TRADITIONAL RECIPES OF CYPRUS

The Cypriot cuisine  involves appetizers,delicacies a

nd salads, main dishes and sweets. There is also

the traditional cyprus coffee and other

traditional beverages brewed on the island. 

STARTERS

Halloumi -cheese

Fantastic fried, grilled or barbecued. Added to salads or served with vegetables. Halloumi is often served with chopped mint to add flavor. Its used also as a stuffing in traditional pies - pourekia

• STARTERS

Salad with halloumi and cooked vegetables

Halloumi and lountza as starters

Lountza: Made from fresh pork fillet, matured in

a mixture of village wine and coriander seeds.

The maturity period takes about 15 days and is followed by a smoking process.

Traditional smoked lountza is usually served uncooked, sliced or cubed.

Main courses

Koupepia

The things you will need

• Half a kilo of fresh vine leaves. • Half a kilo of fresh minced

beef or pork.• ½ cup long grain white rice • 1 medium onion • 1 tin chopped tomatoes • 1 tomato puree• Juice of ½ lemon• Season with salt, pepper,

ground cinnamon

Prepare the vine leaves

Use fresh vine leaves

• put them in a large bowl

• pour over boiling water to cover them and leave them till they change colour

Preparing the filling

• Put the mince into a bowl and add the rice, the onion, the tomato, the fresh mint and seasoning.

• Add salt and lemon juice.

• Mix together.

Filling the Koupepia

• Take a vine leaf and place about a tablespoon of the mixture on the leaf.

• Fold the sides of the leaf inwards and the bottom part up, then roll up tightly into a cylindrical shape

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Cooking time• In the saucepan, add little oil,

the tomato puree, the koupepia and cover with a plate (to hold them all in place so that they do not escape when boiling).

• Add water to the saucepan to come up just above the plate.

• Put saucepan on to boil and once it has started to boil, bring down to simmer. • Cook for 30 minutes.

Ready to be served

AFELIA (pork cooked in wine)

AFELIA

Ingredients:

1 kg pork soft (wimp or spoon) chopped

1-2 cups dry red wine

saltblack pepperdry coriander seeds

AFELIA (pork cooked in wine)

• Put the meat with crushed coriander in a container and pour wine to cover it. Refrigerate for several hours.

• Cook the meat, pouring in all the wine without oil and we cover the pot.

• When it boils, lower the heat until the meat is cooked with the wine.

• Add the black pepper, salt and a bit more coriander.

• Aphelia is accompanied with pourgouri pilafi or antinaktes potatoes.

Cypriot sweets

Loukmades

They are dough balls which are first deep fried and then soaked in

sugar syrup or honey.

• 14 gr fresh yeast

or 6 gr dried yeast• 300 ml warm

water• 0,5 teaspoon

sugar• 230 gr plain flour• 0,25 teaspoon

salt• 300 ml corn oil,

for frying• 1,5 teaspoons

cinnamon

You need

Syrup

120ml lukewarm water

200g sugar

320g honey

Soujoukos (Grape must roll)

• This is the most well known of all grape juice products.

• The product contains almonds or walnuts

• Soujoukos is the favorite sweet at Cyprus festivals and fairs

• A traditional and delightful Greek Cypriot custom is the offering of spoon sweets to guests as a symbol of hospitality.

Spoon Sweets

• They are called spoon sweets because the usual serving size is a well-filled teaspoon.

• Spoon sweets are popular in Cyprus and are usually served with Greek coffee and a glass of cold water.