Food-What To Try

What to Try

• Avranas(wild asparagus): Wild asparagus roasted with olive oil and onions and topped with flour and lemon juice.
• Stuffed Easter Lamb: Lemon roast stuffed with rice, pine nuts, raisins, cloves, cinnamon and garnished with baked potatoes.
• Whole meat patties: A kind of appetizer with ground beef, cracked wheat and tomato.
• Stuffed vegetables: Tomatoes, zucchini, capsicums  and eggplants stuffed with rice, onions and minced meat.
• Casserole: Braised meat with potatoes in the oven, served with olive oil, fresh tomato, onion garlic and wine. Traditional village Kalithies recipe, served mainly at  the weddings.
• Karavoli (snails) giachnistoi: Snails boiled in a pot with onions, olive oil, tomato, pepper, bay leaves and cumin.
• Goat stew: Traditional recipe, Psinthos village. Goat traditionally cooked with rice and cinnamon.
• Traditional Easter Soup: Rhodian soup. Eaten  at the dawn hours after the Resurrection and the church service.
• Baked red pumpkin: Slices of red pumpkin, onion and mint baked in the oven.
• Zucchini with eggs: Zucchini fried with eggs.
• Zucchini patties: Fried patties with zucchini and cheese.
• Koulouria: It is a kind of pasta. Served with plenty of grated cheese. In many villages of Rhodes it is traditional wedding food. Available in traditional festivals of the island.
• Rabbit stew: Rabbit with onions in marinade.
• Lacan: Beef or goat  or lamb meat with wheat braised in the oven at  a Lacan (clay pot with a lid).
• Matsi: Handmade pasta cooked with plenty of cheese and fresh butter. It may be accompanied with cooked lentils, chickpeas and beans.
• Milla and Tsirigia: From the fat of the pig that has a little meat. Placed over  low heat until the fat has melted completely. Tsirigia is the cut  that remains in the strainer when the fat has drained. Milla is a pure fat and replaces butter in pasta, in risotto, in pies, fried eggs and other food. It gives great flavor. It’s eaten spread on bread with sugar or salt.
• Dolmades: Cabbage, stuffed with minced pork and oatmeal. Accompanied by egg and lemon sauce.
• Chicken stuffed with noodles:chicken stuffed with rice, liver, kidney, onion, spices and garnished with noodles.
• Pirgouri or Pergouri: Whole wheat cooked with Bay leaves and Bitter Orange leaves. It is used like rice for pilaf and soups It is delicious with baked pork in the oven.
• Pirgouri with Tsirigia: Whole wheat cooked with porkfat and drippings. It becomes like a pilaf.
• Pitaroudia: A kind of fried appetizer with chickpeas, onion and tomato.
• Pouggia: Pies filled with greens.
• Salad with Variety of Vegetables: Grilled vegetables accompanied with freshly ground pepper, yoghurt and white cheese.
• Liver “Flegmoni”: Tasty appetizer. Cooked liver with olive oil. Very common in the villages.
• Trahanas: Wheat and sheep or goats milk, made in August with the new crop of wheat. It is a nutritious soup accompanied by  small pieces of cheese.
• Barbounofasoula: Red beans with oil, chopped parsley, onion, tomato, pepper and salt.
• Octopus: Fried patties with ground, cooked octopus.
• Fish Marinada: Fish marinated with olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and rosemary.
• Fried Fish  with fresh tomato sauce and whole wheat: Casserole. Fried fish accompanied by fresh tomatoes and whole wheat.

• Almond white: Marzipan sweets from blanched almonds, lemon juice and rosewater, fashioned apple or pear- shaped, wrapped in sugar. An offering for the wedding guests.
• Katimeria: Small rolls with a hole in the middle filled with honey. Eaten hot or cold. After some time they get softer and tastier.
• Melekouni: It is a local sweet of the Dodecanese with sesame, almonds, herbs and honey that is offered with the wedding invitations, wedding preparations and on the wedding day.
• Moschopougkia: Sweet from walnuts, whitewashed almonds, grated nutmeg, sugar and rosewater.
• Takakia: Pastry filled with walnuts, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. The Sweet of St Andrew in many villages of Rhodes, the engaged girls offer to the grooms and best men.
• Pancakes: Dough from wheat flour fried in plenty of hot oil. Served with honey or sugar and cinnamon.
• Fanouripita (St Fanourios’ Cake): St Fanourios’ worship started in Rhodes, where, according to tradition, the Saint’s icon was found, during the excavation of an old temple, outside the city walls.
  People that have lost something traditionally bake the Saint a “Fanouropita” and ask the Saint to show them, to reveal for them what has been lost. “Fanouropita” is a cake suitable for fasting also baked at the feast of the Saint (August 27th) and offered to those partaking in the feast as blessing.
  It is made of flour, wine, water, seed oil, sugar, cinnamon and orange juice.