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BYZANTINE DINNER

Byzantine traditional cuisine - Byzantine dinner. Diverse tasters, traditional greek ingredients and dishes, greek cooking recipes.

Today is the common knowledge that gastronimy is closely associated with the history and culture of each country and its people. Furthermore, it is a material aspect of life interwined with enjoyment and health. Traditional Greek cuisine displays great interest, for it is one of the few in the world characterized by a millennia-long history, impressive lastingness, and a logic that pays heed to tastiness and healthy culinary practice. It is apt, therefore, to become one of the country's most powerful ambassadors abroad especially now that the rest of Europe, and the American continent, are in the process of discovering the advantages of Mediterranean cookery.

Sweet cheese pies (Plakous entyritis)
Sweet cheese pies (Plakous entyritis), Greek cooking recipes, greekcookingrecipes.com
for the pastry:
600 g flour
1/3 cup olive oil
juice of three oranges
salt

for the filling:
500 g fresh myzithra or mascarpone or ricotta
ground cinnamon
icing sugar

Blend the olive oil and orange juice with the flour in a food processor for 10 minutes and knead until the dough is stiff. Let rest before rolling out and cutting into 10-12-cm rounds. Fill them with cheese, fold in falf, and seal edges together with the tines of a fork. Fry in olive oil and drain on paper towels. Sprinkle with icing sugar and cinnamon. (serves 6)

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Nut tarts with grape-must molasses (Plakous me petimezi)
Nut tarts with grape-must molasses (Plakous me petimezi), Greek cooking recipes, greekcookingrecipes.com
for the pastry:
600 g flour
1/3 cup olive oil
juice of 3 oranges
salt
olive oil for frying

for the filling:
600 g mixed nuts (100 g each poppy and sesame seeds, coarsely ground pistachios, almonds, walnuts, and hazel nuts)
1/3 cup honey
100g sugar
1 cinnamon stick
200 g (3/4 cup) grape must molasses (petimezi)
pine nuts (optional)

Combine the ingredients for the pastry and knead to form a stiff dough. Allow to rest 30 minutes and roll out about 1/4 cm thick. Cut out 10-12 cm rounds with a small saucer or cutter. Boil the nuts with the sugar, honey, 1-2 tablespoons of grape must, and the cinnamon stick until they are caramelized. Do not overcook. Cool and spoon some of the mixture in the middle of each pastry circle, fold in half, and seal edgeswith the tines of a fork. Fry the pies in olive oil until golden and drain on paper towels. Pour some grape must molasses on top and serve garnished with pine nuts. (serves 6)

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Byzantine traditional cuisine - Byzantine dinner. Diverse tasters, traditional greek ingredients and dishes, greek cooking recipes.