofCharacteristics of the preparation of vegetables, meat, the style is the use of Greek tomatoes and tomato paste, onions and / or garlic are used for flavoring.
Greeks love their tomatoes, and how it is used Gemistà filled with tomatoes, rice, onion and herbs, or with rice and meat.
Greek cuisine is not spicy. Instead of cooking is often seasonal produce with oregano, mint, basil, bay leaves, sesame seeds and parsley. A pinch of cinnamon adds a mild but distinctive Greek seasoning mix.
Lemons play an important role. In fact, some flavors of greek as the egg and lemon sauce, a creamy cake that provides a variety of dishes and soups. The home uses lemon juice to almost everything they serve. Salad, lemon juice instead of vinegar is used. Greek cooking is almost always their food in olive oil and the oil is also commonly used to make the taste> Power.
Greek salad
The typical Greek salad (salty horiatiki), is part of raw vegetables and greens could, finely chopped celery, cucumber thinly sliced onion, tomatoes, peppers, sliced lengthwise, radishes and parsley.
The salad is placed on a large plate and built to a point in the middle. First, large lettuce leaves are placed on the plate. The rest of the lettuce is shredded and a hill in the center.Other vegetables are added on the hill.
As for the salad dressing, oregano, salt and pepper together can with a dressing of olive oil and lemon juice (or vinegar if you like) are added. For a large disk, cup of oil by about a third of oil used, together with the juice of a lemon. The salad is called with anchovies, black olives and feta cheese small pieces of a white, soft, salty cheese made from goat's milk and it breaks easily and gives a unique flavor to the salad garnish.(Small pieces of cheese can be substituted for the feta.)
Soups and lemon sauce
Soup is often a main dish and is eaten with pieces of bread and traditional Greek salad. Beans, peas and lentils soups are very popular. A popular soup is avgolemono soup-a chicken soup flavored with lemon. And 'now popular among people in different parts of the world.
A simple recipe for chicken soup with lemon is: Wash half a cup of rice in warm water and soak for fifteen minutes,Drain. Bring six cups of chicken stock, bring to a boil. Add rice and cook over low heat for fifteen minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Now, prepare the lemon sauce and egg, add two eggs and good for whites. Make sure they are tight. Then pour the yolk in the whites and beat up. Then add two tablespoons of lemon juice and gradually beat in a cup of hot stock added gradually, stirring constantly to prevent lumps. Add the restbroth, stirring constantly, so can not cook.
This fine soup can be prepared in various ways. Some cooks like their own chicken stock from chicken backs and wings do. In addition, some prefer the soup with chopped onion, celery, sliced, cut up two carrots.
Meat dishes with flavor greek
Lamb is in many ways, boiled, fried or grilled or spit. Many people who are not Greeks, when they tryprepare a meal of lamb is too strong a taste for it, but if cooked lamb from the Greeks, which I find very pleasant and tasty to eat. This is due to the way the Greeks cook lamb.
Are you going to roast a leg of lamb, and you want to avoid a strong flavor of lamb, cut all the fat. Making cuts in the flesh, maybe sixteen or so, with the tip of a small knife. Sliver four cloves of garlic and add the tapes in the slots. Take some 'salt andPepper with garlic chips. Spice Rub the meat with lemon juice, thyme, butter, salt and pepper. Grease occasionally with lemon juice and butter. To cover the juices in the leg of lamb with aluminum foil. Roast for about three hours at 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Many people enjoy Souvlakia Arni, greek kebab. To prepare this dish, tender pieces of lamb marinated in olive oil, lemon juice and wine. With salt and pepper and a pinch of oregano and thenGrilled on a spit over hot coals. During the cooking oil can lubricate the meat occasionally with a little 'olive oil.
For lamb chops or beef, a greek flavor you can cook to desired doneness, then sprinkle with oregano and lemon juice. Baked or fried liver is also seasoned with oregano and lemon juice. When the fried chicken, baste them with butter and lemon juice and some chefs, like a pinch of oregano.
Do you want a different kindMeat sauce, roast or steak, the following test: In order to heated butter or oil, add a clove or two of minced garlic. Then add chopped celery and some chopped onion and fry slowly. When cooked, mix in some canned tomatoes and a bit 'of tomato paste. As you mix the sauce and heat, add a pinch of oregano. They have a very tasty sauce for meats and vegetables.
One of the most popular dishes in Greece moussaka. This dish is baked layers of roastedEggplant and ground lamb. E 'topped with tomato, oregano and a pinch of cinnamon. Then a white sauce and grated cheese, baked in a golden swelling and served hot, cut into squares.
One of the most famous dishes greek) is grape leaves (dolmathes called. The grape leaves are stuffed with ground meat (lamb or beef) and rice and served with egg and lemon sauce.
To prepare this dish to serve three or four people, use about one poundVine leaves (cabbage leaves you can cook the cabbage until tender, then remove any leaves and stems of crop can be replaced). If vine leaves are used, blanched first to win it. Use about a pound of ground lamb or beef and half a cup of rice (long grain), (fusion extent, then), a half cup of butter, a cup of chopped canned tomatoes, juice, a cup and Half of hot water, two medium onions finely, two tablespoons of olive oil, two tablespoons of mint leaves orChopped parsley, salt and pepper. Mix the ingredients, except the leaves and water.
Then stuff the vine leaves one by one with the mixture. Fold the top and sides like an envelope, so that the filling remains in the leaves. Imagine all these stuffed leaves in rows in a pan or pot. Pour water on the roof to hold it in position) with heavy plate (heat resistant to it and a lid. Let simmer in the saucepan over a low heat for about an hour or untilthe rice is cooked.
Prepare the egg and lemon sauce, as mentioned above. But you might want three eggs instead of two. Please note that this gravy is less than the liquid in which meat and vegetables were made. To use the broth in which you cooked the stuffed grape leaves, but do not boil the sauce. You can determine the degree of acidity of the sauce by adjusting the amount of lemon juice. Then take the pot with the stuffed grape leaves and pour theEgg and lemon sauce. And your vine leaves are ready to be served.
What recipes for dishes from different cuisines Note cook greek, but the ingredients are basically the same. In fact, the Greek woman of the house rarely follows a recipe, but her cooking from memory and invention. Because the tomatoes, tomato paste, lemon, onion, garlic, olive oil and thyme, the majority of housewives greek can in every direction, with delicious culinary results.
