Saganaki

My wife's favorite!

Ingredients:
50 grams butter
60 ml olive oil
300 grams feta (or kefalotiri)
A large bowl of iced water
Flour, seasoned with salt and black pepper for coating the cheese

How to cook:

Heat the butter and oil together in a frying pan. Meanwhile cut the feta up to narrow fingers and put them in a bowl of iced water for several seconds. This will make the flour stick to the cheese and help to form the crust.

Put the cheese in the seasoned flour and fry until crisp and golden. The cheese will be melting inside. You have to eat it while hot. Kali oreksi!

Halloumi Stuffed Red Pepper

Ingredients:

4 red peppers
200 grams block halloumi cheese, sliced into 4
1 red chilli, finely chopped
1 teaspoon dried oregano
4 black olives, cut into slivers
1 lemon, zest and juice

How to cook:

Halloumi is a kind of cheese (salty one) from Cyprus. I like it a lot. Especially when we make breakfast with my wife on Sundays. I just grill it and eat with fried eggs. 

Grill the red peppers until they begin to soften. Open out each red pepper by making a cut down one side and trim the tops and bottoms off so you end up with a strip. Put a slice of halloumi in the center of each strip. Sprinkle over some lemon zest and juice, divide the chilli, oregano and olive between them, then roll the red pepper around the halloumi. It doesn't matter if the cheese sticks out at each end. Tie the rolls with some kitchen string that you have soaked in water and press down with the palm of your hand so they flatten slightly. Grill the red peppers on both sides for 5 minutes. Kali oreksi!

Feta Stuffed Jalapeno Poppers

Feta is a kind of Greek cheese. It is like white cheese. You can use different kinds of cheese, but with this one I am going to use feta. 

Ingredients:

12 jalapenos, halved; pith and  do not forget to remove the seeds

300 grams feta

60 grams cream cheese

3 tablespoons honey, plus more for drizzling

Pinch of salt

How to cook:

Preheat oven to 400 and line a baking sheet with foil. Cut peppers in half lengthwise and remove the pith and seeds. Place the peppers onto the baking sheet. Mix feta and cream cheese in a bowl and put in microwave for 20-30 seconds, until softened. Add honey and salt and stir until combined. Transfer the mixture to the bottom corner of a large zip-top bag, snip the corner off, and pipe the filling into the peppers. Bake for 10 minutes and then turn the broiler on for 1-2 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool a few minutes.  Transfer the peppers to a platter, lightly drizzle a little honey over the peppers. Kali oreksi!

Aubergine filled with shrimps and octopus



Ingredients:

1 aubergine

100 grams shrimp

100 grams octopus

1 onion

1 clove of garlic

1 piece of red pepper

1 piece of green pepper

1 tomato

50 grams of grated cheese

How to cook:
 

Cut the aubergine into two pieces and fry. After they become cold, clean inside. 

Cut onion, garlic, peppers, domato and octopus into small pieces. First, saute onions, then garlic, peppers, octopus, tomato and finally shrimps. Fill the aubergine with this mixture. Put grated cheese on top and cook in the oven for 15 minutes. Kali oreksi