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Greek starters and meze |
Meze (small dishes) can be eaten as a whole dinner. Order several small dishes that everyone around the table shares and eat together with bread. Or order a starter and eat it as just a starter, or have it as a side dish to a main course. The dishes included here naturally come in different variations, and there are also local differences. So don't be angry if our descriptions don't match yours. This is Greek food as we see it. The menus are in 999 cases out of 1000 in English, and usually also in Greek. In large tourist resorts there are also menus in other languages. We have chosen to use both English and Greek. The names are first in English, then in Greek (with Latin letters.)
V means vegetarian, M means meat and F means fish & seafood.Greek salad - Choriatiki (V) Black eye bean salad - Mavromatika salata (V)
Greek salad - Choriatiki - comes in many different varieties.
Potato salad - Patatosalata (V) Octopus salad - Oktapodi (F) Tzatziki - Tzatziki (V) Eggplant salad - Melitzanosalata (V)
Green beans - Fasolakia - with olive oil, lemon and spices.
Green beans - Fasolakia (V) Tarama salad - Taramosalata (F) Hot Cheese dip - Tirokafteri (V) Garlic sauce - Skordalia (V)
Fava with red onion and lemon. |
Split pea puree - Fava (V) Artichokes with peas - Agkinares me arakas (V) Baked giant white beans - Gigantes (V) (M)
Baked giant white beans - Gigantes - with tomato, onion and dill.
Boiled greens/Spinach - Chorta (V)
Boiled greens - Chorta - with olive oil and lemon.
Beetroot - Pantsaria (V) Stuffed vine leaves - Dolmades (V) (M) Stuffed peppers - Peperi me tiri (V)
Stuffed zucchini flowers - Kolokithokorfades - with yogurt on top.
Stuffed zucchini flower - Kolokithokorfades (V) Fried zucchini - Kolokithakia tiganita (V)
Fried Calamari on the left and fried zucchini on the right. |
Fried eggplant - Melitzanes tiganites (V)
Saganaki.
Saganaki - Saganaki (V)
Baked feta - Feta sto fournou - can be served in different ways.
Baked feta - Feta sto fournou (V) Cheese balls/croquettes - Tirokeftedes (V) Zucchini balls/croquettes - Kolokithokeftedes (V) Chickpea balls - Revithokeftedes (V)
Cheese balls - Tirokeftedes - can contain different types of cheese.
Spinach pie - Spanakopita (V) Tomato Balls / Tomato fritters - Tomatokeftedes (V)
Tomato Balls - Tomatokeftedes - with feta cheese and herbs.
Cheese pie - Tiropita (V)
Fried rolls - Bourekakia - are reminiscent of small pies.
Fried rolls - Bourekakia (V) (M) |
Cretan Rusk - Dakos (V)
Cretan Rusk - Dakos - is moistened barley rusk covered with tomato, feta cheese and oregano.
Small fish - "The name of the fish species" Tiganites
(F)
Small fried fish - Tiganites - eaten whole with bones and all.
Grilled octopus - Oktapodi psito (F)
Grilled octopus - Octapodi psito - is very good together with ouzo.
Marinated anchovies - Gavros marinatos (F)
Marinated anchovies - Gavros marinatos - are also very good with ouzo.
Mussels saganaki - Midia saganaki (F)
Mussels saganaki - Midia saganaki - are oven-grated mussels with tomato sauce and feta cheese.
Shrimps saganaki - Garides saganaki (F) Snails - Salingaria kochli (F) Fried snails - Xoxlioi Mpoumpuristi (F) Symi shrimps - Simiako garidaki (F)
Symi shrimps - Simiako garidaki - eaten whole with shell, tail and head. |
Sea squirts - Fouskes (F)
Fouskes are served raw with a little lemon and you drink ouzo with it.
Noble pen shell or fan mussel - Pinna (F) Fresh sea urchin - Archinoos (F)
Fish and shellfish plate with, among other things, sea urchins (archinoos on the left.)
Meatballs - Keftedes (M) Kokoretsi - Kokoretsi (M) Fried liver - Sikoti (M)
Meatballs - Keftedes - are like Swedish meatballs but with other spices.
Loukaniko/Sausages - Loukaniko (M)
Sausage - Loukaniko - is available in all possible varieties and is, at best, locally produced.
Seftalia - Seftalia (M) Pikilia - Pikilia (V) (F) (M)
Pikilia is a platter with a selection of small dishes.
Greek honey is not a dish, but it is used in many dishes and tastes good on yogurt.
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