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Greek Soups
From avgolemono thickened with egg and lemon to the bean soup that counts as the unofficial national dish, Greek soups are frugal, filling and built on pantry staples.
Greek cooking organises itself around the table rather than around courses in the French sense. Dishes arrive together, plates are shared, and the distinction between a starter and a main is often a matter of how much of it there is. The grouping below is a practical one for cooking from, not a rule anyone in Greece would recognise.
The dishes filed here include Kotosoupa avgolemono, Fasolada, Fakes, Magiritsa, Soupa trahana and Giouvarlakia. Each one is written out in full, with the reasoning behind each step rather than just the sequence, because the difference between a good version and a poor one is almost always in the detail that recipes leave out.
Every recipe on Kalliopi's Kitchen carries the dish's Greek name and a pronunciation, its region where that is meaningful, ingredient quantities in both metric and imperial, and an honest note on what commonly goes wrong. Nutrition figures are calculated estimates and are labelled as such.
Greek Soups
17 recipes on the site so far.
Greek SoupsGreek Avgolemono Soup
Κοτόσουπα αυγολέμονο · 1h 30m · serves 6
Greek SoupsFasolada
Φασολάδα · 1h 45m · serves 6
Greek SoupsFakes
Φακές · 1h 7m · serves 6
Greek SoupsMagiritsa
Μαγειρίτσα · 2h 30m · serves 8
Greek SoupsTrahanas Soup
Σούπα τραχανά · 30m · serves 4
Greek SoupsGiouvarlakia
Γιουβαρλάκια · 1h 15m · serves 6
Greek SoupsKotosoupa Avgolemono
Κοτόσουπα αυγολέμονο · 1h 50m · serves 6
Greek SoupsTarator
Ταράτορ · 15m · serves 4
Greek SoupsSoupa Kritharaki
Σούπα κριθαράκι · 40m · serves 4
Greek SoupsFakes Kokkines Soupa
Σούπα φακές κόκκινες · 40m · serves 4
Greek SoupsPatsas
Πατσάς · 4h 40m · serves 6