Typical Greek dishes served in a Mezedopoleio
Author: michael
10
Oct
- Dolmadakia (from Armenian dolma): grapevine leaves stuffed with rice and vegetables, meat is also often included.
- Fava: Yellow split pea puree or other bean purees; sometimes made of fava beans (called κουκκιά in Greek)
- Greek Salad: The so-called Greek Salad is known in Greece as Village/Country Salad (Horiatiki), essentially a tomato salad with cucumber, red onion, feta cheese, and kalamata olives, dressed with olive oil [in Cyprus it contains also cracked wheat (bulgur), spring onions instead of red onions and lemon juice].
- Horta: wild or cultivated greens, steamed or blanched and made into salad, simply dressed with lemon juice and olive oil. They can be eaten as a light meal with potatoes (especially during Lent, in lieu of fish or meat).
- Kolokythoanthoi: zucchini flowers stuffed with rice or cheese and herbs.
- Koukkia: fava beans.
- Lachanosalata: Cabbage Salad. Very finely shredded cabbage with salt, olive oil, lemon juice/vinegar dressing.
- Marides tiganites: Deep-fried whitebait, usually served with lemon wedges.
- Melitzanes, eggplants.
- Melitzanosalata: aubergine (eggplant) salad.
- Pantzarosalata: beetroot salad with olive oil and vinegar.
- Patatosalata: Potato salad with olive oil, finely sliced onions, lemon juice or vinegar.
- Saganaki: fried cheese; the word “saganaki” means a small cooking pan, is used to say “fried” and can be applied to many other foods.
- Skordalia: thick garlic and potato puree, usually accompanies deep fried fish/cod [bakaliaro me skordo, i.e. fried battered cod with garlic dip, being a very popular dish].
- Spanakopita: spinach, feta cheese (sometimes in combination with ricotta cheese), onions or spring onions, egg and seasoning wrapped in phyllo pastry.
- Taramosalata (from Turkish tarama, roe): fish roe mixed with boiled potatoes or moistened breadcrumbs, olive oil and lemon juice.
- Tzatziki (from Turkish cacık): yoghurt with cucumber and garlic puree, used as a dip.
- Tyropita: cheese (usually feta) wrapped in phyllo pastry.