This recipe describes how to make melomakarona, a Greek Christmas cookie. It involves blending olive oil, sugar, lemon and orange zest and juice, then adding semolina flour and baking soda and molding into balls. The balls are baked for 30 minutes and then soaked in syrup for 5 minutes before serving sprinkled with walnuts. The recipe uses olive oil, sugar, citrus, grains and baking to produce a traditional Greek holiday treat.

2. Ingredients Recipe
We blend the olive oil in the mixer. Then we add
• 2 cups olive oil the sugar, the lemon and orange zest, the orange
• 1 cup sugar juice, the reground fine semolina and we finally
add the flour and the baking soda. We mold them
• 1 cup orange juice in small pieces and we bake them at 200°C for 30
• 1 cup reground minutes. We boil all the materials for the syrup
fine semolina and when the cooked melomakarona cool, we dip
them in the syrup for 5 minutes, finally we put
• 1kg flour them in a big plate and we sprinkle them with
• 1 ½ teaspoons of walnut.
baking soda
• Lemon and orange
zest
• syrup

3. Ingredients Recipe
From the previous night we
•500gr dried beans put the beans in a bowl with
water and we cover them.
•2-3 sliced carrots
The next day we put the
•1 chopped onion beans in a pot with all the
materials and we boil them
•Canned tomatoes
for about an hour.
•Chopped celery
•Salt
•½ glass of olive oil

4. Ingredients Recipe
In a bowl we mix the
•½kg ground beef
ground beef and the
•Chopped parsley and some mint bread (which we soaked
and alumed) and the
•Some bread
other materials. We
•1 chopped onion knead well and we mold
in small balls. Finally we
•2 eggs
fry in hot olive oil.
•Olive oil
•Salt
•pepper