Galaktoboureko, is a semolina custard dessert, baked between phyllo dough, then drenched in a scented syrup when finished.
Creams-puddings
These baked peaches with butter, honey and cinnamon are so easy to make as it only needs takes five minutes to prepare them and fifteen minutes to bake them. The addition of butter, honey and cinnamon makes a caramelized syrup to serve them with.
Galatopita, (pr. Gha-lah-TOH-pee-tah) is a simple and easy Greek dessert, made with milk,eggs, semolina, butter and vanilla, which is baked in the oven.
This recipe started when I attempted to make mozarella cheese and failed! It’s not the first time that amazing recipes are created after an unsuccessful attempt to make something else. Technically this is not the traditional panna cotta made with full fat cream but a much lighter version made with two kinds of milk and …
Pannacotta is an Italian dessert made with heavy cream. “Panna” means cream and and “cotta” means cooked. In panna cotta heavy cream is sweetened with sugar and thickened with gelatine.
This delicious caramelized rice pudding recipe is not the usual Greek rice pudding (ryzogalo). The classic dessert is made in a completely different way resulting in a decadent new dessert.
Ekmek Kataifi is a delicious Greek dessert with shredded phyllo and nuts, bathed in syrup topped with pastry cream and whipped cream.
Cheesecake is one of our favourite desserts but being on the Mediterranean Diet, for a few months now, I didn’t want to make something loaded with calories so I adapted an older recipe and made this “no guilt” Apricot Cheesecake.
Eating healthily according to the Mediterranean Diet, does not mean depriving yourself of all treats! If you want to eat a dessert every now and then, just be smart about what you eat. All the ingredients I used to make this cream is low fat. I used low fat cream, low fat Greek yoghurt and …
Mahalebi is a cream we make in Cyprus like pudding. The traditional way of flavouring this cream is with rose water, rose syrup and orange blossom water. Back at home my mom served it with spoon sweets and a little syrup on top and my favourite would be with bitter orange spoon sweet. For a …