Recipes

Appetizers

Baked feta cheese with oregano
Feta cheese
Oregano
Olive oil

Cut pieces of aluminum foil and place on each of them a piece of feta cheese (not too thick). Dredge oregano over the feta cheese, add some drops of olive oil and fold the aluminum pieces. Bake in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes.

Fish roe salad
125 gr fish roe
4 slices stale bread
1 medium onion (optional)
lemon juice
parsley
150 gr olive oil

Remove crusts from bread, soak and drain it. Place the fish roe and the onion (chopped) in a mixer and beat well. Add gradually the lemon juice, the bread and the olive oil and continue beating the mixture until it becomes soft and creamy. Serve in a bowl and garnish with parsley.

Fried zucchini
Some zucchini
salt
olive oil
flour

Wash the courgettes and cut them into thin slices of 1 cm wide. Salt them and dip them in the flour. Fry them in hot oil. Let them drain afterwards using an absorbing kitchen towel.

Stuffed tomatoes with octopus and rice
8 medium size tomatoes
1 kg octopus, cut in very small pieces
1 onion, finely chopped
4 potatoes, cut in small pieces
1 tea cup rice
2 spoons tomato paste
3 chestnuts, cut in small pieces
Some pine seeds
Pinch of cinnamon
olive oil
Salt
Pepper

Slice-off the top of the tomatoes. Use a spoon to remove their inside part. Try to leave the empty tomatoes as thin as possible but be careful not to score their skin. Save the inside part of the tomatoes. It will be used for the stuffing. Salt and pepper the inner part of the empty tomatoes and place the tomatoes in a baking pan. Surround them with the potatoes. Prepare the stuffing as follows. Heat olive oil in a large pan and saute the onions with the octopus pieces. Add the tomato you have preserved, tomato paste, chestnuts, pine seeds, cinnamon, rice and salt and pepper for taste. Stir well and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat and start stuffing the tomatoes with a small spoon. Do not overstuff because the rice will gain more space during baking and the stuffing might overflow. Add plenty of olive oil into the baking pan and bake in 200 C for 1 hour without adding any water during baking.