Feature: Vegetarian

There are varieties of the diet as well: an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, a lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but not eggs, and an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products. A vegan diet excludes all animal products, including eggs, dairy, and honey.

Tourlou (Vegetable Stew)

Cooking Time: 1 hour

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Sides

Greek

As summer soon comes to a close, we decided to do a traditional and easy to make dish. As always, we wanted something healthy (after all, summer hasn’t ended just...

Bougatsa

Cooking Time: 45 minutes

Dessert

Greek

One of our favorite desserts! Our bougatsa recipe is a traditional, custard pie, but in researching the history, we found that it had a deeper history than a simple dessert....

Skordalia

Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Greek

Skordalia is a delicious, garlicky, dip/spread that is made with either potato or stale bread (or a combination of both) depending on what part of Greece you visit. Our cousin...

Greek Yogurt Lemon Cake

Cooking Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Dessert

Joanna was looking at recipes for a Lemon cake. She loves Lemon cake (Lemon Loaf, Lemon Poppy muffins…you get the picture, she’s a lemon fan). She came across a few...

Gigantes Plaki

Cooking Time: 2:15 hours

Sides

Greek

An oldie but goodie! We’ve always had a special place for gigantes ever since our mom used to force us to eat them when we were young. Over the years...

Vegetarian Moussaka

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Greek

In keeping with the theme of Lent, we decided to take a traditional Greek dish, Moussaka, and make it vegetarian! We didn’t just omit the meat sauce and call it...

Paximathakia

Cooking Time: 50 minutes

Paximathakia are a twice baked cookie, similar to biscotti, or hard rusk-style savory bread, served as thick slices. Here we make a very simple sweet cookie version perfect with coffee...

Greek Quiche

Cooking Time: 55 minutes

Since one of the Greek Sisters (Joanna) is a vegetarian, she’s always coming up with ways to make Greek dishes without meat. This recipe takes a couple of components from...

Kourabiedes are popular Greek shortbread style butter cookies, covered in powdered sugar and quite popular for the holidays. We are providing a super simple recipe that’s vegetarian but definitely delicious...

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White Bean Soup with Spiced Brown Butter

Cooking Time: 45 minutes

American

Just in time for Christmas, this delicious white bean soup is the perfect answer to a cold winter’s evening. It is savory, filling, and best of all, healthy! We’ve enjoyed...

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Greek Yogurt Pancakes

Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Breakfast

Using Greek yogurt anywhere and everywhere isn’t really a new concept for us, we’ve been doing it for as long as we can remember. But in a casual conversation the...

Feature: Vegetarian

Tourlou (Vegetable Stew)

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Bougatsa

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Skordalia

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Greek Yogurt Lemon Cake

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Gigantes Plaki

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Vegetarian Moussaka

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Greek Quiche

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Kourabiedes

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White Bean Soup with Spiced Brown Butter

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Greek Yogurt Pancakes

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Peppers Stuffed with Feta

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