List of Greek dishes

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This is a list of dishes found in Greek cuisine.

Soups

Name	Image	Description
Avgolemono		'Egg-lemon' soup: chicken, meat, vegetable, or fish broth thickened with eggs, lemon juice, and rice.
Fakes		A lentil soup and one of the famous everyday Greek soups, usually served with vinegar and olives and/or smoked herring (kipper).
Fasolada		A bean soup defined in many cookery books as the traditional Greek dish. It is made of beans, tomatoes, carrot, celery and a lot of olive oil.
Magiritsa		A traditional Easter soup made with lamb offal and thickened with avgolemono.
Patsas		A tripe soup.
Psarosoupa		A 'fish soup'. It can be cooked with a variety of fish types, and several kinds of vegetables (carrots, parsley, celery, potatoes, onion), several varieties include the classic kakavia which is drizzled with olive oil.
Revithia		A chickpea soup.
Trahana		A mixture of fermented grain and yoghurt.

Vegetarian main dishes

Very popular during fasting periods, such as the Great Lent:

Name	Image	Description
Anginares A La Polita		Artichokes with olive oil.
Arakas Me Anginares		Fresh peas with artichokes in the oven.
Bamies		Okra with tomato sauce (sometimes with potatoes and/or chicken/lamb).
Briám		An oven-baked ratatouille of summer vegetables based on sliced potatoes and zucchini in olive oil. Usually includes eggplant, tomatoes, onions, and ample aromatic herbs and seasonings.
Domatokeftedhes		Tomato fritters with mint, fried in olive oil and typically served with fava (split pea paste). Mainly a Cycladic Island dish.
Fasolakia freska		Fresh green beans stewed in tomato sauce. Some people might also add potatoes and/or zucchini.
Gigandes plaki		Baked beans with tomato sauce and various herbs. Often made spicy with various peppers.
Horta		Quite often consumed as a light main meal, with boiled potatoes and bread.
Lachanorizo (Λαχανόριζο)		(Cabbage with rice)
Prassorizo (Πρασόριζο)		(Leeks with rice)
Lachanodolmades		Cabbage rolls, stuffed with rice and sometimes meat, spiced with various herbs and served with avgolemono sauce or simmered in a light tomato broth.
Spanakorizo		Spinach and rice stew cooked in lemon and olive oil sauce.
Yemista		Baked stuffed vegetables. Usually tomatoes, peppers, or other vegetables hollowed out and baked with a rice and herb filling.

Meat dishes

Name	Image	Description
Ameletita		A delicacy served in Greece and Cyprus made from grilled lamb's testicles.
Baked lamb with potatoes (Αρνί στο φούρνο με πατάτες)		One of the most common Greek dishes. There are many variations with additional ingredients.
Bekri Meze		'Drunkard's snack', diced beef marinated in wine, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves, olive oil and cooked slowly.
Giouvetsi		Baked lamb in clay pot with Kritharaki - orzo.
Païdakia		Grilled lamb chops with lemon, oregano, salt and pepper.
Htapothi sti Skhara:		Grilled octopus in vinegar, oil and oregano. Accompanied by Ouzo.
Gyros		Meat roasted on a vertically turning spit and served with sauce (often tzatziki) and garnishes (tomato, onions) on pita bread; a popular fast food.
Kefalonian Kreatopita		Meat pie using veal, lamb, goat or pork meat (or a combination thereof) with rice and a light tomato sauce wrapped in pastry kneaded with white wine. Popular dish on the island of Kefalonia.
Kleftiko		Literally meaning of the klephts, this is lamb slow-baked on the bone, first marinated in garlic and lemon juice, originally cooked in a pit oven.
Kokoretsi		Seasoned lamb innards
Kotopoulo pilafi		('Chicken Pilaf'), mostly popular on the island of Crete.
Keftedes		Fried meatballs with oregano and mint.
Moussaka		Eggplant casserole. There are other variations besides eggplant, such as zucchini or rice, but the eggplant version melitzanes moussaka is most popular.
Pastitsio		A baked pasta dish with a filling of ground meat and a Bechamel sauce top.
Lasagnaopolis		100 layers of pasta with tomato sauce and various vegetables and/or meat. A lasagna for the Gods.
Pastitsada
Pork with celery avgolemono		A stew of pork chunks and celery in an egg-lemon sauce.
Soutzoukakia Smyrneika		Large meatballs with cumin, cinnamon and garlic and served in a tomato sauce.
Souvlaki		(Lit: 'skewer') Anything grilled on a skewer (lamb, chicken, pork, swordfish, shrimp). Most common is lamb, pork or chicken, often marinated in oil, salt, pepper, oregano and lemon.
Spetsofai		A dish with country sausages, peppers, onions and wine. Originates from Mt. Pelion.
Stifado		Game (rabbit, venison etc.)stew with pearl onions, red wine and cinnamon.

