Food of Greece
40 traditional dishes · Europe
Cities & regions of Greece
Saganaki
Pan-fried cheese, crisp outside and molten within.
Soutzoukakia
Spiced oval meatballs in a cumin tomato sauce.
Stifado
Sweet-spiced beef stew with whole baby onions.
Tzatziki
Cooling yoghurt dip with cucumber, garlic and dill.
Fasolada
Hearty white bean soup, considered a national dish.
Hortopita
Filo pie packed with wild greens and herbs.
Kourabiedes
Buttery almond shortbread buried in icing sugar.
Mydia
Hailing from Greece, Mydia is a much-loved mussel dish.
Mydia Saganaki
Aegean mussels cooked saganaki-style in tomato, ouzo, and feta, served bubbling in the pan with crusty bread.
Xygalo Siteias
Xygalo Siteias is a traditional cheese from Greece.
Fasolakia
Hailing from Greece, Fasolakia is a much-loved vegetable dish.
Kasseri
Kasseri is a Greek PDO pasta-filata cheese of sheep's milk (plus up to 20% goat's), mild, salty and elastic, loved sliced, fried for saganaki and melted.
Kokoretsi
Kokoretsi is a beloved offal dish, traditional to Greece.
Metsovone
Metsovone is Greece's smoked, semi-hard PDO cheese from Metsovo in Epirus, made from cow, sheep and goat milk and grilled as a taverna meze.
Sofegada
Sofegada is one of the classic dishes in the stew tradition of Greece.
Xynotyro
Xynotyro is one of the classic dishes in the cheese tradition of Greece.