Vegetables

Tyropita me Maratho means cheese pie with wild fennel.  This is a traditional cheese pie, which my mother in law used to make with feta cheese and fennel.    

This vegan moussakas (nistisimos) is as delicious as the real one. It is layered with eggplants, potatoes and zucchini, with a vegan vegetable filling and a delicious vegan faux bechamel sauce.

Pastitsio nistisimo (pr. Pah-STEE-tsio Knee-STEE-see-moh) is a vegan pasta casserole dish made with tubular pasta, vegetable filling and topped with a vegan faux béchamel sauce.  The same dish can be made vegetarian using the same filling but adding a real bechamel sauce on top.

Pantzaria Xydata (pronounced pan-TZAh-rhia Ksee-DAH-tah) are beets preserved in vinegar, which are one of our favourite vegetables to preserve.

Arakas laderos is a Greek, vegan or Lenten dish, with peas, carrots, potatoes and herbs cooked, in a rich olive oil-tomato sauce. 

Kluski z Kapusta is a traditional Polish dish with cabbage and pasta.  I made a few tweaks of my own, adding Greek ingredients.

A colorful and savoury Festive Cypriot rice pilaf with vermicelli pasta, pine nuts and raisins.

Celeriac is a root vegetable which looks strange and peculiar, somewhat ugly and repulsive but with a lot of health benefits.

Spanakoryzo also written spanakorizo, pronounced spah-nah-KOH-reeh-zoh, is a traditional healthy and delicious Greek vegan dish, made with spinach and rice.

Briam is a Greek delicious and healthy roasted vegetables dish made with potatoes, carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, onion, garlic and extra virgin olive oil.