Green beans with glykokoloko (sweet marrow)

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Apohtin

A type of cured meat. It is consumed as a snack or cooked with green beans and other vegetables.

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Apohtin with green beans and potatoes

A dish from the area of Pitsilia. In order to desalinate the apohtin, it is boiled and fried before cooking with green beans and potatoes.

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Beans with kolokíthi (sweet marrow)

Glykokóloko (sweet marrow) blends nicely with boiled beans. Another common combination in Cypriot cuisine is with blackeyed beans (louvi).

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Beans with minced meat

A tasty dish that can be cooked either on the stove or in the oven. The minced meat and beans are cooked in a rich tomato sauce.

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Beans with wild greens and sausage

The legumes, greens and sausage are cooked in a tomato and onion sauce. A recipe based on ingredients of the traditional Cypriot cuisine, combined in an original way.

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Chicken with green beans

Chicken and green beans yahni (combined in tomato sauce).

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Croquettes with beans

Contemporary recipe with dry beans, which are boiled and pureed. The puree mixture is used to make croquettes, which are then wrapped in breadcrumbs and baked in the oven.

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Dried green beans with quinces

"Boil the green beans and before they are completely cooked add the quinces." (Panagiota Ioannou, Kyperounda)

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Eftaloitiko fai (yahni)

Green beans with dried beans and potatoes, cooked in a tomato sauce (yahni). This dish was made only every Holy Thursday. In the old days, people used to consume oil on Holy Thursday, which is why…

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Eliada

This dish is served with fish. It used to be prepared in Pitsilia area on Palm Sunday.

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Fasolia gigantes me loukanika - Giant baked beans with sausage

A well-known Greek recipe, prepared with traditional and healthy ingredients of the Cypriot cuisine.

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Keftedes - patties with butternut squash.

A vegetarian variation of the keftedes recipe, using butternut squash. The recipe comes from the monastery of Agia Irene in Limassol, and is related to the monastic diet in Cyprus.

Foods

Kolokopitta, kolokoti - butternut squash pie

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Kolokotes - Butternut squash pies

Usually, the preparation of kolokotes was and still is associated with the fasting period before Christmas and Easter, since they are a delicious, fasting dish.

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Kolokotes Maratheftikes- Butternut squash pies

A special variation of a well-known and beloved Cypriot pies with butternut squash. In Marathasa, kolokotes were usually savoury.

Foods

Kolokouthkia - zucchini

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Kolokouthkia me t’afka - Zucchini with eggs

Easy, quick and nutritious dish that the hostess would prepare for guests arriving on short notice. The recipe comes from Pano Amiantos, but it is made throughout the country.

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Louvi (black-eyed beans) with butternut squash

A dish, which was prepared for financial reasons, when there was leftover food from the previous day's meal. The recipe comes from Yermasogia, a suburb of Limassol.

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Louvi (black-eyed beans) with hiromeri (smoked pork ham)

A unique recipe with a combination of ingredients inspired by the traditional Cypriot cuisine.

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Pickled green beans

" Clean and wash the green beans. Cut them in half and put them in the vinegar." (“Kyperounda")

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Potatoes yahni with zucchini and fennel

Sauté the onion, celery and fennel lightly. Dissolve the tomato paste in a glass of water and pour it over the potatoes and zucchini. (Kyperounda)

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Snails yahni

Snails with potatoes or zucchini in tomato sauce. Searching for and gathering snails was particularly common after rain, while their consumption was more closely linked to periods of fasting.

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Spoon sweets - Butternut squash

A delightful spoon sweet with its characteristic shape of a spring.

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Stuffed zucchini flowers

In this recipe, the same mixture of minced meat and rice as in the traditional koupepia is used as a stuffing of zucchini flowers. A favourite version of Cypriot stuffed vegetables.

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Stuffed zucchini flowers (vegetarian)

Vegetarian variant of Cypriot stuffed vine leaves. The filling of the flowers is based on rice or a combination of rice and bulgur wheat.

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Vegetarian koupepia - stuffed vine leaves

A variety of vegetables such as carrots, zucchini, tomatoes and onions or even mushrooms are mixed with rice to form the stuffing of vine leaves. A vegetarian dish suitable for fasting.

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Yahni beans in a clay pot

"...we put them in a clay pot. Add the sliced onion, the chopped celery, the tomato juice, olive oil, salt and pepper and water to cover them." (Elisavet Panagiotou, Kornos)

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Zamboúshes

Zamboushes are a type of boureki or pie of the Cypriot traditional cuisine. Depending on the season, they are filled with poppy shoots, fennel or yellow pumpkin.

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Zucchini with quinces

"Cut the zucchini into small pieces and add them in the pot. Pour the tomato juice, water, salt and diced quinces into the pot." (Georgia Neocleous and Rafaella Papaodysseos, Kyperounda)