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You'll love these. Quick and simple starter or meze dish from Greece and Cyprus. The Greek name is Piperies yemistes me feta (Peppers stuffed with feta). These long horn peppers (kerata) are very popular for grilling at bbqs because they're sweet and have the great flavour of capsicums: they're not actually spicy hot, just like bell-peppers.
This is a vegetarian dream, the sweetness of the peppers works well with this tangy, salty cheese. Cooking time around 20 minutes so pop round to your local Greek grocer and get some horn peppers and feta and that's more or less what you need.
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Spinach pie is an excellent way to enjoy spinach, one of the healthiest of vegetables. Spinach contains vitamin C and is packed full of nutrients. I like it because it tastes great and I could eat it simply sauted with a drizzle of olive oil and lemon juice.
Here's a receipe for spinach pie, or spanakopita in Greek. Spanakopita is usally made into large pies that can be cut into slices to serving at lunch time or as an appetiser. Here's a spanakopita recipe which has a little twist. Individual mouth watering spinach puff pastries with a little bacon to create a super healthy savoury snack.
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 OK here's another eastern Mediterranean favorite: Papoutsakia (Little Shoes in Greece), Imam Bayildi (the Imam Fainted in Turkey), Sheikh el Mehshi (in Lebanon) or just plain stuffed aubergine (eggplant). This is more of a Greek recipe because i've reduced the amount of olive oil and use feta cheese as a topping.
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Spanakopita is spinach pie in Greece and is made with a spinach, egg and feta cheese filling. Here's a really tastey recipe that includes mushroom and bacon. There's no salt in this recipe: its not needed because of the feta and the bacon.
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 Ever wondered what one makes with okra? Here's an idea from the mediterranean. This is a Greek recipe for chicken with okra that can form a main course and be served with boiled vegetables or pasta.Its cooked in a yachni style meaning that it is cooked with a Greek style tomato sauce.
Okra is known as ladies fingers in the UK. In Greek its name derives from the Arabic bamyah. It was the Arabs who introduced the plant to the mediterranean from its original native land of Ethiopia.
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A simple and delicious dish made with feta cheese and tomato. You can serve this as a snack or as part of a meze.
Feta cheese is a salted brined curd cheese made from sheep and goat's milk in Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. I tend not to add salt to this dish as it is salty enough already.
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This is a similar receipe to feta baked with tomato. Try this variation if you want a slightly more substantial snack.
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 The Mediterranean diet is said to be the most healthy diet in the world and this may be one of the reasons. Benefits include longevity and healthier living. The basis for this is not just the reduced consumption of saturated fats which are more common in western European food but also the consumption of large amounts of fruits and vegetables.
Salads form a main component of every meal consumed in Cyprus and Greece. Here is a recipe for salata horiatiko - Greek Village Salad. I've used kalamata olives from Greece in this one. The cucumbers are the small gherkin type field cucumbers found in Cyprus which are usually harder and tastier than the long wide ones grown in greenhouses.
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