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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

12 recipes on the site so far.

Greek scrambled eggs with tomato and crumbled feta in a pan with bread Greek Breakfast RecipesStrapatsada Στραπατσάδα · 23m · serves 3 A pot of Greek beef stifado with whole small onions in a dark cinnamon-spiced sauce Greek Main CoursesGreek Stifado Στιφάδο · 3h · serves 6 Greek Main CoursesHirino me Selino Χοιρινό με σέλινο · 2h 5m · serves 6 Mani syglino cured and smoked pork with orange peel and fennel Greek Main CoursesSyglino Maniatiko Σύγκλινο Μανιάτικο · 2h · serves 8 Greek DessertsLalangia Λαλάγγια · 1h 50m · serves 8 Greek hylopites egg pasta with chicken in tomato sauce Greek Main CoursesHylopites Χυλοπίτες · 2h · serves 6 A sliced Greek fanouropita spice cake, dusted with cinnamon Greek DessertsFanouropita Φανουρόπιτα · 1h 5m · serves 12 A glass of Greek portokalada fresh orange drink with ice Greek DrinksPortokalada Πορτοκαλάδα · 10m · serves 4 Greek Meze and AppetisersSfela Saganaki Σαγανάκι σφέλα · 18m · serves 4 A whole roasted Greek galopoula turkey stuffed with chestnut rice filling Greek Main CoursesGalopoula Gemisti me Kastana Γαλοπούλα γεμιστή με κάστανα · 5h · serves 12 Greek DessertsSykomaida Συκομαΐδα · 30m · serves 12 Greek DessertsVerikoko Glyko Βερίκοκο γλυκό · 1h 15m · serves 16

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