Salad with pággalous (sea hollies)
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… put them in boiling water and cook them for 5 minutes. Remove them from the pot, dry them and then serve them with oil and lemon." (Emilia Kouppi, Kyperounda)
Name - Recipe
Salad with wild indigenous greens of the Eryngium creticum family (sea holly) the young foliage of which is eaten as a cooked vegetable in Cyprus.
Paggaloi
Oil
Lemon
Take the greens, wash them in water and clean them. Cut off the root and then wash them in lukewarm water. Add them in boiling water for 5 minutes. Remove them from the pot, drain them and serve them with oil and lemon. (Emilia Kouppi, Kyperounda)
Boiling.
Additional information and bibliography
Oral testimony: Emilia Kuppi, Kyperounda (see. Kourri, P. and Lazarou, S. (eds.) (2007). Traditional recipes of the village of Kyperounda, unpublished data).
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