Tsipoura

Grilled gilthead fish.

Arakas

Peas cooked in olive oil and tomato sause. Usually served with feta cheese.

Olives

Elies Kalamon.

Soutzoukakia

Kind of meatballs, only more spiced, deeped in tomato sause. The recipe has come from Smyrna, Turkey with the Christian immigrants.

Fassolakia

Green beans cooked in olive oil and tomato sause. Usually served with feta cheese.

Papoutsakia

Baked aubergine dish with a filling of mince and a Bechamel sauce top.

Eleolado

Olive oil is used throughout the world, but especially in the Mediterranean.
Greek cooking is mostly based on it.

Gemista

Tomatoes, peppers(and sometimes eggplant and zucchini) stuffed with rice.

Feta

A brined curd cheese from sheep milk. Varying amounts of goat milk may be added. Since 2005, feta has been a protected designation of origin product in the European Union.

Kourabiedes

Butter pastry that can be made with or without almonds. The pastry is sometimes made with brandy, and confectioner's sugar. Additional confectioner's sugar is then added on top of the cookie. It is eaten on special occasions, such as Christmas or christenings. They come in varied shapes mostly circles.

Melomakarona

Christmas small honey cakes.

Ouzo

Ouzo is an anise -flavored spirit that is widely consumed in Greece. Its taste is quite similar to raki. It can be consumed neat or mixed with water.

It usually goes with mezedes, mostly seafood.

Mezedes

Orektika is the formal name for appetizers and is often used as reference to eating a first course together with drinking ouzo.

Dolmadakia

Grapevine leaves stuffed with rice and vegetables, mince is also sometimes included.
They are most of the times served drenched with avgolemono sause.

Choriatiki

The so-called Greek Salad is known in Greece as Village/Country Salad (Choriatiki), essentially a tomato salad with cucumber, red onion, feta cheese, and kalamata olives, dressed with olive oil.

Melitzanosalata

Aubergine (eggplant) salad.

Saganaki

Fried cheese; the word "saganaki" means a small cooking pan, and can be applied to many other foods.

Spanakopita

Spinach, feta cheese, dill, spiring onion wrapped in phyllo pastry.

Taramas

Fish roe mixed with boiled potatoes or moistened breadcrumbs, olive oil and lemon juice.

Patsas

A tripe soup.

Tzatziki

Yoghurt with cucumber and garlic puree, used as a dip.

Tyropita (individual)

 

Very common take away fast food especially for breakfast.

Tyropita

Cheese (usually feta) wrapped in phyllo pastry and baked in the oven.

Avgolemono soup

'Egg-lemon' soup: chicken, meat, vegetable, or fish broth thickened with eggs, lemon juice, and rice.

Fakes

A lentil soup and one of the famous everyday Greek soups, usually served with vinegar and feta cheese.

Fassolada

A bean soup defined as the traditional Greek dish. It is made of beans, tomatoes, carrot, celery and a lot of olive oil.

Magiritsa

A traditional Easter soup made with lamb offal and spring onions, and thickened with avgolemono.

Lachanodolmades

Cabbage rolls, stuffed with rice and mince, spiced with various herbs and served with avgolemono sauce or simmered in a light tomato broth.

Kokoretsi

Seasoned lamb innards.

Keftedes

Fried meatballs with oregano and parsley.

Moussakas

Eggplant casserole. There are other variations besides eggplant, such as zucchini, but the eggplant version melitzanes moussaka is the most popular.

Pastitsio

A baked pasta dish with a filling of mince and a Bechamel sauce top.

Pita - Gyros

 

Meat roasted on a vertically turning spit and served with sauce (often tzatziki) and garnishes (tomato, onions) on pita bread; a popular fast food and take away.

Souvlaki

Anything grilled on a skewer (lamb, chicken, pork, swordfish, shrimp). Most common is lamb, pork or chicken, often marinated in oil, salt, pepper, oregano and lemon.

Bougatsa

 

Phyllo pastry filled with cream.

Baklavas

Phyllo pastry layers filled with nuts and drenched in syrup.

Galaktoboureko

Custard between layers of phyllo. The name derives from the Greek "ghala", meaning milk, and from the Turkish börek, meaning filled, thus meaning "filled with milk."

Loukoumades

Similar to doughnuts, loukoumades are essentially fried balls of dough drenched in honey and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Loukoumi

A confection made from starch and sugar, essentially similar to the Turkish delight. A variation from Serres is called Akanes.

Tsoureki

  A traditional Christmas and Easter sweet bread also known as "Lambropsomo" or "Paschalia (Easter bread), flavored with vanilla and mastc.

Greek frappé coffee

 A foam-covered drink derived from spray-dried instant coffee that is consumed cold.