Recipes
Recipes from the Cretan kitchen
Simple, honest dishes built around raisins, vine leaves, and the produce of the season.
These are not complicated recipes. They come from the same place our products do — a Cretan kitchen where good ingredients do most of the work.
Lamb with Raisins, Pine Nuts and Tomato
A slow Cretan lamb stew with tomato, cinnamon, and sun-dried raisins stirred in at the end. Rich, fragrant, and better the next day.
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Dolmades with Vine Leaves and Raisins
Dolmades made with our spring-picked vine leaves and sun-dried raisins in the filling — exactly as they’re made in the villages around Profitis Ilias.
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Roasted Grapes with Honey, Thyme and Aged Cheese
Roasted Profitis Ilias grapes with honey, thyme, and aged graviera. A five-ingredient dish that works as a starter or cheese course.
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Cretan Raisin Cake with Olive Oil and Cinnamon
A simple olive oil cake with sun-dried raisins, cinnamon, and orange — keeps well and improves by the second day.
Read recipe →Olive Oil and Raisin Cake (egg-free)
A simple, egg-free traditional cake with olive oil, orange juice and raisins — the kind of old recipe passed down through generations.
Read recipe →Nikoleta’s Raisin Cake
Egg-free, butter-free, and still perfectly moist. Olive oil, orange juice, warm spices and a full cup of Golden Delies raisins.
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