Greek cuisine is useful, nutritious, infinitely varied and incredibly tasty. What did not see on the Greek table! Bright colors and wonderful aromas of meat, fish, grilled, chicken rolls, fried cheese ... Some taverns may offer to try risotto and stuffed potatoes. Greek cuisine as part of the cultural heritage of the country has absorbed the traditions of neighboring peoples, including the eastern. The main advantages of Greece cuisine - the wealth and generosity.
The most extraordinary dish of Greece, in my opinion - moussaka. It has amazing flavor and looks very appetizing. In Arabic the word musaqqa means "cold." Moussaka is a pie with vegetables and minced meat, which can be served chilled.
How to cook moussaka?
To prepare for you:
1 small eggplant
4 medium sized potato tuber
1 tomato
100 g grated carrots
1 / 2 small onion
250 g minced meat (turkey)
50 ml of milk (for stuffing)
150 g cheese
5 g of cinnamon
salt
olive oil
For milk sauce:
300 g of milk
1 tbsp. l. flour
1 egg
salt
Preparation moussaka consists of several steps:
1. Prepare vegetables and meat. At different pans fry sliced rings eggplant and potatoes until golden brown. In another bowl - grated carrots and chopped onions. A few minutes later mix carrots and onion with minced meat. Dai mince fry and add a little milk and sliced tomatoes. Ground in the cooking process must share the spatula into small lumps in order to make it more crumbly. Do not forget to salt each ingredient. To make the exotic taste, you can add minced cinnamon.
According to the classic recipe, moussaka is made from lamb, but there are many different variations of the use of a meat. Tender turkey meat, in my opinion, is perfect for this dish.
2. Sauce. The sauce is prepared pretty quickly: all ingredients are mixed and whipped corolla. Traditionally used for cooking moussaka bechamel is preparing a little longer and tedious. Milk and egg mass, mixed with flour for flavoring qualities are not much different from it.
3. Layers. For baking suitable shape for a cake or any heat-resistant glassware. In moussaka vegetables, minced meat, cheese, laid out the layers and spread them can be in any sequence. If you start with the eggplant, they become soft and tender and become the mushroom flavor. Then we can put potatoes. Middle layer is usually spread stuffing. Once again, minced eggplant and final layer of potatoes. Top with grated cheese moussaka.
4. Baking. Bake the dish should be at a temperature of 200-220 degrees 20-30 minutes until the milk until the sauce thickens and showing bright amber crust.
Very tasty moussaka obtained if before you bake, roast vegetables and stuffing everything up to full readiness and well all season with salt. Roasted vegetables and meat gives the dish a richer flavor.
The next dish, spread throughout Greece ...
Dzadzyki
This yogurt snack, served with meat or with crispy bread. Dzadzyki - a dish of Turkish origin, are so accustomed in Greece, that it can be found in the menu of almost any Greek tavernas.
For dzadzyki need the following ingredients:
2 small cucumbers
200 g medium-fat sour cream
2 small garlic cloves
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 sprig of dill
The recipe is pretty simple. Should be clear from the cucumber peel and grate it on a coarse grater. Squeeze cucumber mass to spare her from the water. Grate the garlic finely and mix it with cucumber and sour cream (sour cream substitute unsweetened yogurt, which is used for preparation of the Greeks). And at the end add the olive oil with vinegar, as decorations dzadzyki sprinkle with dill.
Gyros
This dish uses the same popularity in Greece, as shaurma the Middle East.
Actually, this is an analog shaurma.
To prepare the two gyros, one should:
4 small pickled cucumber
2-3 potato tuber
4 leaves lettuce
2 tablespoons thick dzadzyki
200 g chicken
2 sheets of thin soft lavash
1 / 2 small onion
spices for chicken
salt
Cucumbers should be cut lengthwise into 4 pieces, onion shred semirings. Cook the chicken, split chicken breast on oblong pieces and fry with spices. For gyros used chopped roasted meat, usually pork and lamb, but at home is better to do chicken. Make a thick dzadzyki and cook potato chips (fried slices of potato).
Each detailed sheet of lavash put on 2 sheets of green salad. Put the salad on top of layers of chicken, onions, cucumber slices and potato chips. Add a spoonful of dzadzyki and wrapped in pita, tucking his bottom so that the sauce does not.
That's the whole trick! With a little effort, you can diversify your life a Greek flair, turn a table in a magnificent decoration, full of fried, cheese, spicy aromas. In Greece, returning again and again to try all this culinary splendor.
