Greek Cypriot recipes and other family food inspirations
The babaganoush dip is made using smoked eggplants. If you love a flavour packed dip with a smoky after taste then this is the dip for you! Living in Australia we are so lucky to be exposed to so many different cuisines at numerous restaurants …
This rice pilaf is my aunty’s go to side dish at dinner parties. It makes rice all the more interesting very quickly and a tiny bit more festive I reckon. I was always curious to learn how she got the thin pasta so brown but …
Avgolemoni – the soup to cure it all Avgolemoni is one of the most popular Greek soups. It is very high up the list together with lentil soup, youvarlakia with avgolemono (meatball soup) and psarosoupa (fish soup). The name essentially translates to “egg and lemon”. …
Coconut rice pudding where have been all my life? This is such a creamy and flavoursome dessert that all the family will love! I started playing around with different ingredients and measurements for this recipe during lent. I was craving for something sweet and in particular …
Lentils and halloumi – crunchy and chewy I am forever creating new salad combinations using ingredients I love and this lentils and halloumi salad is no different! It is the perfect salad if you like eating salads with different textures and a sour/tangy dressing …
Sesame crusted salmon – the new prawn toast! Salmon is one of the type of fish that we often have for dinner as it is so quick to cook and has great nutritional benefits. It is quite an oily fish so you don’t need …
Kolokasi – Cypriot comfort food This taro stew or better known as kolokasi is the ultimate Cypriot comfort dish, a meal made with taro and pork in a tomato based sauce.The pork can be easily substituted with chicken, I usually use skinless chicken cutlets if …
Quick, sweet and delicious This purple sweet potato crumble was one of my ultimate accidental recipe discoveries. The purple sweet potato actually has a white skin. Hence, for the purpose of this post I will refer to it as purple sweet potato rather than …
