Family Recipes

If you are looking for ideas for delicious and healthy supper, then Greek  cuisine is what you need.  For Greeks, to eat means to socialize, not just satisfy hunger. So, when we start preparing our famous Souvlaki, chicken breast or soup recipes, we’re always thinking about people who will eat them.

Appetizers (‘Mezethes’) are a major part of the Greek diet. In fact, no healthy evening meal idea goes without appetizers, because it’s very good for digestion. Most important: if you eat an appetizer first, you will not overeat your main meals. In general, ‘Mezethes’ represent a set of small plates of olives, feta cheese, sliced cucumbers, and fried cheese (‘Saganake’). You may also see there stuffed vine leaves (‘Dolmathes’), cheese pies (‘Tiropita’), and spinach pies (‘Spanakopita’). Octopus is our traditional food too. It can be baked, grilled or pickled. This see product participates in many of healthy menu ideas for lunch and dinner. 

Another key point is that appetizers go together with a variety of Greek dips. Usually, dips and sauces include some olive oil, lemon and oregano marinade. They combine just perfectly with our chicken breast recipes. 

Greece produces some of the world’s finest olives. Kalamata olives are our favorite, by the way. You can spot them in many Greek recipes. We love adding olives in our legume dishes, and even chicken breast soups. For the most part, Greek cooks use either Kalamata virgin or Extra Virgin Olive Oil varieties. 

Fresh crusty bread is often served with salads, so you can soak up the herbed, oil and vinegar dressing. Feel free to do the same thing when it comes to soup recipes. After all, Greek bread accompanies every meal. You will definitely love our ‘Prosforo’, ‘Lagana‘, ‘Kathari Deftera‘, and ‘Christopsomo‘ bread. 

Feta cheese is the most famous Greek cheese made from goat or sheep’s milk. It’s truly hard to find healthy dinner ideas which do not include cheese.

Greeks eat vegetable dishes all year round. Our traditional soup recipes always contain vegetables. Especially, fresh beans, dried legumes, eggplant, zucchini, and artichokes are very popular. They taste very good in many of chicken breast recipes. We also love rice. In fact, we often cook rice and spinach pilaf. Therefore, you can find out that rice is a quite frequent ingredient in Greek soup recipes. 

In Greece, we eat salads every day. For example, ‘Horiatiki’ salad consists of tomatoes, cucumbers, ‘Feta’ cheese, olives, and onion. We dress it with some Extra Virgin Olive Oil, balsamic vinegar and oregano. As a result, it is very hard to resist. Surely, you’ll admit that salads are the best healthy ideas for dinner.

Greek fish & seafood dishes include a variety of fish like red mullet, sardines, snapper, and octopus. We cook this food in many ways: boiled, fried, baked, grilled and barbecued. Nowadays, Mediterranean seafood soup recipes are cornerstones of healthy supper ideas.

Meat & poultry dishes are made from beef, lamb, pork, goat and rabbit. Generally speaking, various kind of meat broth is a base for many Greek soup recipes. We love casseroles and stews, as well as grilled, barbecued and skewered meats (‘Souvlaki’). For example, ‘Lamb on the spit’ is a popular food for a special occasion. You can cook it if you run out of your healthy dinner thoughts. At the present time, many of us strive for better living in general. For this reason, the quality of food becomes important. Therefore, Greek chicken breast recipes are cooked on a daily basis because of their nutritional facts.

Greeks make sweets with filo pastry, nuts, honey, and cinnamon. ‘Baclava’, ‘Galaktobouriko‘, and ‘Karithopita‘ are some of our well-known traditional sweets. Well, a little bit of Greek sweets will not corrupt your healthy evening meals ideas.

‘Retsina‘ is a Greek wine with a strong flavour. Ouzo is a semi-clear spirit served with appetizers like grilled octopus. Tsipouro is home-made moonshine from the remainder of the pressing of the grapes. Additionally, herbs like oregano, thyme, rosemary, dill, mint and basil are commonly used in Greek cooking. Herbal teas are free of any caffeine or tannins. Greeks believe chamomile (‘Hamomili‘) and wild sage (‘Faskomilo‘) are good for your health. Greek Coffee is always served black. We never add milk. It will disturb the thick sediment at the bottom of the cup, and the drink will get gritty. As a matter of fact, coffee drinking is a purely social experience.