Traditional Greek Dishes you must try!

Greek cuisine is renowned around the world for its deliciousness, its variety and its nutritional value, since Mediterranean cuisine is generally considered the healthiest of all. The basis of Greek cuisine is olive oil, bread, cereals, cereals, dairy products, vegetables, legumes, honey, fish and meats such as goat, lamb and pork. In Greek food you will taste many spices and herbs, but used in moderation so as not to mask the taste of vegetables or meats, such as oregano, mint, garlic, dill, parsley, parsley, bay leaf, basil, thyme, cinnamon, cloves, rosemary, nutmeg and saffron of Kozani. You will also find a variety of wines, due to the large production of grapes in Greece.

Because food in Greece is directly linked to company and conversation, it is considered a very important part of the daily life of Greeks. There are many types of eating places in Greece, such as restaurants, tavernas, grills, fish taverns, ouzeri, tsipouradika but also souvlaki restaurants and cafeterias.

Some dishes of Greek cuisine are well known and served in restaurants all over the world. Most of the you can shop them at Bakaliko!

We recommend you to try:

Greek Meat Dishes:

Souvlaki with Pita (Pork or Chicken)
Gyros Portion or with Pie (Pork or Chicken)
Moussaka
Pastitsio
Kokoretsi
Papoutsakia
Meatballs
Soutzoukakia
Kontosuvli
Country
Kleftiko
Yuvetsi
Lamb on a spit
Lamb Fricassee
Lamb, Pork or Beef Lemonato
Rabbit or Beef Stew
Spetsoufai
Pastitsada
Rooster with Chilopites
Baked Chicken with Potatoes
Chicken with Bamias
Sausages
Patsas
Cooking
Smoked Meat (Apaki from Crete and Siglino from the Peloponnese)

 

Seafood:

Fried or grilled squid
Octopus, battered, cooked or grilled
Shrimps/shrimps steamed or sautéed
Cuttlefish in red sauce or with spinach
Steamed mussels, fried or with pilaf
Sea urchins
Glassfish
Quinces
Burdetto
Fried anchovies
Fried roach
Grilled sea bream
Fried barbel
Fried galleon with garlic
Fried cod with garlic or flatbread
Grilled sea bass or flatbread
Grilled or grilled salmon or flatbread
Grilled or tiled littérinis
Fried sole
Sardines Pastes
Fish soup

 

Vegetables, Pulses & Ladera:

Stuffed Tomatoes, Peppers, Squash and Eggplant
Cabbage dumplings
Cucumbers a la Polita
Green beans
Green beans
Giants
Black-eyed beans with red sauce
Lentils
Brioche
Imam
Okra

 

Salads, Side Dishes & Appetizers:

Greek Salad
Chorta
Black Bean Salad
Dakos Cretan
Baked Potatoes
Zucchini, peppers and eggplants fried with batter
White fried eggplants
Fava
Tomato balls
Zucchini meatballs
Chickpeas
Florina peppers
Pies (spinach pie, cheese pie, prasopita, grass pie, pumpkin pie, chicken pie, meat pie, etc.)
Baked Feta cheese
Saganaki
Tzatziki
Skordalia
Eggplant salad
Taramosalata
Cheesecake
Cheeses (feta, cephalotyri, manouri, anthotyro)

 

Greek Sweets:

Baklava
Kadaifi
Walnut pie
Galaktompoureko
Loukoumades
Loukoumia Syros
Spoon sweets
Halva
Syros halva pies
Pasteli with Sesame or Dry Nuts
Koulouri
Melomakarona
Kourabie
Tsoureki
Yoghurt with honey, nuts and fruit

 

Greek Drinks:

Wine
Retsina
Ouzo
Tsipouro
Raki
Tsikoudia
Greek Coffee
Coffee Frappe