SnacksTiropita (Greek Cheese Pie)
Feta and ricotta between layers of filo brushed with butter, one sheet at a time. The work is repetitive and the payoff is a top that shatters.
1 hr 15 minServes 8Medium
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MainsLamb Chops with Oregano and Lemon
Eight minutes in the pan, and most of the work is standing the chops on their fat edge first. Render that strip properly and the whole dish tastes better.
30 minServes 4Easy
SaladsGreek Village Salad (Horiatiki)
No lettuce — a real horiatiki never has any. Chunky tomato, cucumber and pepper under a whole slab of feta, with nothing but oil and oregano.
15 minServes 4Easy
BreakfastGreek Yoghurt Bowl with Nuts and Berries
Barely a recipe, but toasting the nuts and macerating half the berries turns a bowl of yoghurt into something you would actually order.
10 minServes 2Easy
MainsGrilled Shark Steak with Chilli and Lime
A dense, meaty steak that grills more like beef than fish. Soak it in milk first — that one step is what removes the ammonia note shark is notorious for.
45 minServes 4Medium
SnacksFried Sardines with Lemon
Whole sardines in seasoned flour, shallow-fried hard and hit with lemon. Cheap, sustainable, and better than most things three times the price.
25 minServes 4Easy
SnacksSmoky Roasted Chickpeas
The trick is seasoning them after they come out of the oven, not before — spices added early scorch long before the chickpeas turn crisp.
40 minServes 4Easy
SnacksWhipped Butter Bean Dip
Butter beans blitzed far longer than feels necessary, until the texture goes from grainy to genuinely silky. The lemon goes in at the very end.
15 minServes 6Easy
SaladsCrispy Chickpea and Herb Salad
More herbs than leaves, with chickpeas fried until they rattle in the pan. A lunch that holds up for hours instead of wilting in twenty minutes.
25 minServes 2Easy
SoupsRoasted Tomato and White Bean Soup
Roasting the tomatoes first concentrates everything good about them. The beans go in whole and half-blended, so the soup is creamy without any cream.
55 minServes 4Easy
MainsCharred Lemon Chicken with Orzo
Chicken thighs roasted over orzo that cooks in its own stock, finished with lemon halves charred until they taste almost caramelised.
45 minServes 4Medium