MONKFISH WITH CHOPPED OLIVES AND LEMON SAFFRON RICE

13. MONKFISH WITH CHOPPED OLIVES AND LEMON SAFFRON RICE

20 June 2022

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14. ANISE-SCENTED WILD RICE & QUINOA SALAD WITH KIDNEY BEANS, MESCLUN & A TANGY ORANGE DRESSING

19 May 2022

15. WHOLE ROASTED CHICKEN STUFFED WITH WILD RICE & PINE NUTS

15 April 2022

16. WILD RICE SALAD WITH GREENS AND PAPAYA

28 March 2022

17. Wild Rice – Orzo Pilaf with Caramelized Leeks

4 November 2021

A colorful wild rice pilaf dish, with plenty of flavors and fragrances! Feel free to enjoy it not only during the holiday season, but year-round just as well!

18. Whole Chicken Baked with Rice and Feta

31 December 2019

In the cooking of northern Greece, baked rice dishes appear in several places and make for a regional specialty, since in few other places around the country are rice dishes prepared in the oven. This dish, called rithanathema in Greek, possibly traces its etymology to the Greek word for bird, ornitha, and that for food, edesma. It is a ...

19. Lentil-Rice Pilaf from the Dodecanese

13 October 2019

This Greek recipe for lentil-rice pilaf comes from Halki, an island in the southern Dodecanese. The combination of legumes, especially lentils, and pasta or rice is very popular int his part of Greece. There are dozens of slightly different versions of this dish, with rice, bulgur, and fresh and dried pasta.

20. Tomato Rice with a Modern Twist

11 May 2019

The range of Greek vegetable-rice dishes covers all manner of seasonal ingredients. These recipes are more similar in texture to Italian risotti than to the pilafs (pilafi in Greek) of the East.This is one of my favorite go-to recipes when I want to create something that harks back to tradition but is modern, easy, and elegant. It is adapted ...

21. Carnival, Greek Style

3 March 2013

Rio. New Orleans. Those are the places that come to mind when most people think of Carnival. But in Greece, Carnival, called “apokries,” which means “away from meat,” is one of the most festive times and yet one of the least known to non-Greeks, probably because most visitors to Greece gravitate to the country in the summer. Apokries lasts three ...

22. Calamari stuffed with Rice and Pine Nuts

11 February 2013

Calamari stuffed with rice is considered an aphrodisiac in the Greek kitchen!