A majestic dinner meal worthy to be displayed as the centrepiece dish on your dinner table. Snapper is steam baked cradled on a bed of herbs. Sealed, to lock in all the moisture and flavours you have added the result being a tender, moist and flavoursome seafood dish. Garlic, olive oil, lemon thyme and lemon…
Honey Puffs | Greek Donuts | λουκουμαδες
Greek honey puffs (λουκουμαδες) served in a delicate rose-water scented honey syrup – endowed with a golden, crispy shell, and an irresistible spongy, super-airy inner-casing. You can choose to drizzle with the rosewater honey syrup or sprinkle with cinnamon and crushed walnuts or perhaps dust with icing sugar. You could even dust with a…
cheese pastries or feta mint kalitsounia with lemon thyme
Try to stop eating just one of these little cheese hand pies otherwise known as kalitsounia with feta mint and lemon thyme. These delicious little cheese pastries originate from the Island of Crete – in Greece and are made during Easter. Of course, there is no rule that says you can only make them at…
tuna and chickpea patties – vegan and without potato
Tasty vegan, egg-free, and gluten-free tuna patties. Tuna patties, tuna burgers, tuna cakes or fish cakes whatever you prefer to call them they are easy to make, delicious and a great healthy low carb meal. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself regularly making them, as they taste wonderful. Fabulous for lunch, or make smaller…
Vegan Spelt Cranberry and Pistachio Biscotti | Greek paximadia
This is a quick and easy to make butter-free, vegan biscotti, made with the addition of cranberries and piatachios. You don’t have to dip this type of biscotti in coffee tea or milk but it’s certainly tastes amazing if you do. This is a Greek version of biscotti made without any butter as well contains…
Gluten-free chocolate sweet potato biscuits
A moist and tasty biscuit or breakfast cookie made with healthy wheat-free lentil and almond-flour. The addition of sweet potato puree makes these biscuits extra tender and lightly sweet. Our chocolate sweet potato biscuits make a great guilt-free snack or breakfast cookie loaded with taste and goodness. What else does one need? We have added…
Baked Eggs Shakshuka with tomato sauce and beans
Baked eggs Shakshuka with tomato sauce and beans make for a bright and spicy start to the day with simple, healthy ingredients. Can be eaten with a slice of your favourite bread or on its own. This middle-eastern inspired dish of baked eggs, hearty tomato sauce and made as a complete filling meal with the…
How to Make a Traditional Hortopita, Greek Spinach Pie | Horiatiki Spanakopita
This recipe is a true Horiatiki Hortopita – A Greek Traditional Spanakopita, how the women from my village make it. Hortopita is a Greek Spinach pie made with traditional homemade phyllo loaded with various greens like silverbeet & herbs. A true Horiatiki Spanakopita. Travel off the beaten track where the roads wind perilously deep in…
Spanakopita Recipe for Beginners | a healthy recipe big on Flavour
Spanakopita is a popular greek savoury pie of primarily spinach, herbs and feta cheese encased in sheets of phyllo dough. This recipe has been adapted to use commercial phyllo dough that you can find at your supermarket. It is easy, healthy and big on that Mediterranean flavour. I made this recipe for my non-greek followers…
Warm roast pumpkin quinoa & lentil salad
You don’t need to be vegetarian to enjoy this warm roast pumpkin, quinoa and lentil salad. This colourful warm salad is perfect for those autumn days where the days are slowly becoming a little shorter, and the air a little cooler. Enjoying salads in the cooler weather is even more important as they are loaded…
Healthy Grilled Eggplant Layered and Stacked with Herbed Ground Beef | A Quick mid-week meal
Stacks of succulent grilled eggplant are layered with a tasty herb loaded Ground Beef & tomato sauce to make a hearty, decadent and healthy meal. The eggplant absorbs the middle-eastern inspired sauce infused with herbs and spices. If you haven’t had grilled eggplant before, when prepared right it is crispy brown on the outside and…
