Greek Everything

Full disclosure: I would eat anything if it had feta cheese on top. Bless the Greeks. I LOVE Mediterranean food. The flavors are so fresh and light. Also it's not often super oily or cheesy (except for you, Spanikopita, you naughty minx) so you can feel good about putting it in your body without altering recipes or cutting anything out. These are a few of my tried and true favorite Greek recipes that I've found on Pinterest. You can make them all together because they are v simple and basically have a Greek festival in your very own kitchen.

Enjoy!

Greek Spinach Rice (Spanakorizo) courtesy of "A Family Feast" (with minor changes)

Servings: 4

Cook time: 1hr 15min 

Ingredients: 

- 10 oz box frozen spinach

- 4 tbsp fresh dill, chopped, separated 

- 1 tbsp garlic 

- zest and juice from 1 lemon

- 1 small onion, diced

- 2 C veggie broth (lowest sodium you can find), you could also use chicken broth

- 1 C brown rice (not minute rice)

- 1/4 tsp black pepper

- 1/2 tsp salt

- 2 tbsp olive oil

- 1/2 tsp cumin

Directions:

- Heat olive oil over medium-high heat in a pan or pot with a tight fitting lid

- Add onion and garlic, cook a couple of minutes until onion in translucent 

- Add cumin, 2 tbsp chopped fresh dill, lemon zest, salt and pepper and cook another minute

- Add veggie broth, frozen spinach (throw the whole frozen block in there), and rice

- Bring to a boil

- Lower to a simmer, cover and cook for 50 min- 1 hr (no peeking!!)

- When rice is cooked tender, remove the lid, stir to combine spinach + add juice from your lemon and the other 2 tbsp fresh dill

- Enjoy!

Homemade Greek Salad Dressing Courtesy of "Running in a Skirt"

Prep time: 5 min

Yields: 1 C dressing

Ingredients

- 1/2 C red wine vinegar

- 1/2 C extra virgin olive oil

- 2 tsp minced garlic

- juice from 1 lemon

- 2 tsp dried oregano

- 1/2 tsp dried rosemary

- 1/2 tsp dried thyme

- 1/4 tsp salt

- 1/4 pepper

Directions:

- Combine all ingredients in a bowl or salad dressing shaker and whisk or shake

- Add to your favorite salad

**My favorite greek salad is: romaine lettuce, shredded carrots, cucumber, red cabbage, red onion, roma tomatoes, and LOTS of feta cheese, add olives or pepperoncinis as desired

I served these beauties with grilled salmon (seasoned with salt, pepper and sprinkled with some fresh dill), a lemon slice for drizzling and tzatziki (duhh). 

Look at this masterpiece!!! (heart eyes)