Appetizers

• Dolmades - grape leaves stuffed with rice, meat, spices

Main Dishes

• Gyro - A Greek fast food-- a pita sandwich with roasted meat.
• Souvlaki - skewered marinated meat (pork, chicken, beef, lamb)
• Moussaka - casserole layered with eggplant, potatoes, cheese, and ground beef
• Pastitsio - macaroni layered with cheese and meat
• Spanakopita - spinach and feta cheese between filo dough
• Tiropeta - Filo triangles stuffed with cheese and spices

Desserts/Pastries/Sweets

• Baklava - layers of filo dough with nuts, spices, and honey syrup
• Loukoumades - deep fried pastry balls soaked in a honey syrup
• Paximadia - cookies similar to Italian biscotti
• Vasilopita - traditional New Years Day bread
• Kourambiedes - buttery almond cookies covered with powdered sugar
• Koulourakia - butter cookies

Drinks

• Retsina - a white wine flavored with pine resin
• Ouzo - an anise flavored alchoholic beverage

Other

• Feta - a brined curd cheese
• Kalamata - Greek olives, preserved in vinegar or olive oil
• Tzatziki - yogurt, cucumber sauce
• Hummus - spread made from mashed chick peas
• Filo, Phyllo - very thin pastry dough

Note: some of these names are 'anglicized' variants of Greek words. The pronunciations given here are, as best as I can determine, the common usage in American English. I have not tried to reproduce pronunciations with Greek accents.


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