Kim

We are taking a first trip to Greece in July/August, mostly Crete but
also Athens and Santorini. Sad to say for convenience sake, we are
limited to vegetarian food(vegan - no dairy, no fish). Are there any
standard greek dishes/side dishes that are vegan, or any restaurant
recomendations.

Thanks!

Carole Allen

Most everywhere has these stuffed tomatoes, filled with seasoned rice,
baked...wonderful.. and of course all those Greek salads in so many
varieties ...I suppose you could ask them to leave off the feta if you
had to

No dairy means no saganaki..

you can always live on the fries...dusted with salt and
oregano...scrumptious.. and the baklava...

On 7 Jul 2004 19:05:48 -0700, [email protected] (Kim) wrote:

    >We are taking a first trip to Greece in July/August, mostly Crete but
    >also Athens and Santorini. Sad to say for convenience sake, we are
    >limited to vegetarian food(vegan - no dairy, no fish). Are there any
    >standard greek dishes/side dishes that are vegan, or any restaurant
    >recomendations.
    >Thanks!

Marianne Kristiansen

On 7 Jul 2004 19:05:48 -0700, Kim wrote:

    > Are there any
    > standard greek dishes/side dishes that are vegan, or any restaurant
    > recomendations.

Here I go on my favorite subject;

Baked haricot beans
Fried peppers
Fried Courgettes
Garlic Sauce
Aubergine Salad
tzatziki!(yoghurt, cucumber, garlic)
Stuffed vine leaves
Green bean salad
beetroot salad
potato salad
lettuce salad
califlower salad ... and more salads
spinach pie
lentil soup
tomatosoup
vegetable soup
chick pea soup
bean soup
artichokes with broad beans and other atichoke dishes
aubergine "imam" (aubergines baked in the oven filled with onion,)
tomatoes..
aubergine with tomatoes
oven roasted potatoes (roasted in oil and lemon. Really, really good!)
briam (potatoes and vegetable "stew" baked in the oven
Okra in oil
Spinach with rice
stuffed tomatoes and peppers (with a mix with rice)
green beans in oil
You will also find vegetable balls fried in oil, they are really good.

Well, that's what I found during a quick browse through one of my cookery
books. I don't know how many of theese dishes are served during summer
season, but you won't starve!


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Alexis Atreides

In news:[email protected],
Kim <[email protected]> typed:

    > We are taking a first trip to Greece in July/August, mostly Crete but
    > also Athens and Santorini. Sad to say for convenience sake, we are
    > limited to vegetarian food(vegan - no dairy, no fish). Are there any
    > standard greek dishes/side dishes that are vegan, or any restaurant
    > recomendations.
    > Thanks!


Greek traditional cuisine is full of vegetarian tasty dishes,olive oil is
the
basis of almost every food instead of butter or fat.Have in mind in every
taverna you go just ask the waiters recommendation for vegan dishes,
you will be surprised from the answers in a pleasant way. :-)

http://www.veg-soc.org/html/articles...eek-guide.html

http://www.vegeats.com/cache.cgi?www...reekvegan.html

http://www.greek-recipe.com/modules....me=categories4

http://www.faliraki-info.com/susie/g...es/vegetarian/

http://www.edenvegetarian.gr/profile-en.html

Mike Lane

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 03:05:48 +0100, Kim wrote
(in article <[email protected]>) :

    > We are taking a first trip to Greece in July/August, mostly Crete but
    > also Athens and Santorini. Sad to say for convenience sake, we are
    > limited to vegetarian food(vegan - no dairy, no fish). Are there any
    > standard greek dishes/side dishes that are vegan, or any restaurant
    > recomendations.
    >
    > Thanks!

Vegetarianism is not generally a very well understood concept in Greece,
particularly when it excludes cheese. Feta cheese is a common ingredient of
many Greek dishes which would normally be regarded as vegetarian.

However the good news is that vegetables are almost always cooked in
vegetable oil (olive oil if you're lucky), and there are many Greek
vegetarian dishes if you know what to ask for. The obvious choices are
stuffed peppers and tomatoes which are normally stuffed with rice and usually
contain no meat products. Other not so obvious Greek dishes include Imam
Bayeldi ( a kind of stuffed, baked aubergine), and Briam, a very nice
vegetable casserole.


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Dee

"Kim" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > We are taking a first trip to Greece in July/August, mostly Crete but
    > also Athens and Santorini. Sad to say for convenience sake, we are
    > limited to vegetarian food(vegan - no dairy, no fish). Are there any
    > standard greek dishes/side dishes that are vegan, or any restaurant
    > recomendations.
    > Thanks!

There's lots of great things listed in posts before mine (except for
tzatziki for you of course but always stipulate you don't want cheese. I
can't stand cheese in my food and was disappointed to find that a lot of
dishes had it whether it was mentioned on the menu or not.

Marianne Kristiansen

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:00:32 +0100, Dee wrote:

    > (except for
    > tzatziki for you of course

Ooops!

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Alexis Atreides

In news:[email protected],
Mike Lane <[email protected]> typed:


    > Vegetarianism is not generally a very well understood concept in
    > Greece, particularly when it excludes cheese. Feta cheese is a common
    > ingredient of many Greek dishes which would normally be regarded as
    > vegetarian.


Mike,allow me to dissagree with your impression.Our culture,religion,and
poverty (Greece never was a rich country) promoted vegetarianism as
a way of life over the centuries.The term was (is) different : *Fasting*.

Greek households are fasting,up to day to the vast majority,every
Wednesday and Friday each week of the year,plus fasts for a total of
102 days in total, 48 days before Easter 40 days before Christmas
and 1-14 of August.

