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Fasting Recipes without Oil

Zucchini Pie (No Sugar)

Zucchini Pie (No Sugar)

Scrape zucchini or clean the outer green leaves, then scrub the in the onion grater in a bowl and season with salt, let stand for a few minutes and then squeeze them. Mix rice or...

Olive Bread (Eleopsomo)

Olive Bread (Eleopsomo)

Mix all together and bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for about an hour...

Shamali

Shamali

We mix all the ingredients carefully and gently. We bake it in 180 degrees for 50 minutes. We sprinkle it when it is still hot with the hot syrup.

Grape Must Pudding (Moustalevria)

Grape Must Pudding (Moustalevria)

We boil the must in a pot. We dilute the niseste in a bowl. As soon as the must is boiled, we add little by little the niseste porridge and mix carefully so that it won’t go lumpy. We keep mixing it until it is curdy enough. We serve it in bowls after we have pour some water in them. We sprinkle it with some sesame, cinnamon and nuts.

Veloute Vegetable Soup

Veloute Vegetable Soup

We wash and peel all the vegetables and then we cut them in small pieces and boil them until they are melted. We blend them, to be smooth like a cream. We continuous boiling them and add as much water as we like. Finally, we add the corn flour which must be diluted in some water.

Cauliflower Soup

Cauliflower Soup

We wash the cauliflower, cut it in pieces and throw awy the thick stalks. We peel the potatoes, cut them and boil them with the cauliflower for 20 – 25 minutes. We keep ½ litre of  the boiled water and melt the rest of the vegetables. We add some salt, pepper and nutmeg. In a pot, we melt the butter, we add the flour and let the mixture become “golden”.

Apple Pie with oil or Tahini

Apple Pie with oil or Tahini

Melt the tahini with the orange juice and add the flour and the remaining ingredients and knead. Split the dough in two and roll out the first piece of thick sheet and spread in pan with oil and fleur....

Lenten Bougatsa

Lenten Bougatsa

In a pot we pour the milk and then we add the semolina, the sugar, the butter and we mix them well on the stovetop until the cream is curdy enough. In the end,  we add the baking powder and the vanilla. In a large baking pan, we put the first sheet of pastry dough.  We put the cream on it and finally we put the other sheet of pastry dough.

Lenten Ice Cream

Lenten Ice Cream

We heat the milk. We mix the sugar with the salep, we add this mixture to the milk and let it boil in a low temperature. We mix it continuously so that it won’t get stuck on the pot. As soon as it is well boiled, we remove it from the stovetop. When it is cold enough, we mix the mixture again and put it in the fridge. After 20 minutes, we sprinkle it with the grated cooking chocolate and the ground caramelized almond kernel.

Green Beans with Octopus

Green Beans with Octopus

After we have soaked, washed   and   peeled  the beans, we start boiling them. We also boil the octopus in another pot  without putting anything else in it. When the green beans are half boiled, we  pour  the octopus’ juice on them, all the other ingredients needed  and the whole tentacles in the pot, but we don’t mix them. When the sauce is boiled down, we serve the green beans by cutting the tentacles in small pieces and trimming the whole platter with them.

Artichokes with Tachini (Oil free)

Artichokes with Tachini (Oil free)

Boil artichokes but not add any salt. When you boil Whisk tahini with lemon. Pour the pot a little bit of broth and artichokes. When tahini thinned pour slowly into the pot. After the boil remove from heat.

Cut up Spaghetti with Walnuts

Cut up Spaghetti with Walnuts

Pound 250 gr. of walnuts in the mortar and then add the bread, the garlic and the salt and keep pounding until the mixture turns into a smooth cream. If the mixture is too curdy we dilute it with some water. Boil the spaghetti in plenty of salted water and strain it. Serve the spaghetti in a platter and pour the sauce of nuts on it.

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