Chicken or turkey

Kotopoulo Kokkinisto is a Greek stewed chicken dish which is cooked in a delicious tomato sauce with all the Greek flavours.

Chicken soup avgolemono was one of the soups my mother would make for us whenever we had a cold and it always did its trick.

This recipe I made is not the classic Avgolemono Soup as I have enriched it with more vitamins and nutrients by adding some carrots, celery, a potato and an onion.

Have you ever wondered why chicken soup is good for you when you have a cold?

Chicken with Leeks is a very simple but delicious and light dish which can be whipped up in no time made with Greek yoghurt and pesto which makes a very creamy sauce.  

Sykotakia  me Lahanika (pr. see-koh-TAH-khia meh Lah-chah-knee-KHA) are braised chicken livers with vegetables.  This easy and nutricious recipe is made with chicken livers, vegetables, rice, nuts and poached grapes.

Indian style chicken curry includes a variety of aromatic spices simmered in a coconut milk-based sauce and served with rice.

Kotopoulo me hilopites is a Greek dish with baked chicken in tomato sauce and then hylopites, egg noodles, are cooked in the sauce.

Agioritiki Tigania is a mixture of fried meat in a wine sauce. The name of this dish is named after Mount Athos, which in Greek is Aghion Oros. I don’t know if the monks in Agion Oros prepare this dish but it is a very good mezes.

Thyme Chicken Fricassee is a dish made with chicken breast cut into thin slices, stewed in chicken stock and served in a white sauce made with milk or cream.

Wiener Schnitzel or scallopini, as they are called in Italy or escalopes in France, consist of thinly sliced meat cutlets, usually veal or pork, although chicken may also be used.  

If we buy a whole chicken from the butcher we have to wash and clean the chicken. We then have to remove any visible feather roots and the remaining, which cannot be removed, we burn them off.