Greek desserts recipes
17 Greek desserts recipes, each written for this site and each saying what its method turns on.
- Amygdalopita, sourced from Greece. An almond and semolina syrup cake soaked in two goes rather than one, because semolina takes syrup more slowly than breadcrumb does. Egg, vegetarian.
- Amygdalota, sourced from Greece. Almond sweets shaped and dried rather than baked, where the only cooking is a brief set in a low oven. Egg, vegetarian.
- Baklava, sourced from Greece. Layered filo and nuts where cold syrup meets hot pastry, which is the only combination that does not go soggy. vegetarian.
- Bougatsa, sourced from Greece. A semolina custard in filo with no syrup anywhere, cut into squares with a blade and dusted at the moment it is served. Egg, vegetarian.
- Diples, sourced from Greece. Unleavened dough rolled until it is translucent and folded in the hot oil with two forks, then dipped in honey. Egg, vegetarian.
- Fanouropita, sourced from Greece. A spiced cake with no egg, butter or milk in it, where orange juice and bicarbonate do the lifting. vegan.
- Galaktoboureko, sourced from Greece. A hot semolina custard poured into filo and baked, so the pastry sets around a filling that is already thick. Egg, vegetarian.
- Halva, sourced from Greece. Semolina toasted in oil until it smells of biscuits, then flooded with hot syrup in one go and turned out of a mould. vegan.
- Karydopita, sourced from Greece. A syrup cake built on walnuts and dry breadcrumbs instead of flour, which is what lets it take up syrup without collapsing. Egg, vegetarian.
- Koulourakia, sourced from Greece. Twisted butter biscuits that must be shaped from cold dough, baked until deep gold rather than pale. Egg, vegetarian.
- Kourabiedes, sourced from Greece. Almond shortbread buried in icing sugar while still warm, where the butter is beaten far longer than seems reasonable. Egg, vegetarian.
- Loukoumades, sourced from Greece. A wet yeast batter dropped into hot oil, where the batter is too loose to handle and that is exactly right. vegetarian.
- Melomakarona, sourced from Greece. Oil-based biscuits dunked hot into cold syrup, where the temperature difference is the only thing that gets the honey inside them. vegetarian.
- Pastafrola, sourced from Greece. A soft biscuit-dough tart with a lattice on top, where the dough is handled as little as possible and the jam is boiled down first. Egg, vegetarian.
- Pasteli, sourced from Greece. Two ingredients boiled to a precise temperature and cut while hot, where the thermometer is the whole recipe. vegetarian.
- Portokalopita, sourced from Greece. A cake with no flour in it at all, built from filo dried out and torn into shreds, then soaked in orange syrup. Egg, vegetarian.
- Vasilopita, sourced from Greece. An orange butter cake with a wrapped coin baked into it, where the coin goes in from underneath after the batter is in the tin. Egg, vegetarian.
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