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Epirus Recipes

Mountain food from the northwest: pies above all, made with hand-rolled phyllo, plus dairy from a region that has always been sheep and goat country rather than farmland.

Map of the Greek world with Epirus Recipes highlighted

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 Spanakopita, Tiropita, Kolokithopita Epirou, Batzina, Soupa trahana and Giouvarlakia. 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.

Epirus Recipes

14 recipes on the site so far.

A tray of spanakopita cut into squares showing green spinach filling under crisp golden phyllo Greek Breads and PiesGreek Spanakopita Σπανακόπιτα · 1h 30m · serves 8 A square of Greek cheese pie with crisp layered phyllo and a pale creamy filling Greek Breads and PiesTiropita Τυρόπιτα · 1h 15m · serves 8 Greek Breads and PiesKolokithopita Epirus Κολοκυθόπιτα Ηπείρου · 1h 55m · serves 8 A rustic loaf of Epirus batzina cornbread with greens Greek Breads and PiesBatzina Μπατζίνα · 55m · serves 8 A bowl of Greek trahanas soup, thick and rustic Greek SoupsTrahanas Soup Σούπα τραχανά · 30m · serves 4 A bowl of Greek giouvarlakia meatball soup in avgolemono sauce Greek SoupsGiouvarlakia Γιουβαρλάκια · 1h 15m · serves 6 A cup of Greek mountain tea with dried sideritis stems Greek DrinksTsai tou Vounou Τσάι του βουνού · 13m · serves 4 A slice of Epirus tyropita cheese pie showing a thick custardy filling Greek Breads and PiesTyropita Epirus Τυρόπιτα Ηπείρου · 1h 45m · serves 8 A slice of Greek hortopita wild greens pie Greek Breads and PiesHortopita Χορτόπιτα · 1h 25m · serves 8 Greek Meze and AppetisersSaganaki Metsovone Σαγανάκι μετσοβόνε · 18m · serves 4 Greek Dips and SaucesGalotyri me Paximadi Γαλοτύρι με παξιμάδι · 10m · serves 4 Greek DrinksTsipouro Serving Guide Τσίπουρο · 5m · serves 4 A loaf of Greek bobota cornbread, sliced Greek Breads and PiesBobota Μπομπότα · 55m · serves 8 Greek Main CoursesBourani me Kotopoulo Μπουράνι με κοτόπουλο · 1h 15m · serves 4

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