Fanouropita or Phanouropita is a Greek, vegan cake made to honour St. Phanourios (or Fanourios), who is known to help people find lost objects or to reveal things to you.
Healthy Recipes
If you’re craving a burger, make these juicy Greek flavoured turkey burgers. These burgers are bursting with flavor from garlic, oregano, thyme, tarragon, black pepper and carino seasoning.
Fassolakia yahni is a traditional Greek vegan and gluten free dish with green beans and potatoes in tomato sauce, which is easy, tasty, cheap and healthy.
A healthy Greek lentil salad with lots of vegetables for a nutritious lunch or side packed with protein.
Louvi, as we call it in Cyprus, are the black eyed beans. Although the word “louvi” is ancient Greek from lovion, plural lovia (λόβιον, πλ. λόβια), in Greece this word is not used any more. Instead, they are called fassolia mavrommatika, which means black-eyed peas.
You’ve heard me talking about the Mediterranean Diet many times in my posts. For those of you who are not familiar with this diet, this is the modern nutritional recommendation, inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of Crete which expanded to the remaining parts of Greece and followed by most of the countries of Southern …
Mpamies (okra with sun-dried tomatoes) is a light and healthy low carb dish which is full of nutrients and other healthy properties.
This healthy, low fat Anthotyro-cream cheese strawberry Jelly is made with real strawberries and anthotyro, a low fat cheese, similar to ricotta.
Roxakia are Greek vegan, bicoloured, yeasted dough cookies, which after being baked are drenched in syrup. The original recipe is not vegan as it requires eggs and milk in the dough. I have made my own Lenten version with no milk and no eggs and they were even better than the original ones.
Revithosoupa, (pr. reh-vee-THO-sou-pah), is a very simple, vegan Greek, healthy and nutritious chickpea soup made with a few simple ingredients.