Desserts and sweets

Name	Image	Description
Bougatsa		Pastry consisting of custard, cheese, or minced meat filling between layers of phyllo.
Diples		A Christmas and wedding delicacy, made of thin, sheet-like dough which is cut in large squares and dipped in a swirling fashion in a pot of hot olive oil for a few seconds. As the dough fries, it stiffens into a helical tube; it is then removed immediately and sprinkled with honey and crushed walnuts.
Galaktoboureko		Custard between layers of phyllo. The name derives from the Greek "ghala", meaning milk, and from the Turkish börek, meaning filled, thus meaning "filled with milk."
Halvadopites		A nougat of sesame with almonds in a thin crust.
Karidopita		A walnut cake.
Koulourakia		Butter or olive-oil cookies.
Kourabiedes		Christmas cookies made by kneading flour, butter and crushed roasted almonds, then generously dusted with powdered sugar.
Loukoumades		Similar to donuts, loukoumades are essentially fried balls of dough drenched in honey and sprinkled with cinnamon.
Melomakarona		"Honey macaroons", Christmas cookies soaked in a syrup of diluted honey (meli in Greek, thus melomakarona), then sprinkled with crushed walnuts.
Moustalevria		A flour and grape must pudding.
Moustokouloura		Cookies of flour kneaded with fresh grape must instead of water.
Rizogalo		'Rice-milk' is rice pudding.
Milopita me Pandespani		Apple pie with cinnamon and powdered sugar.
Ravani Basbousa (Arabic), revani (Turkish)		Sweet cake made of a semolina soaked in syrup.
Soutzoukos
Spoon sweets (γλυκά του κουταλιού)		Of various fruits, ripe or unripe, or green unripe nuts. Spoon sweets are essentially made the same way as marmalade, except that the fruit are boiled whole or in large chunks.
Tsoureki		A traditional Christmas and Easter sweet bread also known as 'Lambropsomo' (Easter bread), flavored with "mahlepi", the intensely aromatic extract of the stone of the St. Lucie Cherry.
Vasilopita		Saint Basil's cake or King's cake, traditional for New Year's Day. Vasilopites are baked with a coin inside, and whoever gets the coin in their slice are considered blessed with good luck for the whole year.

Spreads, dips, others

Name	Image	Description
Taramosalata		Cod roe, breadcrumbs, olive oil, lemon juice.
Tyrokafteri		Sometimes written as Tyrokavteri. A spread or dip, the main ingredients of which are feta cheese, roasted red peppers, and garlic. Can be spicy hot or mild.
Tzatsiki		Yogourt, cucumber, garlic

Cheese

There is a wide variety of cheeses made in various regions across Greece. The vast majority of them remain unknown outside the Greek borders due to the lack of knowledge and the highly localized distinctive features. Many artisanal hand made cheeses, both common varieties and local specialties, are produced by small family farms throughout Greece and offer distinct flavors atypical of the mass-produced varieties found commercially in Greece and abroad. A good list of some of the varieties of cheese produced and consumed in Greece can be found in the List of cheeses article, under the name of the country. Here are some of the more popular throughout Greece:

Name	Image	Description
Anthotyros
Formaela
Feta
Graviera
Kasseri
Kefalotyri
Kefalograviera
Myzithra
Manouri
Metsovone

Drinks

Name	Image	Description
Greek frappé coffee		A foam-covered drink derived from spray-dried instant coffee that is consumed cold.
Wine		The most common drink in Greece. Legend claims that wine was invented on the island of Icaria.
Beer		Widely drunk; common brands include Vergina, Heineken, Amstel, Zeos, Mythos, Alfa Hellenic Lager, Fix, Henninger, and Kaiser, all of which are produced locally, some under license.
Mavrodafni		Sweet, liquor-style, red wine with higher alcohol percentage than normal.
Metaxa		A brand of sweet brandy, 40% alcohol content.
Ouzo		An 80-proof clear alcoholic beverage that is flavored with anise; it turns milky white with water or ice.
Retsina		A white wine that has some pine resin added, originally as a preservative, but nowadays for the flavor; this is a specialty of the Athens region. It should not be aged.
Tentura		A cinnamon flavored liquor from Patras.
Tsipouro or (esp. in Crete) tsikoudia/raki		Mostly home-brewed, a clear drink similar to ouzo, often with higher alcohol content, and usually not flavored with herbs. The city of Volos at the centre of Greece is well known for its Tsipouradika (literally: tsipouro places). In Thessaly tsipouro is always flavored with anise.