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Mezé for hunters. The thrushes are lightly fried and cooked in wine and tomato juice or grated fresh tomatoes.
Name - Recipe
Τσίχλες κοκκινιστές.
Thrushes
Potatoes
1 glass of red wine
1 glass of tomato juice or grated tomatoes
Salt, pepper
Marinate the thrushes in wine for about an hour. Sauté the thrushes and remove them from the pot. Peel and cut the potatoes, dip them in the wine and sauté them a bit. Add in the pot together with the potatoes, 1 tomato juice or grated tomatoes, 1 glass of red wine, salt, pepper and water to cover the potatoes. When they are half cooked, add the thrushes and cook them all until they are done. (Evangelia Vorka, Kornos)
Marinating in wine.
Sautéing.
Cooking in a pot.
Additional information and bibliography
Oral testimony: Evangelia Vorka, Kornos. Recipe editing: Marilena Ioannidou (see Little Volunteers and Women's Association of Kornos (2009). Traditional dishes of Kornos (ed. Marilena Ioannidou). Publication permission: Archontiko Papadopoulou, Kornos).
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