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Squash soup
Ingredients:
1 kg pumpkin, cut into small cubes, approximately 5 cups
2 medium (400g) sweet potatoes, cut into cubes, approximately 2 ½ cups
1 chopped leek, only...
Mezedes
No visit to Cyprus is complete without enjoying the traditional meal of many small dishes known as ‘meze’.
This large feast, which has been a...
Prawns with fried cheese, barley shaped pasta
Put the barley shaped pasta into a small pan with salted water, bring to a boil and when tender, drain. Peal the prawns leaving...
Salmon and shrimp sheftalies
Mix all ingredients for tabbouli in a bowl and keep to one side so flavours can combine.
Prepare the sheftalies: wash and soak the casing...
Sheftalies
Sheftalies, a very tasty dish from the charcoal grill, are minced meat shaped into small sausages and wrapped in “panna” (suet). Panna is a...
Spicy grilled soutzoukakia
Place all ingredients for soutzoukakia in a bowl and mix well, preferably using a food processor, until well combined. Using the mixture, form cigar-shaped...
Souvlakia
Pork souvlaki: Put the meat and all the other ingredients in a bowl (not metal) and mix well. Cover the bowl and keep in...
Pastelli (Carob Toffee)
The nutritional sweet of Pastelli is made with the syrup of carob pods, produced by boiling their pulp until it forms a thick, sticky...
Meatballs with tomato and cumin
Place all meatball ingredients in a bowl and knead well with hands. Keep the mixture in the fridge for approximately 1 hour to thicken.
In...
Crushed wheat pilaf with sausages and halloumi
Ingredients:
1 cup bulgar wheat
¼ of the cup vermicelli noodles or spaghetti, broken into small pieces
1 onion
2 sausages
1 cup tomato juice
1 vegetable stock cube
1/3 ts...
Swordfish with aubergines
To toast the sesame seeds: place sesame seeds in a small non-stick frying pan over low heat and stir until you begin to smell...
Chicken with okra and bulgur wheat
Heat the oil in a pan and sauté the okra until golden. Remove the okra, lay out in an oven tray and sprinkle with...
Ravioli
Just a little before serving, heat the broth and add the ravioli. (If the ravioli is frozen you don’t have to defrost). Heat them...
Seafood kebab with avocado salad
Place the mussels, shrimps and salmon in a bowl together with tarragon and lemon zest. Season and cover, keeping in the fridge for 15...
Marinated beef souvlaki
Ingredients:
1 kg beef steak (fillet or rib-eye), cut into cubes (slightly larger than pork)
1 red + 1 yellow + 1 green pepper cut into...
Quinoa burgers with beans and halloumi
Ingredients
1 cup red quinoa
1 cup cannellini beans, cooked and mashed
1 cup halloumi, grated
½ cup gruyere cheese, grated
1 spring onion, chopped
2 eggs, beaten
2 tablespoons fresh...
Lasagne with anari and spinach
Ingredients:
18 lasagne noodles
1 kg (3 bunches) spinach, the leaves only, without the stems, well rinsed
400 g fresh anari
45 g (3 teaspoons) soft butter
50 g...
Gigandes beans with feta
Ingredients:
400g (About 2 ½ cups) gigantes beans
1 big onion, finely chopped
5 sprigs of celery, finely chopped1 clove of garlic in slices
1 teaspoon tomato pancake2...
Blueberry marmalade
By Andreas Kavazis
Ingredients
1 kg of blueberries
1 kg of sugar
1 teaspoon of grated ginger
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
Method
Step 1:
Put the blueberries...
Caprese salad with halloumi
Ingredients:
3 vine-ripened tomatoes, cored
1 halloumi (round shape)
7-8 green olives stuffed with almond or pepper paste
15 basil leaves, torn or cut into thin strips
1 tsp...
Spinach pie
Ingredients:
For the filling:
3 bunches spinach
1/2 kilo fresh, unsalted anari cheese
1/2 cup feta cheese
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 bunch green onions, chopped
1/2...
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Squash soup
Ingredients:
1 kg pumpkin, cut into small cubes, approximately 5 cups
2 medium (400g) sweet potatoes, cut into cubes, approximately 2 ½ cups
1 chopped leek, only...
Local Food
Mezedes
No visit to Cyprus is complete without enjoying the traditional meal of many small dishes known as ‘meze’.
This large feast, which has been a...
Local Food
Prawns with fried cheese, barley shaped pasta
Put the barley shaped pasta into a small pan with salted water, bring to a boil and when tender, drain. Peal the prawns leaving...
Local Food
Salmon and shrimp sheftalies
Mix all ingredients for tabbouli in a bowl and keep to one side so flavours can combine.
Prepare the sheftalies: wash and soak the casing...