Greek
cuisine

Horiatiki

Moussaka is probably the main hot Greek dish! By the quality of the moussacks, in principle, you can evaluate the quality of any Greek tavern. What is moussaka? Moussaka is such a multi-layered eggplant and meat (or minced meat) casserole baked with bechamel sauce and topped with cheese crust. The whole thing is baked in the stove or oven and served in deep clay plates. Each cook has its own mousaki recipe. Sometimes they add potatoes, somewhere they can add mushrooms, somewhere tomatoes, somewhere they use beef, and somewhere mutton. Try it, it is very tasty (and very satisfying)!

Moussaka

Dzadziki

Dzadziki - the main cold appetizer, without which no Greek will sit at the table. In many taverns it is served without asking. Dzadziki is such a thick yogurt with garlic and ground cucumber, which is spread on bread like butter and eaten. Sometimes dzadziki served as a sauce for some meat dishes. This dish came to Greece from Turkey, where it is called jajik.

Only vegetables and butter, nothing superfluous - and it turned out an excellent, tasty, healthy and very simple dish, known to the whole world as "Greek salad". According to one of the legends, the Greek salad was invented by the owners of the taverns, as a very fast and simple dish that had to be served to hungry tourists while the main hot dish was being prepared. There was no time to tinker with a shred of vegetables and mixing of lettuce and Greeks, so they cut large and served without interfering. The tradition has taken root and now - this is the main feature of Greek salad.

Gyros

Souvlaki are small skewers on wooden skewers. As a rule, souvlaki are made from chicken, less often from lamb or pork, and for tourists they are made even from fish. The meat is cut into slices, marinated in a sauce, then dressed in skewers and cooked either over the fire, or in a pan, or in the oven. Souvlaki turn out to be quite dry, so they must be served with a sauce, such as yoghurt tzatziki. Souvlaki is considered a "Greek fast food", and it is prepared in all fast food restaurants in Greece.