Greek Recipes

Rizo Ghallo (Rice Pudding)

Boil 1 cup rice in 1 cup water for 5 minutes. Add 1 qt. milk and boil slowly for 1/2 hour. Add sugar to taste and pinch of salt, and cook 15 minutes longer. Sprinkle with cinnamon and serve.

Ghallata Burico (Cream Pie)

Mix 1/2 cup sugar with yolks of 6 eggs. Add 1 qt. milk and 3 1/2 tablespoonfuls cornstarch. Cook for 25 minutes until thick. Remove from fire and cool. Cover a pie pan with pie crust dough, add filling and top crust. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake for 1/2 hour in a slow oven. Serve with sugar syrup.

Greek Pot Roast

Put the meat in a deep pot. Make incisions in the roast and fill with mixture of pepper, cinnamon, salt, small piece of garlic or onion. Add a little water and let simmer for 15 minutes. Add 1/2 cup vinegar while cooking and let it come to a boil for 5 minutes. Add teaspoonful tomato paste. Put in enough water to cover the roast and cook until well done. Serve with macaroni.

Kourabiades (Greek Holiday Cake)

1 lb. butter melted. Beat for 1 hour. Add cupful of confectioner's sugar and 2 eggs. Beat for 1/2 hour more. Add enough flour to make a medium dough, not too thick and not too thin. Let the dough stand for about 25 minutes, covered with a cloth. Knead and make into small round or fancy cakes. Bake in a buttered pan until very slightly brown. Smother with powdered sugar and serve.

Kema (Spaghetti with Meat Sauce)

Spaghetti as desired (1 or 2 lbs.) Cook in boiling water. Strain and sprinkle with grated cheese. 1 lb. chopped beef. Melt 1 cup of butter and add chopped meat. Let it cook in the pan until brown. Pour over the spaghetti.

Dolmothes (Stuffed Cabbage)

Clean a head of cabbage and boil enough to soften the leaves. Mix 1 lb. of chopped meat with salt, pepper and 1 cup of uncooked rice, parsley, celery and a piece of stick cinnamon. Take the cabbage from water and separate the leaves. Lay out each leaf and put on it a large tablespoonful of the meat. Roll it up and place in the cabbage water with tomato sauce. After placing all the rolls in the pot, cover tightly with a plate to keep the rolls in shape. Pour over the remaining sauce. Let boil until the meat is cooked.

Artichokes

Clean the artichokes and stand in cold salted water for 10 minutes. Slice 1 small onion and brown in saucepan with 1/2 glass olive oil. Add 1/2 large can of tomatoes and heat. Drain artichokes and put them in the saucepan. Cover and simmer until tender.

Or

Clean the artichokes, boil slowly in salted water until tender. Make salad dressing of olive oil and lemon juice. Break up the artichokes with a fork and dip each leaf in the dressing as you eat it.

Greek Cake

Cream the butter and slowly add the sugar and vanilla. Stir in the flour until the dough can be taken up in small pieces, rolled between the hands and flattened into small oblong cakes--perhaps 2 inches by 3 inches. Bake 3/4 of an hour in moderate oven. Sprinkle thickly with powdered sugar. Will keep indefinitely.

Meatballs in Grape Leaves

Mix the meat, seasonings, rice and olive oil and shape into small balls. Throw young grape leaves that have been dried in the sun and carefully kept from dust, into boiling water to soften. Wrap each meat ball in a grape leaf. Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in saucepan. Arrange meat balls in the saucepan, heat through, then cover with eggs slightly beaten and the lemon juice. Cover and simmer slowly until the meat is well cooked. The leaves are eaten with the meat.

Seker Ketesi (Stuffed Cookies)

Fill the inside of the cookies with a mixture of nuts chopped fine, sugar, and powdered cloves. Make into fancy shapes if desired, scalloping the edges, etc.

Sarizine Bourna

Roll out as thin as possible. Sprinkle the surface of the dough with fine nuts. Then "tuck" the mixture up just as if it were cloth to be plaited in fine close tucks or plaits, perpendicularly, about 1 inch high. Bake, after having sprinkled melted butter and sugar over the top. Cut into small bars after it is baked. (This is like rich pie-crust and can be made into pretty shapes by the tucking process.)

Spinach

Boil the spinach till it is tender, then strain. Fry hamburg steak with 2 or 3 spoonfuls of lard; salt and pepper. Add the spinach, after the steak is fried, stirring it in evenly. To serve, flatten it into smooth cakes. Beat 5 to 6 eggs and pour over the top. Bake 5 minutes.

Greek Soup

Boil 1/2 chicken or equivalent amount of beef. Remove the chicken from the water in which it was boiled, and add 1/2 cup rice, salt, pepper. Cook till rice is soft. Beat up 2 eggs, add to them the juice of 1 lemon, and gradually mix with the rest of the soup.

Rice with Meat

(Asiatic Greek Method, i.e., Turkish)

Fry the meat, add onions, then rice. (Probably the rice is previously cooked, then browned with the meat and onions.)

Rice with Meat (European Greek Method)

Chop meat till fine, then fry in lard. Add 2 onions chopped fine and fry till brown. Cook 1 cup rice, and 2 cups water, or 2 cups rice and 4 cups water, etc. Take 1/2 can of Campbell's Tomato Soup, add to the rice. Then add to the meat and onions, cook slowly, and serve.