This document provides recipes for a Greek Christmas menu including: 1) A cheese pie made with puff pastry, feta cheese, eggs, milk and pepper. 2) A salad with shredded cabbage, carrots, rocket, cherry tomatoes and pomegranate seeds dressed with lemon juice and olive oil. 3) A pork dish cooked with onion, garlic, potatoes, plums and red peppers in red wine. 4) Melomakarona, a traditional Greek honey cake made with orange juice, olive oil, flour and spices, served with honey and walnuts.

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Christmas
Menu
Greek Kitchen, by 3rd Gymnasium Salamina
Supervisors: Villioti, Rafouli

2. Cheese Pie (with Greek Feta Cheese)
The Greek Feta is a registered trademark of Greek Cuisine…..
Ingredients
 2 Large Sheets of Frozen Puff Pastry
 400gr Greek Feta Cheese (or other white cow cheese)
 5 big eggs
 100ml fresh milk
 Pepper
We defrost the puff pastry. We grease with olive oil a rectangular oven pan and
spread a sheet of puff pastry. In a bowl we cut into very small pieces the cheese
and mix it with 4 eggs, milk and pepper. We add the above mixture onto the
pastry sheet and put the second sheet of puff pastry on the top. We close the
edges of puff pastry with a fork. We scratch the surface of the pie with a knife
and brush with an egg. We bake the cheese pie in the oven at 180oC for 25 to
30 minutes, to swell and brown well.

3. Cheese Pie (with Greek Feta Cheese)

4. Christmas Salad
Cabbage, Carrot, Rocket and Pomegranate Classic Winter
Vegetables, suitable for Christmas Menu…
Ingredients
• white cabbage
• red cabbage
• 2 carrots
• rocket
• 4-5 cherry tomatoes
• seeds from half pomegranate
• 1 lemon
• olive oil
• salt and pepper
In a large salad bowl, we cut into small pieces the white and red cabbage and
the rocket. Then, we grate the carrots and put them in the bowl to. We put the
cherry tomatoes, pomegranate, salt and pepper. We finish the salad by placing
the lemon juice and the olive oil.

5. Christmas Salad

6. Pork with Pulms
A Recipe straight from Ancient Greece!!!
Ingredients
• Pork cut into 10-12 pieces
• 1 onion sliced in thick round strips
• 1 garlic
• 2 potatoes, cut round
• plums (depending on your taste)
• 2 red peppers in thick strips
• 1 cup red wine
• olive oil
• salt
• Pepper
1. Finely chop the garlic and sauté in a deep pan till it starts to brown. Add the
pieces of pork and sauté with the garlic.
2. When they are ready add the plums and the onion. Continue with adding the
peppers and when all the smells are combined deglaze with the red wine.
3. Finally, add the potatoes and let it boil for 20 minutes. Now it is time to add
the salt (depending on taste) and pepper.

7. Pork with Pulms

8. Melomakarona/Greek Honey Cake
The Greek National Pastry for Christmas
Ingredients for Syrup
• 500gr water
• 700gr sugar
• 1 orange cut in two
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 100gr honey
We put everything, but the honey in a pot, and we let the boil for a minute. We
remove the pot from the fire, we add the honey and let the syrup cool.

9. Ingredients for the Cakes
• 400gr orange juice
• 520gr olive oil
• 1200gr flour
• 30gr confectioner’s sugar
• ½ tea spoon soda (powder)
• 1 tea spoon cinnamon
• 1/6 tea spoon ground clove
• 50gr butter
• Zest from one orange
We put all the liquid ingredients, the butter, the sugar, the soda and
the spices in a big bowl. We mix everything with our hands, adding
slowly the flour. The dough should not become very firm.
After that we make oval shaped "cakes", and on the upper side we
make small holes using the tip of a fork.
We bake them on baking paper, in a preheated oven at 180 degrees
Celsius for about 30 minutes. They should get a deep gold colour, so
maybe they need a bit more time. When they are done we put them
warm in the syrup, move them around for a minute and then let them
lose the excess syrup.
For the last touch we need some more honey, and ground (in big
pieces) walnut. On a plate we put some honey with walnuts then some
melomakarona. On top of them we put some honey and walnuts, and
then some more melomakarona etc...

10. Melomakarona/Greek Honey Cake

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