Potatoes with spring onions

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Apohtin with potatoes

The apohtin (cured goat meat) and potatoes are cooked in tomato sauce with plenty of small onions (konnari). Once cooked, the food is placed in a clay pot (kouza) to retain its softness. The recipe…

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Aubergines with potatoes yahni

Aubergines and potatoes cooked in tomato sauce.

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Beef stew

A dish which was rarely prepared in the old days, since meat was expensive. It was mainly served on festive occasions. The recipe comes from Aradippou in the Larnaca district.

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Dry louvi xithkiá - black eyed beans stew

The half-boiled local louvi (black eyed beans), white and large, is added to fried onion and vinegar to cook.

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Easter eggs dyed with onion tunics

The tunics of dried onions give the eggs a warm, yellowish to honey colour. Each household starts collecting the tunics a few months before Easter to ensure that when the time comes they have enough…

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Hare stew

"Fry the hare over low heat. Then peel and fry the onions. Add the wine, salt, pepper and bay leaf to the hare. Leave it for a while until the wine is absorbed." ( Phroso Kasinou, Dymes)

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Keftedes - fried meat balls

Delicious meat balls made with minced meat and grated potatoes.

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Krommidin, kremmydin - onion

Onions of Cyprus are mentioned in ancient Greek sources.

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Mountain red mushrooms

A recipe with earthy tones, red mushrooms with onion and dry coriander or cinnamon.

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Mousakas with potatoes

Cypriot version of moussaka, which was made in the past. It was a simple dish, since it was made only with potatoes and minced meat, without béchamel. It was usually served at weddings. Today, some…

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Mushrooms with onion

"Heat the olive oil and add the onion. When softened, add the mushrooms and cook until the water evaporates”. (Koulla Karamani, Kornos)

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Omelette with spring onion leaves

Served as an appetiser.

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Patates - potatoes

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Patates antinahtes

Baby potatoes fried whole (skin on) with wine and dry coriander.

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Potato salad

The boiled potatoes are combined with parsley and spring onions, while the salad is flavoured with the classic oil and lemon juice. The recipe comes from Palechori in Nicosia district.

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Potato salad with eggs

Boil the potatoes with their skin on. When cool, cut into pieces and mix with the boiled eggs and the rest of the salad ingredients.

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Potatoes and sausages cooked with milk skin.

Potatoes and Cyprus sausages cooked with milk skin which gives a very special flavour. “… we used to make this food in the winter when we had sheep's milk skin. From January onwards, for 4 months, we…

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Potatoes antinahtes

Baby potatoes fried whole with wine and dry coriander. They are mostly served as a side dish for meat, particularly to accompany aphelia (wine-cooked pieces of pork with coriander).

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Potatoes antinahtes with loukanika (sausages)

Baby potatoes fried whole with Cyprus sausage and herbs. This recipe comes from Chandria village in Pitsilia district where the particular dish was prepared on Sunday after church, and served as the…

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Potatoes antinahtes with lountza

Baby potatoes and lountza style pork meat fried and cooked in wine and dry coriander.

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Potatoes in oil and water

After frying the potatoes with the skin on, they are cooked in water. The recipe comes from Kato Mylos in the Pitsilia district.

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Potatoes on the charcoal

Simple method of preparing potatoes: wrapped in aluminium foil and cooked on the charcoal until soft.

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Potatoes with artichokes

Potatoes and artichokes are baked together with onions in the oven with olive oil and lemon.

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Potatoes with homemade vermicelli

Potatoes cut into cubes and boiled in chicken stock, along with homemade vermicelli and fried onion. The recipe comes from Liopetri village in Famagusta district which has a large production of…

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Potatoes with spring onions

For this recipe, fresh onions are used which are fried together with the potatoes.

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Potatoes yahni

The potatoes are lightly fried with onion, then cooked in tomato sauce.

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Potatoes yahni with fennel

Recipe from Marathasa. Fennel, which grows in abundance in the region and gives Marathasa its name, flavours many yahni (in tomato sauce) dishes such as potatoes, beans, broad beans and others.

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Potatoes yahni with karotzefala

"... add the potatoes, water and tomato paste. Add pieces of karotzefala and let them boil until the potatoes are cooked." (Maroulla Economidou, Pedoulas)

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Potatoes yahni with rice

Potatoes and rice cooked in tomato sauce, cumin and cinnamon.

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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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Rabbit stew with honey

The sautéed rabbit is cooked in a sauce of vinegar, wine, tomatoes and honey. Served with pilaf pourkouri.

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Red pine and cistus mushrooms

A recipe with red wild mushrooms cooked with onion.

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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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Stuffed onions

Stuffed onions are prepared using the same minced meat and rice-based mixture as in stuffed vine leaves.

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Yer elmasi - Jerusalem artichoke

A type of sweet potato. Yer elmasi was eaten either fresh or fried with wine.