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Gemista! A spectacular Greek style risotto!

Gemista are vegetables usually tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini and eggplant filled with rice (sometimes with ground meat) and baked in the oven!

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To make this easy recipe for gemista, pick your favorite vegetables and follow the instruction bellow!

Ingredients: (for five persons)
7 tomatoes (600g)
3 red peppers horn shaped (200g)
1 eggplant (200g)
1 potato (200g)
1 onion (160g)
Rice (250g)
Extra virgin olive oil (250-300mL)
Dill (100g)
Parsley (100g)
Salt 1 table spoon
Black pepper ½ tea spoon
Oregano ½ table spoon
Water ½ glass
Cooking time: 45 min – 60 min.
Temperature: 200 Celsius

Preparation:
Wash carefully all veggies. Cut off their top not very deep but neither too shallow, just enough to remain and to use later as cap.Keep the tops.

With a spoon or another kitchen tool remove the flesh from the vegetables (tomatoes, eggplant, and red peppers) , not the potato. Keep the flesh of tomato.

Dispose that of eggplant and peppers. Be careful to leave enough flesh and skin for a firm and stable shell to be filled with rice. Wash your rice and add it in a bowl.

Chop the removed tomato flesh in small pieces and add them to the bowl. Optionally you can chop a medium carrot and add it to the mixture, or you can skip that. After adding the chopped tomato, add the salt, the black pepper, parsley, dill, the ¾ of the olive oil, the oregano and chop also the onion and add it. Then mix thoroughly.

Take a medium-large baking pan with walls high enough for the fluids that will be added. Place the empty vegetables in the pan, salt them, and carefully fill them, but not to the top, about a little bit more than the half way. Place the caps then, the potato sliced, and add the water.

At the end, rinse with the remaining olive oil on top the whole pan. Its ready to cook. Preheat the oven and place the food for 45mins to an hour at 200 celsius. For the first 30 mins put aluminium foil and cover the pan. After remove it and leave it for the remaining time uncovered. Take them out and leave it for 10 mins to cool off. Now its ready to serve. Your serving should be accompanied by either Feta cheese or Greek yoghurt.

Bon Appétit!

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Olive the blessed!

The olive was the symbol of the goddess Athena. According to ancient Greek mythology, the home of the olive is Athens and the first olive tree was planted by Athena on the Acropolis. Through our history we discover that the olive tree is not only a symbol of peace, wisdom, fertility, prosperity, glory, but offers us protection, inspiration and food.

The fruit of the olive tree is very important because it produces olive oil. Olives are rich in nutrients. For many years, they have been the most popular snack of rural Mediterranean populations, accompanying greasy food, salads and many appetizing dishes.

It is the absolute Greek “superfood” and for that reason we should consume almost daily olives. 10 olives before a meal can reduce appetite by 20%.

Moderate consumption of olives in a balanced diet is an ally to beauty and human health.

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Organic products, compared to conventional ones, are much healthier because they did not use hormones, vitamin fertilizers or antibiotics.

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The nutrients provided by a biological product can be taken in full without the corresponding intake of chemical residues. They are safe for our health as they do not have fertilizer and pesticide residues that are likely cumulatively and over time can cause a lot of health problems, especially in children.

They also have a decreased concentration of nitrates.Research has shown that about 70% of the nitrate ions consumed by the average consumer come from vegetables and a significant proportion of water.

Useful information to the consumer

Consumers should be very careful when buying organic products.

I) They should prefer packaged foods organic products, while organic products are only sold to organic folk and organic food stores.

II) vegetables and fruits must be sold only in their season

(Iii) there must be, in a conspicuous place available to the consumer, the certificates of the quantity, date and type of each batch of production.

IV) attention to << monkey >> organic products. Traditional products are not always organic unless there is evidence that they are organic farming products.

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In conclusion we can say that products that are grown without chemicals, without fertilizers and on healthy soils are much more nutritious. Scientific research has proven it and the opposite is hard to support!

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