Salonika Shrimp Recipes

SALONA ( SWEET AND SOUR FISH)

Steps:

• In a large skillet, on a low flame, place cut up onions with vegetable oil and stir unil brown. Add the chunks of tomatoes and 1/4 cup water.
• Keep stirring on low heat as you add the rest of the ingredients (not the fish). Continue cooking on low flame for 10 minutes. Taste sauce. It should have a mild sweet and sour taste.
• Cover the bottom of a rectangular pyrex baking dish with the sauce. Lay the fish on top of the sauce and then cover the fish with the rest of the sauce.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Bake for 45 minutes. Remove and add the sliced tomatoes over the entire top of the fish. Now broil for 10 minutes.

SALONIKA SHRIMP

Steps:

• Cook the orzo al dente in salted water. Drain well. Return to pot and add the butter, mix well to coat all the pasta.
• Butter an 11 x 7 Pyrex dish.
• Mince the dill and basil.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add garlic and sauté just until translucent. Add the tomatoes, dill and basil. Cook until the tomatoes are slightly soft, about 10 minutes. Add the shrimp and cook, stirring occasionally, just until pink about 3 or 4 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Preheat oven to 500°F.
• While the tomato mixture is cooking, mince the oregano (or crush the dried with your fingers). Crumble feta into a small bowl. Add the oregano and toss with feta until blended.
• Spread the orzo evenly in the buttered baking dish, top with the tomato shrimp mixture, then put the feta oregano on top.
• Bake just until feta begins to melt, about 5 minutes.
• Serve immediately.

LOUIS PAPPAS FAMOUS GREEK SALAD RECIPE - (4.3/5)

Steps:

• Line a lrge platter with the outside lettuce leaves and place 3 cups of the potato salad in a mound, in the center of the platter. Cover with the remaining lettuce which has been shredded. Arrange the roka or watercress on top of this. Place the tomato wedges around the outer edges of salad with a few on the top, and place the cucumber wedges in between the tomatoes, making a solid base of the salad. Place the avocado slices around the outside. Slices of Feta cheese should be arranged on the top of the salad, with the green pepper slices over all. On the very top place the sliced beets with a shrimp on each beet slice and an anchovy filet on the shrimp. The olives, peppers and green onions can be arranged as desired. The entire salad is then sprinkled with the vinegar and then with the blended oil. Sprinkle the oregano over all and serve at once. Garlic toasted Greek bread is served with the salad. POTATO SALAD Boil the potatoes in the jackets for abour 30 minutes or until tender but not soft, when tested. Drain, cool and peel the potatoes when cold, slice into a bowl. Cut onions and pepper into thin slices, and chop the parsley. Add to the potatoes and sprinkle lightly with salt. Fold in the sald dressing using more if necessary to hold salad together lightlhy.