14 Sep 2025
Simple Greek Cooking : Apartment Edition
If you're staying in one of our hotel apartments and want to try making some Greek dishes, here are a few easy and quick ideas. These are popular homemade dishes you can easily prepare.
1. Greek Salad / Dakos
Ingredients: Tomatoes (or cherry tomatoes), cucumbers, onion, capers, green pepper, olives, salt, oregano, olive oil. For Dakos: Use barley rusks and crumbled feta cheese.
2. Strapatsada (Scrambled Eggs with Tomato)
Ingredients: Tomatoes, eggs, salt, pepper, oil. Instructions: Grate or dice tomatoes and sauté in oil until most liquid evaporates. Add lightly beaten eggs and stir until cooked to your liking.
3. Trahana with Feta
Ingredients: Trahana (traditional Greek pasta), water, butter, feta cheese, boukovo (chili flakes), salt. Instructions: Boil water with butter, add trahana, and simmer for 15 minutes. Add feta, remove from heat, and sprinkle with boukovo. Serve immediately.
4. Tzatziki
Ingredients: Yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper.
5. Melon & Peaches with Louza (Charcuterie) & Graviera
Ingredients: Melon slices, peaches, thinly sliced louza, graviera cheese (cubed or shaved), olive oil, balsamic vinegar.
6. Summer Octopus Salad
Ingredients: canned octopus, cucumber, rocket, capers, onion, spring onion, fennel, parsley and cherry tomatoes. Add all ingredients in chunks and finish with balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and oregano.
7. Hilopites with Butter & Myzithra or Feta
Ingredients: Hilopites (Greek egg pasta), olive oil, butter, grated myzithra (or feta) cheese, spice mix, pepper, parsley. Instructions: Boil hilopites. In another pan, heat olive oil, melt butter, and add myzithra, spices, pepper, and parsley. Add the cooked hilopites with a little boiling water and mix well. Serve immediately.
8. Almyra with Lemon & Feta
Ingredients: Almyra (sea fennel), olive oil, lemon juice, salt. Instructions: Clean and wash almyra. Blanch for 4-5 minutes. Drain and serve with olive oil, lemon juice, and a pinch of salt. Pair with feta cheese.
We hope you enjoy these quick Greek flavors in the comfort of your apartment! Bon appétit!
