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Peloponnese Recipes

Olive country, and the source of Kalamata olives and much of Greece's best oil. The cooking is rustic, pork-heavy in winter, and heavy on oranges and figs.

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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 Strapatsada, Stifado, Hirino me selino, Syglino Maniatiko, Lalangia and Hylopites. 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.

Peloponnese Recipes

15 recipes on the site so far.

Greek scrambled eggs with tomato and crumbled feta in a pan with breadScrambled Eggs with Tomato and FetaStrapatsada ΣτραπατσάδαBreakfast Recipes · 23m · serves 3A pot of Greek beef stifado with whole small onions in a dark cinnamon-spiced sauceStifadoStifado ΣτιφάδοMain Courses · 3h · serves 6Pork and Celery in Egg-Lemon SauceHirino me selino Χοιρινό με σέλινοMain Courses · 2h 5m · serves 6Mani syglino cured and smoked pork with orange peel and fennelMani Cured and Smoked PorkSyglino Maniatiko Σύγκλινο ΜανιάτικοMain Courses · 2h · serves 8Peloponnese New Year's Eve Fried DoughLalangia ΛαλάγγιαDesserts · 1h 50m · serves 8Greek hylopites egg pasta with chicken in tomato saucePeloponnese Egg Pasta with ChickenHylopites ΧυλοπίτεςMain Courses · 2h · serves 6A sliced Greek fanouropita spice cake, dusted with cinnamonEggless Spice Cake for Saint FanouriosFanouropita ΦανουρόπιταDesserts · 1h 5m · serves 12A glass of Greek portokalada fresh orange drink with iceFresh Orange DrinkPortokalada ΠορτοκαλάδαDrinks · 10m · serves 4Fried Peloponnese Sfela CheeseSaganaki sfela Σαγανάκι σφέλαMeze and Appetisers · 18m · serves 4A whole roasted Greek galopoula turkey stuffed with chestnut rice fillingTurkey Stuffed with ChestnutsGalopoula gemisti me kastana Γαλοπούλα γεμιστή με κάσταναMain Courses · 5h · serves 12Sliced sykomaida fig and walnut bars from the PeloponnesePeloponnese Dried Fig and Walnut BarsSykomaida ΣυκομαΐδαDesserts · 30m · serves 12Apricot Spoon SweetVerikoko glyko Βερίκοκο γλυκόDesserts · 1h 15m · serves 16Argolida Slow-Baked Lamb with PotatoesBogana ΜπογάναMain Courses · 3h 55m · serves 6Maniot Pasta with Mizithra and EggTsouchti ΤσουχτήMain Courses · 30m · serves 4A small glass of Patras tentoura liqueur beside cinnamon bark and clovesPatras Cinnamon and Clove LiqueurTentoura ΤεντούραDrinks · 45m · serves 20
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