Ancient Greece Food was not very different from what people in Greece and world over eat today. Their diet was mostly filled with vegetables and fish. The bread they made was mostly out of wheat and barley. Ancient Greeks didn’t eat much meat. They used olive oil for cooking and honey was their only sweetener.
Other ingredients like cheese, olives, onions, peas, and fruits like grapes were a major part of their Ancient Greece Food. They also used many herbs like parsley, mint, coriander, poppy seeds, Silvio etc. The wine was their premium beverage.
Due to lack of information and almost no documentation we only know what kind of food the ancient Greeks had but knowledge about how exactly it is prepared or how exactly would it taste is unknown. Yet, let us look at two mouthwatering Ancient Greece Food recipes, one a soup preparation and another a dessert.
Ancient Greece Food
Bean Soup
INGREDIENTS:
2 CUPS WHITE BEANS
500 ML WATER
200 GRMS LARD
3 CHOPPED ONIONS
500 ML BEEF BROTH
2 CLOVES GARLIC
2 TBSP OLIVE OIL
1 TBSP HONEY
1 BUNCH PARSLEY
2 BAY LEAVES
SALT, PEPPER & CORIANDER
PREPARATION METHOD:
Soak the beans in water for at least 4-5 hours. Then boil them for 5-7 minutes. Pour the 2 bay leaves and beans into the beef broth and boil for 2 hours. Sauté the finely chopped onion in the lard and add parsley, coriander, salt, and pepper.
Add this mixture to the beans. Add honey and allow the entire mixture to boil for few more minutes. Finely chop the garlic and add them to olive oil. Add this mixture to the soup before serving.
Gastrin: Ancient Baklava
INGREDIENTS:
FOR THE DOUGH-
4 CUPS FLOUR
1 TSP SALT
1/4 CUP OLIVE OIL
4 TBSP LEMON JUICE
2/3 CUP GROUNDED SEASEME SEEDS
FOR THE FOLLOWING-
300 GRMS CHOPPED UNSALTED HAZELNUT
300 GRMS CHOPPED UNSALTED ALMONDS
300 GRMS CHOPPED WALNUTS
90 GRMS SEASEME SEEDS
90 GRMS POPPY SEEDS
1 TSP GROUNDED BLACK PEPPER
3/4 CUP HONEY
FOR THE SYRUP
2 CUPS SUGAR / HONEY
1 CUP WATER
1/4 CUP Petimezi
3/4 CUP HONEY
PREPARATION METHOD:
Mix all the dough ingredients and knead well to make the dough. Roll the dough into 3 equal size sheets of about 1/8 inch thickness, to cover a medium baking pan.
Combine all the filling ingredients and mix well.
Preheat the oven to 180oC. Lightly oil a baking pan and put one sheet of dough. Put the filling over the sheet and cover it with the second sheet. Put the remaining filling and cover the third sheet over it. Cut it into the desired shape, ideally triangles and sprinkle little water.
Bake it for around 30 minutes.Meanwhile, mix all the ingredients for the syrup and bring to boil. Simmer for around 10 minutes. After 30 minutes, let the pastry cool down and then pour the syrup and let it absorb the syrup. Serve cold.
