The following is a simple recipe for cooking chicken a little bit differently and fits perfectly to all those people that want to try different combinations
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Aubergine pie with Feta Cheese
Aubergine is by far my favourite ingredient of the summer and one of my favourites in general . So I was wondering how it would taste in a pie with feta cheese. It didn’t disappoint.
The following pie is so easy to make that you don’t need any huge experience. If you use ready made phyllo pastry then it would be piece of cake.
Aubergines are the summer ingredient of choice and one of the basic ones in Mediterranean cuisine. Aubergine together with onions and feta cheese together with sesame on top will make you forget spinach pie and all other pies. Even if I do like spinach pie … a lot…
Ingredients for Aubergine
- 3 big aubergines cut in cubes
- 2 big onions in slices
- 2 eggs
- 200gr of feta cheese
- Thyme and Oregano
- 1.5 cup of semolina
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- Sesame seeds
How to cook Greek style Aubergine pie
In a small pot we add the aubergines in a bit of olive and we stir them good until they get a good color all around.
Add the onions, salt and pepper and the semolina and stir them until we don’t have any more juices.
When the mixture is cold, add the eggs and the feta cheese together and stir them to become one mixture. Add the seasoning also.
In a nice deep pan, add the first pastry sheet. Put all the mixture and spread it nicely. Add the second sheet on top and close nicely the edges. Put the sesame seeds on top and spread them everywhere.
Put it in the oven and bake it for around an hour in 180c . Timings differ depending on the oven.
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Roasted Sweet potatoes with Feta cheese
Obviously sweet potatoes were something that i learned during my years in UK but the combination with feta cheese and chickpeas make it a great lunch for every day.
Chickpeas is something that we used to eat mainly as a chickpea soup but obviously that is not the only way to taste them. I guess if you mix feta, with sweet potato and chickpeas you will get a healthy and nutritious dinner but that wasn’t what attracted me to this. What i do like is how easy it is to make and ideal for everyday of the week when you are rushing after work.
The mix just allows the main ingredients to stand out, and they all complement each other perfectly. To make the recipe faster i use already boiled chickpeas.
INGREDIENTS
- 1kg of sweet potatoes. The biggest you can find
- 2 teaspoons of olive oil
- Salt, Pepper
- 350gr Chickpeas already boiled.
- Juice from 1 lemon
- 1 tea spoon of cumin
- Coriander
- 150gr feta cheese
Sweet Potatoes with feta cheese Method
- Preheat the oven in 200c . Put some olive oil on the top side of the sweet potato. Afterwards place them with the flesh looking down in a baking pan.
- Cook them for 45 minutes or until the flesh is soft enough
- Remove them from the oven and with a spoon make space in there flesh, removing if needed some of the flesh and keeping it in a bowl.
- Mix the chickpeas with the feta cheese, cumin and the lemon juice adding as much salt as we like. -Also add any flesh from the sweet potato was left
- Add them in the sweet potatoes and make sure to sprinkle a bit of feta on top also. Bake them for 10 more minutes until the feta cheese starts to melt.
- When you are done, sprinkle with some olive oil and add a bit more of coriander. Enjoy!
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Greek Pasta Recipe with Beef
Pasta might be the most traditional ingredient you can have in Italy but its also really popular in Greece, with some small variations.
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Souvlaki: A bit of History
Ancient Delight, immortal in the passage of time. Perhaps the most basic delicacy of Greek gastronomy, but also one of the most famous ones! Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the souvlaki.
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