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    Greek style braised green beans
    • Jun 24, 2018

    Greek style braised green beans

    This is another Greek favourite: a summer dish of green beans braised with tomato and olive oil. Greek cooking has a way with vegetables, which may come as a surprise to some: simple but delicious veggie meals are a staple of traditional home cooking even though it seems these dishes never really made it onto restaurant menus. You can use any type of green beans (peas and broad beans are often cooked the same way), and it works with frozen beans (or peas) too. As usual my coo
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    Green Rice
    • Apr 22, 2017

    Green Rice

    This is another Greek favourite - a classic dish called Spinach Rice (spanakorizo) but taking very well to lots of 'green' substitutions, hence I'll call it Green Rice. (This one too, like Stuffed Cabbage, comes attached with many childhood memories for me.) Basically it's greens cooked with rice (or is it rice cooked with greens?) - it's really that simple, and very easy to make. The more greens the better, so it's a good one to hide a few extra bits of veg in. Quite mellow
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    Greek stuffed cabbage (lazy version)
    • Feb 21, 2017

    Greek stuffed cabbage (lazy version)

    A childhood favourite and classic Greek winter dish: lahanodolamdes (cabbage dolma). A ‘dolma’ is a leaf parcel stuffed with a filling of spiced rice or a rice/meat mixture - variations are popular throughout the Caucasus and Middle East. A Greek ‘lahano-dolmas’ uses white cabbage and a lemon/egg mix (avgolemono) to thicken the sauce. Making the little leaf parcels is fiddly and time-consuming though, so my (full-time working) mum used to do this 'lazy' version. Ingredients:
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