Non-Fasting Recipes

Feast-day recipes containing meat, dairy, and eggs — for Pascha, Bright Week, and other days when the fast is lifted.

Greek Non Fasting

Tsoureki — Greek Paschal Sweet Bread

The Greek Paschal bread — a tall, braided loaf enriched with butter, eggs, and scented with two distinctive spices: m...

Greek Non Fasting

Galaktoboureko — Phyllo Custard Pie

A warm, vanilla-scented semolina custard wrapped in buttery phyllo, baked until golden, then drenched in citrus syrup...

Greek Non Fasting

Gemista Kalamari — Stuffed Squid

Fresh squid tubes filled with a rice-based stuffing enriched with feta, tomato, and pine nuts, then braised slowly in...

Greek Non Fasting

Stifado — Greek Beef Stew with Pearl Onions

A slow-cooked stew of beef (traditionally rabbit or hare) with a pile of sweet pearl onions, tomato, red wine, and wa...

Greek Non Fasting

Keftedes — Greek Meatballs

Greek meatballs, seasoned with mint, oregano, and cinnamon, bound with stale bread soaked in red wine, then pan-fried...

Greek Non Fasting

Yemista — Stuffed Tomatoes and Peppers

Whole tomatoes and peppers stuffed with a fragrant filling of meat, rice, herbs, and pine nuts, then baked in olive o...

Greek Non Fasting

Avgolemono — Greek Egg-Lemon Chicken Soup

The Greek mother of comforting soups — poached chicken and rice in broth, finished with a silken thickening of egg yo...

Greek Non Fasting

Kotopita — Greek Chicken Pie

Chicken and leek pie wrapped in phyllo — the Greek version of chicken pot pie. Cooked chicken bathed in a béchamel-li...

Greek Non Fasting

Tiropita — Cheese Pie

The sister dish to spanakopita — phyllo layered around a filling of three Greek cheeses, eggs, and herbs. Richer and ...

Greek Non Fasting

Spanakopita — Spinach and Feta Pie

Layers of shatteringly crisp phyllo dough wrapped around a savoury filling of wilted spinach, herbs, and feta. Spanak...

Greek Non Fasting

Souvlaki — Grilled Pork Skewers

Greek street food at its finest — cubes of marinated pork threaded onto skewers and grilled over coals, served in a w...

Greek Non Fasting

Pastitsio — Greek Baked Pasta

Greece's other great casserole — layered long pasta, spiced meat sauce, and béchamel. Similar to moussaka in architec...

Greek Non Fasting

Moussaka — Layered Eggplant and Lamb Casserole

Greece's most famous casserole — layers of browned eggplant, spiced lamb meat sauce, and a cloud of béchamel, baked u...

Greek Non Fasting

Kokoretsi — Lamb Offal Wrapped in Intestines

A Greek Paschal delicacy that polarizes — organ meats (liver, heart, lung, spleen) threaded onto a spit and wrapped w...

Greek Non Fasting

Arni Psito — Roasted Paschal Lamb

The centerpiece of the Greek Easter table — a whole spring lamb roasted slowly until the meat falls off the bone. In ...

Greek Non Fasting

Magiritsa — Paschal Lamb Offal Soup

The traditional soup eaten at midnight after the Paschal Liturgy, magiritsa breaks the forty-day Lenten fast with lam...