
 Kalamata / Greece: Greek recipies with olive oil. Imports of greek olive oil, importations of greek olive oil. |
12 delicious traditional dishes.
Select recipe from the list below:
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("Papara" – dipping the bread in olive oil. One of the most common practices in Greece.)
Preparation time 10 min.
Ingredients
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 1 cucumber
- Half a green pepper
- Few black olives
- Salt
- Oregano
- 4 tbsp of EPIC® x/v olive oil
- Feta cheese
- 1 tbsp of balsamic vinegar
Directions
- Cut the vegetables.
- Put them in a salad bowl add olives and cheese on top.
- Pour EPIC® x/v olive oil and vinegar, sprinkle with salt and oregano.
- Dip the bread in olive oil and enjoy the salad.
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Preparation time 10 min.
Ingredients
- Half a kilo of yoghurt (solid)
- 4 tbsp of EPIC® x/v olive oil
- 1 tbsp of balsamic vinegar
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 1 cucumber
- Parsley
- Fresh black olives
- Salt
- Pepper
Directions
- Put yoghurt in a big salad bowl.
- Wash and wipe dry cucumber, grate on a coarse grater with peel still on (optional). Squeeze away all juice.
- Squash the garlic with salt and pepper then add vinegar, olive oil and mix it well with yoghurt.
- Decorate with olives and parsley and a bit of olive oil.
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Preparation time 15 min.
Ingredients
- 200g of fish roe (red or white)
- Half an onion
- Half a cup of lemon juice
- 0.5kg of bread crumbs
- EPIC® x/v olive oil
- Black olives
Directions
- Mix all the ingredients in blender until it becomes creamy adding olive oil slowly.
- Decorate with olives and olive oil.
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Time of cooking 20 min.
Ingredients
- 4-5 potatoes
- 4-5 carrots
- 2 onions (cut them in a ring shape)
- 1tbsp of capers
- 1tbsp of mustard
- Fresh dill
- 4 tbsp of lemon juice
- 4 tbsp of balsamic vinegar
- 8 tbsp of EPIC® x/v olive oil
- Salt
- Oregano
Directions
- Chop and boil the carrots and potatoes.
- Remove the water add capers, dill, onion rings.
- Use a shaker to mix olive oil, lemon juice, vinegar, mustard, salt and oregano and then pour the mixture on top of the potatoes.
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(Skordalia – famous Greek dip)
Preparation time 30 min.
Ingredients
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 5 potatoes
- 4 tbsp of EPIC® olive oil
- 2 tbsp of lemon juice
Directions
- Wash the potatoes and boil them with the skins in salted water.
- Remove the potatoes and let them cool.
- Remove their skin, mash or put in blender
- Add the rest ingredients and serve cool.
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(Wonderful filling Cretan snack any time, especially light for late suppers. Very healthy!)
Preparation time 5 min.
Ingredients
- 1 big piece of barley rusk
- 1 tomato
- 100g of feta cheese
- EPIC® x/v olive oil
- Salt
- Oregano
Directions
- Sprinkle rusk well with water to soften.
- Grate the tomato and place it on top of rusk.
- Sprinkle with salt add grated feta and some olive oil with oregano on top.
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Time of cooking 1.5 hour
Ingredients
- 1kg of baking flour
- 1tbsp of yeast
- 1tsp of sugar
- 1.5 tsp of salt
- 1 tbsp of balsamic vinegar
- 4 tbsp of EPIC® x/v olive oil
- 400ml of warm water
- 150g of black olives
Directions
- Mix all the ingredients except olives.
- Knead the mixture very well and leave the dough to rise in the oven or warm place (30ºC) until it doubles its size.
- Then re-knead and add olives with a bit of olive oil.
- Put the dough on a baking tray and for the decoration cut the top with a knife and add some olives. Place the tray in the oven (100ºC) for 15min and then raise the temperature to 200ºC for about an hour.
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Serving 4
Time of cooking 30 min.
Ingredients
- 1.5 kg fresh green beans
- 1 onion
- 100 ml of EPIC® x/v olive oil
- 400g of chopped plum tomatoes
- Half a sweet red pepper
- Half a green pepper
- 1 chopped carrot
- Half a cup of parsley
- 2 chopped potatoes
- Salt
- Pepper
Directions
- Put the olive oil in the steamer.
- Add onions, parsley, peppers and the carrot on to a medium heat for about 2-4 minutes.
- Add tomatoes and raise the heat to max. temp. and boil for about 5 min.
- Add beans and potatoes and cook it until they are to you licking "al dente" or soft.
- Finally add half a glass of water, salt and pepper and close the lid of the steamer. Cook on a medium heat for about 15 more minutes.
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Serving 1
Time of cooking 15min.
Ingredients
- 500g of pasta
- 4 tbsp of EPIC® x/v olive oil
- Grated cheese
- Salt
Directions
- Boil pasta in salty water.
- Drain immediately, drain off all water.
- Warm olive oil for about 3min (until gently smoking) then pour it on pasta and sprinkle with grated cheese.
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Serving 4
Time of cooking 10 min.
Ingredients
- 300g of tuna (fresh or tinned in water)
- 2 onions
- 1 can of tomato puree
- 2 chopped fresh tomatoes
- 4 tbsp of EPIC® x/v olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
- Basil
- Grated cheese
Directions
- Chop the onion and basil.
- Warm up the olive oil in the saucepan.
- Cook the onion until golden then add the tuna.
- Leave it for one minute and then put the chopped tomatoes and puree.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper and add basil and a bit of water.
- Serve 10 minutes later with any kind of pasta with grated cheese on top.
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Serving 5
Time of cooking 1.5 hours
Ingredients
- 500g of giant white beans
- 1 onion
- 10 cloves of garlic (chopped)
- Parsley
- 300ml of tomato juice
- 4 tbsp of EPIC® x/v olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
Directions
- Soak beans in cold water preferably overnight.
- Boil for 15 min then place them on a baking tray and add the rest of ingredients.
- Cook for 50 min in preheated oven 200ºC.
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Serving 4
Time of cooking 1.5 hours
Ingredients
- 8 tomatoes
- 2 green peppers
- 2 aubergines
- 3 potatoes
- 1 onion
- 3 cloves of garlic
- Parsley
- Salt
- Pepper
- 4 tbsp of EPIC® x/v olive oil
- 550g of rice (parboiled, long grain, American type)
Directions
- Carefully cut the top of tomatoes, aubergines and peppers to slice off like a lid.
- Remove the inside of tomatoes, aubergines and peppers.
- Chop what you have removed from all the vegetables, very well and put it in the sauce pan with 2tbsp of olive oil, chopped onion, salt and pepper.
- Bring it to boil, stirring it well to achieve creamy mixture and add parsley.
- Take off the heat add the rice, mix it very well and stuff each vegetable with this mixture.
- Place the stuffed vegetables on a baking tray and then add chopped potatoes with 2tbs of olive oil and a little water.
- Cover with tinfoil and bake for 30 min in preheated oven 220ºC.
- Remove the tinfoil afterwards and bake for another 45 min.
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