Trofi |
Food |
Alati |
Salt |
Alevri |
Flour |
Amigdalota |
A macaroon type cookie, often made on the islands and served at weddings and baptisms |
Arni |
Lamb. Usually roasted with potatoes or on the spit. |
Αstakos |
Lobster. Often cooked and served with pasta. |
Avgo |
Eggs |
Avgolemono |
A warm sauce made with eggs, lemon and broth. Served with meat, in soups, with vegetables. |
Arakas |
Peas, usually cooked in tomato sauce |
Bakaliaros |
Cod, most often consuming the salted preserved cod, which was desalted and cooked with tomato sauce or fried. |
Bakalavas |
Pastries made with phyllo, honey and walnuts |
Bamies |
Okra. Cooked with tomato sauce in a stew or roasted in the oven with tomatoes and olive oil. |
Bifteki |
Beef patty. Usually a mixture of ground beef along with herbs, breadcrumbs and egg. |
Biscoto |
Cookie |
Briam |
A mixture of vegetables including potato, zucchini, eggplant and onion stewed or roasted in olive oil |
Diples |
Pastry made with dough, fried in olive oil and dipped in honey |
Dolmades |
Rice or meat wrapped in vine leaves, often served with avgolemono |
Domata |
Tomato |
Domatokeftedes |
Tomato patties. Patties made with tomatoes, flour and herbs fried |
Elia |
Olive |
Elaiolado |
Olive Oil |
Eksohiko |
Meat cooked with peppers, tomatoes, onions and cheese in wax paper. |
Fava |
A puree made with fava beans which are yellow spit peas. |
Fakes |
Lentils, traditionally cooked in a thick soup with olive oil and served with vinegar. |
Fasolakia |
Green beans. They are usually cooked with tomato sauce and olive oil. |
Fasolia |
A general term for legumes. |
Feta |
Semi-soft cheese made from sheep and goat milk |
Frappe |
A popular iced coffee made from instant coffee |
Frouta |
Fruit |
Gala |
Milk |
Galaktobouriko |
A sweet made with phyllo and a custard filling |
Garides |
Shrimp |
Gavros |
Anchovies. They are either marinated in vinegar and salt or fried. |
Graviera |
A hard yellow and salty cheese made from sheep’s milk |
Horiatiki (salata) |
Translated as a village salad, in the U.S it is known as Greek salad. Made with tomatoes, cucumbers, green pepper, onion, feta and olive oil. |
Hirino |
Pork |
Hilopites |
A egg pasta usually cut in small squares. |
Horta |
Greens. Boiled and consumed with olive oil and lemon. |
Hortopita |
Savory pie made with thick phyllo dough and greens. |
Htapodi |
Octopus. Served grilled or marinated. |
Kafes |
Coffee |
Kalamarakia |
Calamari or squid. Often served fried as an appetizer. |
Karidopita |
Walnut cake. A cake made with walnuts and syrup |
Kefaloturi |
Hard yellow cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk |
Keftedes |
Small fried meatballs usually made from ground beef and ground pork. |
Kokoretsi |
Organ meats and sweetbread pieces are passed through a skewer and wrapped with the intestines (usually of lamb) then grilled in a spit or grill until crunchy. Traditionally prepared for Easter. |
Kolokithakia |
Zucchini |
Kolokithopita |
Zucchini savory pie |
Kolokithokeftedes |
Zucchini Patties |
Kokinisto |
Food made with tomato, from the word kokkino which means red. |
Kotopoulo |
Chicken |
Koulourakia |
Cookies, usually the shape of a ring or braided. |
Kounoupidi |
Cauliflower. Usually consumed cooked in tomato |
Kourabiedes |
Christmas butter cookies covered with powdered sugar. |
Krasi |
Wine |
Ladi |
May refer to any oil, but usually means olive oil |
Lahanika |
Vegetable |
Lahano |
Cabbage |
Lahanodolmades |
Dolmades made with cabbage |
Lathero |
Stewed dishes (sometimes roasted), usually vegetable based made with olive oil and tomato |
Mageiritsa |
A soup made from lamb offal and avgolemono (egg-lemon sauce), served traditionally on the eve of Easter. |
Makaronia |
Spaghetti |
Melitzanes |
Eggplant |
Melitzanosalata |
Eggplant dip |
Melomakarona |
Honey cookies. Cookies traditionally made for Christmas with honey, olive oil and walnuts. |
Mezes |
Small servings or tidbits of food to be served with a drink. |
Moustokouloura |
Cookies made from the must of wine. |
Mousakas |
Casserole made with potato, eggplant and ground beef. |
Moshari |
Veal |
Nero |
Water |
Nistisimo |
Foods that adhere to the Greek Orthodox Fast (nistia) |
Omeleta |
Omelet |
Orektiko |
Appetizer |
Ouzo |
Alcoholic drink of anise distillation |
Pagoto |
Ice Cream |
Papoutsakia |
A dish of baked eggplants stuffed with ground beef, cheese and tomato. |
Paximadi |
A rusk, usually referring to Cretan barley rusk. |
Pasteli |
A sweet made from sesame seeds and honey. |
Pastitsio |
A casserole made with pasta, ground beef, béchamel and tomato. |
Pita |
Refers to the savory pies made with phyllo dough but also to pita bread |
Piperia |
Peppers |
Psaria |
fish |
Ravani |
A cake made with semolina and syrup. |
Revithia |
Chickpeas |
Rigani |
Oregano |
Rizi |
Rice |
Saganaki |
Fried cheese |
Salata |
Salad |
Saltsa |
Sauce |
Sardela |
Sardines. Usually served grilled or cured |
Siko |
Fig |
Skordalia |
A garlic dip made with garlic, bread or potato and olive oil |
Soupa |
Soup |
Soutzoukakia |
Meat balls that are covered in spicy tomato sauce |
Souvlaki |
Skewers with pork meat (sometimes with chicken) |
Spanakopita |
Spinach pie made with phyllo and spinach and with or without feta cheese. |
Spanakorizo |
Dish made with spinach an rice cooked with a bit of tomato. |
Stifado |
Refers to a stew made with baby onions, tomatoes and spices, usually with veal but also made with rabbit or chicken. |
Taramosalata |
Dip made from a mixture of fish roe, bread and olive oil. |
Tiiganito |
Fried |
Tiri |
Cheese |
Tiropita |
Cheese savory pie usually made with feta cheese. |
Trahanas |
Pellet shaped pasta made with milk |
Tsoureki |
A sweet bread made with eggs and various spices. Similar to a brioche. Traditionally made for Easter. |
Tzatziki |
Dip made from yogurt, garlic, olive oil and dill. |
Vasilopita |
Cake made for New Years Day to celebrate Saint Basil. A coin is hidden in the cake, the person who gets the coin is believed to have good luck for the year. |
Vissino |
Sour cherry |
Vissinada |
Sour cherry drink, served often in the summer. |
Vodino |
Beef (cow) |
Vrasto |
Boiled |
Yemista |
Stuffed tomatoes, peppers and/or zucchini with just rice or herbs or with ground meat. |
Yiaourti |
Yogurt |
Yiovarelakia |
Beef and rice balls cooked in avgolemono sauce |
Yiouvetsi |
Casserole, usually a type of meat cooked with pasta |
Ylyko |
Sweet/dessert |
Ylyko Koutaliou |
Spoon sweets. Preserves of whole fruits that are served to guests on small spoon and plate. |
Zahari |
Sugar |
Zimi |
Dough |
Zomos |
Broth |