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Greek Recipes

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Crete offers up some great recipes and meals taken from the many Taverna's dotted across the island of Crete, many of these Taverna's offer home cooked meals prepared for years with the recipes handed down through the generations from mother to daughter.  Holidays To Crete has pulled together a select few of our favourites recipes for you to cook at home.

You will find the Cretan recipes have a good balance of ingredients, and although may seem fat laden in places work out to offer an excellent diet, and as almost all recipes are cooked in olive oil, it overs a great reduction in saturated fats you find in sunflower oils.

This recipe is broken down into description, ingredients and cooking method.



 

Chicken baked with olives is an excellent variation on just cooking chicken in a sauce and is a firm favourite in Greek cooking.  

Try this dish served with Mediterranean vegetables.  This is one of the easier recipes to master when cooking Greek style.

1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil

2 medium onions, finely chopped

2 leeks, white parts only, finely chopped

1 bay leaf

1 teaspoon finely fresh chopped thyme

1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh oregano

3/4 cup sherry vinegar

1 quart water

1 free-range chicken, weighing about 6 pounds, cut into 12 pieces

1 cup green olives

1 cup black olives

1. Heat 1/4 cup oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Sauté the onions, leeks, bay leaf, thyme, and oregano for 8-10 minutes, or until the onions and leeks are lightly browned. Pour in the vinegar, water, and remaining 1/4 cup oil.

2. Add the chicken to the saucepan. Cover and cook over low heat for 50 minutes, or until tender. Add the olives 5 minutes before the chicken is cooked. Remove the bay leaf. Bone the chicken and serve hot with beans.