Phyllo pastry rolls with chicken and eggs

Tasty little chicken rolls with crunchy phyllo pastry. A delicious idea for the leftover Easter eggs!

Lamb "kapamas" with potatoes for Easter Sunday

This is not the most common way of having the Easter lamb but it is a nice alternative for those who would like to have something different than the classic recipes. With the term "Kapamas" we mean the meat dish (traditionally lamb, goat or beef but it can also be found with chicken) cooked in a pot in low heat and always covered with the lid while cooking and where the vegetables are added later on. "Kapamas" is nothing more than the turkish term of what the Greeks mean by ".... in the pot" and stayed with us thanks to the Greeks of Asia Minor. There are people though who object saying that "kapamas" is indeed slowly cooked but with the pot uncovered... I'd love to find out which of the two ways of cooking is the correct one but in the end of the day what really matters is the delicious taste of such kind of recipes. Ideal dish for big families or when we have guests around since we don't need to cook a separate side dish. You could even cook the meat the day before and add the vegetables in the pot the next day. The unusual stage of the specific version of the dish is that, although it is cooked with tomato, you can also add an egg & lemon sauce in the pot in the end of the cooking ("avgolemono")

Potato salad with Easter eggs

This is an easy, filling and soooo tasty potato salad, one of my favourites! It is, of course, an all year round salad but usually plenty of dyed Easter eggs are left in the fridge and this recipe is a good idea to use them up. It can be served at room temperature or even cold

No-oil mixed green salad for Good Friday

One more recipe for those who follow the Holy Week fasting to the letter and they don't eat any oil. A refreshing and quite filling salad with plenty of vegetables and herbs. The dressing, even without any oil in, is very tasty and helps the vegetables to free their aroma and flavour
 

 

Cheese pie with leftover Easter eggs

An unusual but delicious and easy to prepare cheese pie. Many times it happens to be left with Easter eggs because always we dye many more than we really need during the Easter feast. The truth is that we love eggs and I always have the feeling that Easter eggs taste much better than the usual boiled eggs from the rest of the year... Funny, isn't it? Maybe it is the excitment I always have this time of the year because Easter is my favourite Holiday and everything looks and tastes better than usual!! There are so many recipes somebody can come up with when there are some leftover Easter eggs. Various salads, fast meze dishes and now a nice cheese pie which I hope you will enjoy as much as we have if you try it out

Melitinia - An Easter soft cheese and pastry sweet

Melitinia is a traditional sweet from Santorini Island. They make them for all big occasions like weddings etc and also in Easter time. They prepare them during the Holy Week so to be ready on time. There is a similar recipe in Crete, the well known "lychnarakia" or "kaltsounia", but the ingredients in the pastry and in the filling vary a bit. Elsewhere in Greece you can find them with the name "lyhnarakia" and again the recipe is a bit different. It is a rather tricky recipe thanks to the shape the pastry has to have before you add the filling but they are delicious. Those of you who like a challenge don't hesitate to try them out

Pasta with oil-free vegetable sauce

Oil-free cooking this week for those Greeks who don't want to spoil the tradition of fasting and here is one of many recipes somebody could cook and still enjoy a filling meal with great taste
 

 

Baked cod fillets with chickpeas in tomato sauce

Palm Sunday today and most households around the country cook fish. After the 25th of March this is the second break that fish is allowed to be eaten during the Lent period. Cod is the most popular fish for the day and it can be cooked in so many different ways. This is a classic way of cooking fish in the oven and a delicious dish to enjoy regardless the season. You can use fresh or frozen cod fillets or preferably the salted cod which, though, you'd have to leave in water for a couple of days before cooking and change the water frequently

Steamed mussels with multi-coloured peppers

Delicious and easy recipe which, if you are sea-food lovers, you will cook again and again! Ideal also for those who fast this time of the year

Octopus salad with mixed vegetables and olives

Rich, colourful, delicious and easy to put together, this salad will satisfy your appetite to the full! Nice during Lent for those who fast but at the same time a tasty sea-food salad for everybody and for all seasons to enjoy with some chilled wine