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Chickpea soup with lemon and onions!

It’s so cold outside and  we stay home, so it’s time to try delicious and full of vitamin recipes!

Let’s prepare it!

Chickpea soup

Chickpea soup

Ingredients:

One tea cup of dried chickpeas (~160g).

Half an onion~20g.

Some garlic

Two small cups extra virgin olive oil ~150mL (Cretan origin preferably!).

Two table spoons of flour.

One lemon (the juice) ~40g.

Salt and pepper.

One-two Cretan Rusks (Dakos type) ~40g.

Preparation:

Place chickpeas in unsalted water 12-18 hours before. In a pot warm some water. Then add the chickpeas and wait to remove the foam from their boiling. Wait for 45 min to 1 hour. Check if they softened. If yes add the onions chopped in small pieces, lemon (1/2 lemon) and 2 small cups olive oil. Leave for 5-10 mins. Mix the flour with the other 1/2 of lemon juice. Add it to the soup. Add salt and pepper. Its ready to serve.

Enjoy it!

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A winter soup full of vitamins!

It’s so cold outside and  we stay home, so it’s time to try delicious and full of vitamin recipes! One of them is the potato soup, full of  fiber-rich, vitamin C and B6.

Let’s prepare it!

Potato soup

Potato soup

We need

500 g of potatoes

1 carrot

1 leasso

1 onion

100 ml yoghurt

100 ml of milk

500 ml of vegetable juice

Nutmeg Carey , Salt, pepper and extra vergin olive oil

Do it

We clean the vegetables, cut them into small pieces and cook them for 5 to 10 minutes in oil until they soften. We add the spices and let them boil for 25 to 30 minutes. We add the milk and yogurt , and we hit the soup with the rabblender until it takes the form we want!

Enjoy it!

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Homemade cookies with molasses!

The most delicious and wholesome, of our own cookies, that we make in love and the most pure materials, to make our coffee and tea extremely accompanying!

Homemade cookies

Homemade cookies

Let’s prepare this amazing recipe!

We need

  • 1 cup of olive oil
  • 1 cup of molasses
  • 1 cup of sugar
  • 1 tea spoon of soda
  • 1 tea spoon of cinnamon
  • 1 kg of flour
  • some ouzo

Do it

We combine  the olive oil, sugar, cinnamon and we dissolve the soda in the ouzo. We add it to the liquid materials.

We throw the flour kneading until we have a well-made dough that doesn’t fit into the hands. We roll the cookies in a round shape and hang them in sheet metal sheets.

We bake in an oven at 170 degrees C for 40 minutes. Try it and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it!

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Vegetables in the oven-The Greek tourlou

A wonderful summer food, with fresh vegetables that is now their season! With good ingredients and good Greek olive oil, our recipe takes off! Let’s see what we will need…

Greek tourlou

Greek tourlou

We will need:

4 aubergines

4 zucchini

2 green peppers

3 carrots

3 medium potatoes

2 ripe tomatoes

1⁄2 box of concentrated tomato juice

2 medium onions

chopped parsley

a teaspoon of olive oil

Execution:

Wash and dry the vegetables well. Slice the aubergines, zucchini, carrots, peppers and potatoes. Put all the ingredients in a large and deep pan. Preheat the oven for 10 minutes at 180C. Squeeze the tomatoes with a strainer. Drizzle the ingredients with the tomato juice, oil, 1 cup of water and the prepared tomato juice (you can add less at the beginning and add during cooking, depending on how red you want it). Add salt and pepper, parsley, a little oregano and mix. Bake at 200 degrees C for one and a half hours.

Bon Appetit!

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Delicious chicken legs with spices!

We have a delicious recipe for you, with few calories (it’s also summer after all) and a lot of flavor, since it is full of our favorite spices!

So…how do we make juicy chicken legs with spices? Here is the recipe!

Chicken recipe

Chicken recipe

Ingredients:

10 chicken legs

2 kg parsley

2 kg curry

2 kg garlic (powder)

1 1/2 kg salt

1 kg pepper

2 kg honey

1 tbsp  Greek olive oil

Execution:

Put all our ingredients in a pan and mix, make a mixture and spread on the booties. Bake at 250 ° C for 45-55 minutes. Garnish with a little lemon.

Bon Appetit!

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Delicious sardines in the oven with ouzo and tomato!

Today we present to you an eminently summer food, whose intense smells will keep you asking for more!

This is no other than our favorite sardines that, apart from its amazing taste, have many nutritional properties!

Add spices and ouzo and just love them!

Grilled sardines with ouzo and tomato

Sardines in the oven with ouzo

Sardines in the oven with ouzo

We will need:

Sardines 1 kg

Olive oil 5-6 tablespoons

2 tomatoes, peeled

Sweet paprika 1/2 teaspoon

Salt-pepper

Onion dried 1 1/2 sliced

Garlic 2 cloves, sliced

Ouzo 1/2 glass of wine

Parsley 1/2 bunch, chopped

Execution:

Clean the sardines, remove the heads, wash them, season with salt and drain.

Put the olive oil in a shallow pot to heat, add onion and garlic, sauté for a while and then add the paprika, pepper, salt, ouzo, peeled tomatoes and simmer for about 15 minutes.

Place the sardines in a baking pan, pour over the sauce and bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes (depending on the oven). Towards the end sprinkle with the chopped parsley and they are ready to enjoy.

Bon Appetit!

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