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Greek Chickpea and Pulse Recipes
Revithia, fasolia, fakes and fava. Pulses carried Greek households through every fasting period and every lean year, and the cooking shows it.
Greek cooking uses a narrow pantry very well. A handful of ingredients appear again and again, in different combinations and cooked in different ways, and knowing what each one does is more useful than memorising individual recipes.
Dishes built on it include Gigantes plaki, Fasolada, Fava Santorinis, Fakes, Pitaroudia and Louvi.
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 Chickpea and Pulse Recipes
18 recipes on the site so far.
Baked Giant Beans in TomatoGigantes plaki Γίγαντες πλακίMain Courses · 2h 5m · serves 6
FasoladaFasolada ΦασολάδαSoups · 1h 45m · serves 6
Yellow Split Pea PureeFava Santorinis Φάβα ΣαντορίνηςDips and Sauces · 1h · serves 6
Lentil Soup with VinegarFakes ΦακέςSoups · 1h 7m · serves 6
Rhodes Chickpea and Tomato FrittersPitaroudia ΠιταρούδιαMeze and Appetisers · 45m · serves 6
Cypriot Black-Eyed Bean Salad with ChardLouvi ΛούβιSide Dishes · 55m · serves 4
Chickpea FrittersRevithokeftedes ΡεβιθοκεφτέδεςMeze and Appetisers · 45m · serves 6
Lentils and RiceFakorizo ΦακόρυζοMain Courses · 50m · serves 4
White Bean SaladFasolia salata Φασόλια σαλάταSalads · 1h 15m · serves 6
Lentil SaladFakes salata Φακές σαλάταSalads · 45m · serves 6
Chickpea SaladRevithosalata ΡεβιθοσαλάταSalads · 1h · serves 6
Red Lentil SoupSoupa fakes kokkines Σούπα φακές κόκκινεςSoups · 40m · serves 4
Cypriot Lentils and Rice with OnionsMoutzentra ΜουτζέντραMain Courses · 1h 5m · serves 5Get one proper Greek recipe a week
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