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The best dishes of Cretan cuisine you need to taste!!!

Join our group and you will have the opportunity to taste the most of these and more. All of our tours contain food from pure Cretan products, amazing recipes that will win over even the most demanding lovers of cooking and tasting, check them out!!!

Snails

Puffed, fried or coarse, no matter how you cook them, snails are one of the most exquisite and popular dishes of Crete. Specially roasted, in the pan, with plenty of salt and rosemary, they are an excellent accompaniment to your raki and tsikoudia.

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Cretan cheese pie

The Cretan pie is a special thin fried pita filled with soft cheese, such as xinomyzithra or anthotyro, served with honey and optional walnuts. It is a great appetizer for tsikoudia, but also a delicious after-meal dessert. Its origin is from Sfakia, but it is found in many parts of Crete.

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Face-to-face roasting on the fire (Antikristo)

Many of us may have heard of this awesome Cretan dish, but how many of us know exactly what it is? We are talking about an ancient way of roasting, where large pieces of meat – usually lamb or goat – were attached to sticks around the fire. So the meat was simmered for 5-6 hours over the fire and tenderized. This way of roasting was mainly used in the villages of Psiloritis.

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Squashed macaroni (Skioufichta)

They are delicious, they are traditional and they are beautiful. Squishy macaroons are pasta in a cylindrical shape. They are made with flour, water, salt and oil or butter. The traditional recipe calls for the skioufichta to be “burnt” in hot butter and sprinkled with plenty of grated mizithra or anthotyro cheese. The ultimate taste simplicity.

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Kalitsounia – Anevata

On the rise or of the moment, kalitsounia are one of the most exquisite and delicious Cretan dishes. Anevata are those pies that have yeast and “rise” (inflate), while instant ones are made with a simple sheet. The simple kalitsounia look like star-shaped tarts, while the anevata are made mainly at Easter and are a bit reminiscent of the tsoureki. Both have a filling of mizithra or anthotyro cheese, honey and cinnamon. They are eaten both for dessert and to accompany your raki, which is so well suited to something slightly sweet and cheesy.

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