A Week of Simple Greek Family Food Recipes

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Easy Greek recipes

Shrimps à la spetsiota

This recipe for shrimps à la spetsiota comes from Estiatoria Milos, a Greek seafood eating house with branches in Athens, New York, Miami and London. This is a classic, simple dish with the shrimp braised in tomato sauce, feta and oregano. It's super quick to make but is packed full of delicious flavours.

Spanakopita

Bank check out this traditional Greek-style spanakopita recipe. The easy spinach filo pastry pie is super crispy and packed with flossy feta.

Classic moussaka

Moussaka is a traditional Greek dish and a family favourite with cinnamon-spiced lamb, meaty aubergine and a deliciously flossy, nutmeg-spiked sauce. Melt and consume it now, or freeze it for a quick and easy meal to have on-mitt.

Portokalopita

This recipe for portokalopita, a Greek orange and filo cake, is made actress custardy with more eggs than the traditional recipe. This treat comes from Hunker Terminate eating house, Kalimera.

A light blue speckled plate topped with a slice of orange cake, with a quenelle of yogurt on the side

Avocado tzatziki

Peachy every bit a snack with warm pitta, check out this avocado twist on traditional Greek tzatziki, brought to you by Crouch End restaurant, Kalimera.

A blue bowl filled with a yogurt and cucumber dip

Greek salad

Master this accented classic and you lot'll never exist curt of a delicious lunch. The key to an authentic Greek flavour is plenty of oregano and red wine vinegar.

Tiresome-cooked lamb gyros

Gyros are classic Greek fast food. In our version, we swap the traditional spit-roasted meat for wearisome-cooked, pull-autonomously shredded lamb, and add a moreish garlicky sauce.

Cretan oven-broiled potatoes with capers and anchovies

This simple and delicious dish inspired by the cuisine of Crete is perfect just with a leafy salad but also makes a not bad accessory to lamb or fish. If you lot fancy making it even richer, you lot tin can add a dash of double foam.

Oven-baked potatoes with capers and anchovies

Greek-fashion, lamb-stuffed courgettes

Make the nigh of courgettes by topping with spiced lamb mince, pine basics and feta in this comforting Mediterranean dish.

Greek lamb kleftiko

Kleftiko is a Greek dish of lamb and potatoes slow cooked with white wine, lemon and oregano. Serve with bread for mopping upwards juices, and a green salad dressed with red wine vinegar and olive oil.

Slow Cooked Lamb Shank Recipe For Lamb Kleftiko

Veggie moussaka

Put aubergines to work in this veggie version of a Greek classic – an platonic comforting recipe to feed the family unit wednesday.

Spanakopita spring rolls

Turn the classic Greek savoury pie into a fun, vegetarian canapé, lightly spiced with nutmeg and lifted with yogurt dip.

Spiced lamb cutlets with smoked aubergine

These spiced lamb cutlets with smoked aubergine take a little while just they are really easy to make and and then worth it.

Spicy Lamb Cutlets Recipe with Smoked Aubergine

Aubergine and lamb pasticcio

This Greek-inspired aubergine and lamb pasticcio is easy to make but is packed full of fantastic flavours. Information technology serves six and so is perfect for feeding a oversupply, or you can freeze the leftovers for another time.

Greek Pastitsio Recipe With Aubergine and Lamb

Light-green Greek salad with marinated feta

Wide beans are in season from June until September, and this fresh green Greek salad with marinated feta is a dandy way to make utilise of them while you tin. Serve equally a side salad, or with toasted pitta or flatbread for a low-cal dejeuner or dinner.

Loukoumades (Greek donuts)

I of the pleasures of a Greek vacation comes in those moments after dark (and after dinner) when everyone moves to the tables in a local square to drink coffee and eat plates of tiny cinnamon-scented donuts. Whether your preference is for the sugar-dusted variety or those soaked in dear, endeavor making them at home for a crowd-pleasing dessert with a divergence.

Greek-style lamb pittas

If you're looking for a quick, easy, Mediterranean-inspired dinner, these Greek-way lamb pittas are platonic. Ready in nether xxx minutes with a garlic yogurt sauce, they're perfect midweek.

Greek-style craven flatbreads with tzatziki

Chargrilled craven skewers and tzatziki wrapped in a warm flatbread is a top lunch or dinner, set up in 20 minutes. Keep information technology healthy with salad on the side.

Greek Chicken Flatbreads with Tzatziki Recipe

Lamb steaks with feta, tomato and rosemary

Feta adds a tangy season that really works with the sweetness lamb and juicy tomatoes in this Greek-style dish. Set up in 30 minutes, it makes a perfect, simple supper.

Very dirty martini

This twist on a dirty martini incorporates flavours of Kalamata olives with roasted Florina pepper and thyme. This recipe comes from Crouch End restaurant, Kalimera.