Greek Chicken and Potatoes
This Greek chicken and potatoes is a one pan meal with marinated garlic and herb chicken and tender potatoes, all roasted to golden brown perfection. A super easy dinner for a busy weeknight.
Skillet Pastitsio
Every Greek cookbook has a recipe for pastitsio, a layered casserole consisting of ground meat, tomato sauce, pasta, a creamy béchamel, and a sprinkling of cheese. When well prepared, it is comfort food at its best.We began our pastitsio recipe by cooking ground lamb and draining the excess fat before adding the other ingredients, […]
Sautéed Spinach with Pine Nuts and Feta
This is a great fresh and healthy dish. The toasty pine nuts add a nice crunch and rounds out the texture of the cooked spinach and the lemon really brightens the flavor. It’s a quick and easy side dish to almost anything.
Greek Meatballs with Tomato Sauce (Soutzoukakia)
Known as soutzoukakia, these cigar-shaped meatballs are seasoned with cumin and garlic, then simmered in tomato sauce. The dish has origins in Smyrna, a former Greek settlement and now the Turkish city of Izmir on the Aegean coast. Our recipe is based on the soutzoukakia we learned from Alexandra Manousakis and Afshin Molavi of Manousakis […]
Greek Orzo with Lemon and Herbs
This Greek Orzo with Lemon and Herbs makes a great side dish for fish, chicken, steak, lamb or shellfish. You can even serve this with roasted vegetables to keep it vegetarian. It is quick to cook and packed with flavor. In under 15 minutes, you can have this fresh and delicious pasta side dish ready […]
Greek Baked Vegetables (Briam)
The Greek baked vegetable dish known as briam is an example of lathera (also spelled ladera)—vegetable-centric dishes that feature a generous amount of olive oil (lath in Greek). In briam, potatoes give the dish weight and substance, but it’s the summer produce—such as zucchini, tomatoes, garlic, and herbs—that are the main attraction. Because potatoes take […]
Greek-Style Baked White Beans in Tomato Sauce (Gigantes Plaki)
Gigantes plaki, or Gigante beans baked in tomato sauce, is a Greek classic. The delicious version we tasted at Manousakis Winery on the island of Crete had us eager to re-create the dish ourselves. But we quickly learned that dried Gigante beans, a type of large, white runner bean—they are not lima beans, contrary to […]
Greek Style Lentil Rice Pilaf (Pilafi me Fakes)
This dish is made in some form all over Greece. This version of it is perfumed with spices such as coriander, cinnamon, and allspice. This is perfect to serve as the main course for a light meal or as a side dish.
Chicken Kapama
I have my mother and aunt to thank not only for feeding chicken kapama to me as a child but also for teaching me how to make their grandmother’s recipe. It’s a simple dish, but somehow nothing smells better than cinnamon sticks in melting butter, and every time I make it, I think of the […]
Creamy Baked Feta Pasta
Baked Feta pasta is a brilliant way to create pasta sauce. You bake a block of feta in a casserole dish together with tomatoes, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, and a little salt and pepper. Once the tomatoes burst and cheese starts melting, you pull it out of the oven and mash the cheese […]
Greek-American Lamb Gyros
Greek-American gyros employ the same vertical rotisserie method of cooking as authentic Greek gyros, and both come served in rich, fluffy pita bread with a yogurt-based sauce, tomatoes, and onions, but that's where the similarities end. Unlike Greek gyros, which are usually made with whole pieces of thinly-sliced marinated pork skewered in a large […]
Greek Spinach and Feta Pie (Spanakopita)
Microwaving, chopping, and then ridding mature fresh spinach of excess water gave our spanakopita recipe bold spinach flavor. To buffer the assertiveness of feta and to add textural contrast, we added Greek yogurt to the spanakopita recipe. We chose to bake our spanakopita on a baking sheet. Its sides were short enough to allow […]
Greek Marinated Chicken
This Greek Marinated Chicken is EASY and hands down the most flavorful and juiciest chicken recipe I’ve ever tasted! Only 5 minutes to prep! Full of Greek flavors like oregano, garlic, parsley and lemon, this dish screams flavor! The secret to this chicken dish is in the marinade!