Fava Santorinis
Greek Fava is a silky purée of yellow peas, onion, olive oil and lemon, served with capers and red onion.
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Greek Fava is a silky purée of yellow peas, onion, olive oil and lemon, served with capers and red onion.
Garides Saganaki briefly cooks shrimp in a spicy tomato sauce with white wine, garlic, oregano, some chilli and crumbled feta.
Avgolemono is a Greek chicken soup with rice, tender chicken and a velvety bond of egg and fresh lemon juice.
Briam slowly roasts potatoes, zucchini, eggplant, tomatoes, onion and garlic with plenty of olive oil, parsley and oregano.
Giouvetsi braises beef in an aromatic tomato sauce and then cooks kritharaki directly in the casserole until the noodles absorb the meat juice.
For kleftiko, braise lamb, potatoes, onions, garlic, lemon and oregano for several hours in a sealed parcel of baking paper.
Greek kefftedakia are small, juicy meatballs with soaked bread, onion, garlic, parsley, mint and oregano.
Dolmadakia yalantzi are tender vine leaves with a meatless filling of round grain rice, onions, dill, mint, parsley, lemon and olive oil.
Cretan Dakos is made with moistened barley rusks, ripe tomatoes, mizithra or feta, olive oil, oregano, capers and olives.
Frankfurt Green Sauce combines seven fresh herbs with sour cream, yoghurt, vinegar and oil and is served cold with potatoes and eggs.
Heaven and earth combines mashed potatoes from the earth with apple compote from the sky and serves with fried black pudding and roasted onions.
Thuringian dumplings combine two parts raw, pressed potatoes with a part of boiled potato mixture and a core of butter croutons.
Bavarian pork knuckle slowly cooks on onions and spices, is poured with dark beer and finally crispy all around over high heat.
Rheinischer Döppekooche is a hearty potato cake made from raw grated potatoes, bacon, onion, egg and soaked bread roll.
Pfefferpotthast is a Westphalian beef and pork stew with beef, pork, lots of onions, generous black pepper, capers and a fresh lemon finish.
The Mecklenburg fish pan cooks a whole fish on layers of potatoes, carrots, onions and bacon with horseradish, dill and parsley.
Classic Leipziger Allerlei combines spring vegetables, morels, crayfish tails and small dumplings with melted butter.
Steak fries combines short fried beef steak with double fried fries and a creamy sauce of shallot, green pepper and beef stock.
The Breton galette complète fills a thin buckwheat galette with ham, full-flavoured cheese and an egg with a slightly runny yolk.
Moules marinières are mussels steamed in a few minutes with shallots, garlic, dry white wine, butter and parsley.
Pot-au-feu slowly cooks beef, bone marrow, root vegetables and leeks in a clear broth and serves the broth and garnish separately or together.
Gratin dauphinois is traditionally made of thin slices of potato, milk, cream, garlic and nutmeg - without eggs or cheese.
For Confit de canard, duck legs are cured with salt and herbs, slowly cooked in duck fat and only browned until crispy before serving.
Blanquette de veau is a light veal stew with mushrooms, pearl onions and a velvety sauce of cooking stock, cream, egg yolk and lemon.
Cassoulet combines white beans, duck confit, Toulouse sausage and pork belly to create a slow-braised classic from south-west France.