Traditional and contemporary Greek holiday recipes, Greek Christmas recipes, Greek New Year’s Recipes
Tsoureki is the Greek Easter bread and it’s very similar to challah except it’s sweeter. But it goes stale fast. Here’s a wonderful way to serve up a delicious, elegant dessert if you have a loaf leftover. For 6 servings ½ kilo / 1 pound leftover tsoureki (Greek Easter bread) 3 large eggs,...
Vasilopita is a must-have for any Greek New Year’s celebration. It also makes the world’s BEST French toast, not to mention bread pudding. 2 teaspoons mahlepi* ½ cup of water 1 teaspoon mahlepi seeds 1 1/2 cups, plus 1tsp. sugar 1 tsp. mastic crystals* 2 cups / 440 ml milk 2 packets active dry...
Yield: 4 dozen Shapes: buttons, about 1 ½ in./ 4 cm in diameter; small oblong fingers, about 2 in./ 5 cm long; hearts; diamonds; crescents 8 oz./ 228 g blanched almonds 8 oz. / 225 g unsalted butter, at room temperature 2 large egg yolks 15 oz. / 440 g Confectioner’s sugar 1 tsp....
About 30 pieces 1 pound/500 g. very good quality unsalted butter (preferably sheep’s-milk butter) 2/3 cup extra-virgin Greek olive oil 10 cups coarsely chopped walnuts or blanched almonds, or a mixture of both 3 cups zwieback or other unsweetened biscuit crumbs, such as Greek frigania or Melba toasts 2 pounds/1 kilo commercial phyllo...
Traditional sweets like kourambiedes and melomakarona, the almond shortbread cookies and honey-walnut cookies, respectively, that are part of the Greek holiday table are among the specialties you will find in these pages, but so are contemporary holiday desserts, a few breads, and more. Remember, ring in the New Year with a Greek Vasilopita, St....
I never thought I would hear myself say this: The Greeks did it first! In this case, the “first” isn’t some scientific or philosophical or social eureka moment; it’s the very mundane but healthy tradition of baking with olive oil, even for holidays like Christmas, when, elsewhere in western cuisine, butter burrows in every...
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