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Rhodes and Dodecanese Recipes
The Dodecanese sit close enough to Asia Minor to have absorbed its spicing, and produce chickpea dishes, stuffed pastas and island cheeses found nowhere else.
Greek food is regional to a degree that surprises people who know it only through taverna menus. Mountain villages cook nothing like island ports. Areas under Venetian rule for four hundred years ended up with a completely different pantry from those under Ottoman rule. Refugee populations arriving in the 1920s brought spicing that had never existed on the mainland.
Dishes on this page include Htapodi sta karvouna, Pitaroudia, Melekouni, Dolmades me marouli, Sitaraki and Makarounes Karpathou. Where a recipe belongs clearly to one place I have said so, and where a dish is claimed by several regions at once I have said that too.
Regional labels in Greek cooking are honest approximations rather than strict boundaries. Recipes travelled with people, and most dishes have a version in every part of the country.
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.
Rhodes and Dodecanese Recipes
16 recipes on the site so far.
Grilled OctopusHtapodi sta karvouna Χταπόδι στα κάρβουναMeze and Appetisers · 1h 30m · serves 4
Rhodes Chickpea and Tomato FrittersPitaroudia ΠιταρούδιαMeze and Appetisers · 45m · serves 6
Rhodes Sesame and Honey Wedding SweetMelekouni ΜελεκούνιDesserts · 40m · serves 16
Dodecanese Orzo-Style Pasta with TomatoSitaraki ΣιταράκιMain Courses · 35m · serves 4
Makarounes KarpathouMakarounes Karpathou Μακαρούνες ΚαρπάθουMain Courses · 1h 30m · serves 6
Kalymnos Courgette and Herb FrittataSfougato Kalymnou Σφουγγάτο ΚαλύμνουMain Courses · 1h · serves 6
Pickled Rock Samphire SaladKritamo ΚρίταμοSalads · 30m · serves 10Get one proper Greek recipe a week
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