Making dough from scratch is essential in Greek cuisine as we love making a lot of homemade pittes (pies). With this tutorial, you can learn how to make homemade dough easily ...
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Portokalopita (Orange Pie with Phyllo)
Portokalópita (from portokali = orange and pita = pie) is a traditional Greek sweet pie made with phyllo which encloses an orange pudding. Although I had heard of this ...
The Best Chocolate Honey Baklavas Tart
Baklavas is one of the best Greek desserts, which is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo, filled with chopped nuts with spices among the layers and ...
Crispy Phyllo Wrapped Feta
As I said in my previous post, the second week of the carnival is called "Tyrini" (from the word cheese), where only dairy products are allowed to be eaten. However, most people ...
Video with easy way to roll out Phyllo and make Kotopita (Chicken Galette)
Kotopita, which means chicken pie, is one of many types of Greek meat pites. This particular meat pie is made with chicken and shaped into a galette. This particular pie is ...
Bougatsa (Phyllo Pastry with sweet cream) and Nistisimi Bougatsa (vegan)
Bougatsa is a Greek pastry filled either with a semolina custard, cheese or minced meat. Bougatsa has its origins from the Byzantine period (before the fall of the city in 1453), ...
We celebrated Christmas today!!
Hope you all had lovely Holidays. I cannot say the same, as we had to spend a whole day in hospital on Wednesday, after my son had a stomach virus and then on Christmas day my ...
Agginaropita Me Prassa (Greek Artichoke & Leek Galette)
This month's Tried & Tested is featuring Kevin of Closet Cooking. This event was an original idea by Zlamushka of Spicy Kitchen. Each month a blogger is featured and we have to ...
Kolokythopita (Greek Savory Pumpkin Pie)
Kolokythopita (pronounced koh-loh-kee-THOH-pee-tah) in Greek Κολοκυθόπιτα is a compound word from "kolokythi" (squash) and pita (pie). This Greek savory pie is made with butternut ...
Tyropita me Maratho and Marathopitakia
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. ...
