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"Cut the tomatoes into slices, sprinkle them with salt and lay them out in the sun to dry." (Despina Kyriakou, Kyperounda)
Name - Recipe
Ντομάτες λιαστές.
Τomatoes
Salt
Cut the tomatoes into slices, sprinkle them with salt and lay them out in the sun to dry. These tomatoes are used in recipes as a substitute for tomato sauce. (Despina Kyriakou, 53 years old, Kyperounda
Drying in the sun.
Additional information and bibliography
Oral testimony: Despina Kyriakou, 53 years old, Kyperounda (see Kourri, P. and Lazarou, S. (eds.) (2007). Traditional recipes of the village of Kyperounda, unpublished data).
Stalo Lazarou
Ντομάτες κομμένες σε φέτες. Πηγή: Γ. Γρούτας.
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