Fasting means abstinence from meat, fish, dairy products.

In the touristic zones of Greece restaurants and tavernas make the
menu in accordance with the clientele(mostly foreigners).If some Greek
mentions that he is fasting he will be presented with a selection of dishes.
Almost all Greeks are believers and to a degree they fast as much as
they can,until today. :-)

Btw all fasting dishes (vegeterian) are called in Greek LaderA.


Alexis

http://www.goarch.org/en/ourfaith/ar...rticle8125.asp

http://www.goarch.org/en/ourfaith/ar...rticle7070.asp

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...5/ai_106647172

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/3/16

http://aggreen.net/food/recipes.html

Rita

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:00:32 +0100, "Dee" <[email protected]> wrote:

    >"Kim" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >news:[email protected]...
    >> We are taking a first trip to Greece in July/August, mostly Crete but
    >> also Athens and Santorini. Sad to say for convenience sake, we are
    >> limited to vegetarian food(vegan - no dairy, no fish). Are there any
    >> standard greek dishes/side dishes that are vegan, or any restaurant
    >> recomendations.
    >> Thanks!
    >There's lots of great things listed in posts before mine (except for
    >tzatziki for you of course but always stipulate you don't want cheese. I
    >can't stand cheese in my food and was disappointed to find that a lot of
    >dishes had it whether it was mentioned on the menu or not.

Spinach pie is loaded with cheese as well. So are many eggplant dishes.

Stelios Zacharias

On 7 Jul 2004 19:05:48 -0700, [email protected] (Kim)
wrote:

    >We are taking a first trip to Greece in July/August, mostly Crete but
    >also Athens and Santorini. Sad to say for convenience sake, we are
    >limited to vegetarian food(vegan - no dairy, no fish). Are there any
    >standard greek dishes/side dishes that are vegan, or any restaurant
    >recomendations.
    >Thanks!


You say no fish, but what about invertebrate sea dwelling
animals?

In addition to all the good stuff already posted, you might want
to add octopus and squid both done in a variety of ways. Mussels
can also be had on the shelled mollusc front, as can all sorts of
other bivalves that live in the med. These are all allowed under
fasting rules mentioned before (they don't bleed, so they are
ok), and are also very prevalent in the summer.

Stelios
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Stelios Zacharias <[email protected]> wrote:
    > On 7 Jul 2004 19:05:48 -0700, [email protected] (Kim)
    > wrote:

    > You say no fish, but what about invertebrate sea dwelling
    > animals?

Generally vegetarians are people who eat no living beings from the Animal
Kingdom. No fish almost certainly includes any seadwelling animal.

Will fasting restaurants have a good selection of food with no animal
or animal broth in it?


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Dans l'article <[email protected] >,
[email protected] (Kim) a écrit :


    > We are taking a first trip to Greece in July/August, mostly Crete but
    > also Athens and Santorini. Sad to say for convenience sake, we are
    > limited to vegetarian food(vegan - no dairy, no fish). Are there any
    > standard greek dishes/side dishes that are vegan, or any restaurant
    > recomendations.
    > Thanks!

If you get to the island of Aegina, there is a restaurant open only for
dinner called Hippocampos (Sea Horse), near the local stadium, that has some
wonderful vegetarian dishes. There is eggplant salad, carrot salad, broad
beans, blackeyed peas, and my very, very favorite, his lentil puree. I also
love his potatoes, which are sliced thin, then sauteed in olive oil. I
shall be eating these things myself come September, and I can hardly wait.

Donna Evleth

Stelios Zacharias

On 8 Jul 2004 14:59:51 GMT, Juliana L Holm <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >Stelios Zacharias <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> On 7 Jul 2004 19:05:48 -0700, [email protected] (Kim)
    >> wrote:
    >> You say no fish, but what about invertebrate sea dwelling
    >> animals?
    >Generally vegetarians are people who eat no living beings from the Animal
    >Kingdom. No fish almost certainly includes any seadwelling animal.
    >Will fasting restaurants have a good selection of food with no animal
    >or animal broth in it?

Don't think of it in terms of fasting restaurants <g>. All [1]
Greeks are 'required' to fast for a large part of the year. Not
so many do so any more for various reasons, including higher
rates of urbanisation, secularisation and income than previous
generations.

There very many vegetable-only dishes in the vernacular language
of Greek Cuisine for this reason. You do not have to go to a
special restaurant to find such dishes, although avoiding the
very touristy places that do chicken curries and spag.bol. will
help. A proper Greek place should have a selection of vegan
dishes as long as it is not a psistaria - grill house...

The advice in a previous post to look for the ladhera section of
menus is very good. The word is pronuonced "la-the-RA" stress on
final syllable, the pronounced as in the word "then" or "there".
Be sure to check that there is no feta cheese in there, as some
dishes in the lathera section may contain feta although I can't
think of any that do off the top of my head.

You may also like horta/chorta which may be translated as any
manner of silly things in the menus from "greens" to "grass".
This is basically a dish of boiled leafy weed like plants, some
of which are spinach-like, others dandelion-like, depending on
what can be found locally.

Have fun!

Stelios


[1] for values of "all" slightly less than 100%

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Jeremy Henderson

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:35:01 +0300, Stelios Zacharias wrote:


    > You may also like horta/chorta which may be translated as any
    > manner of silly things in the menus from "greens" to "grass".
    > This is basically a dish of boiled leafy weed like plants, some
    > of which are spinach-like, others dandelion-like, depending on
    > what can be found locally.

Bleurgghhh!!! It's vile stuff ;-) Most varieties resemble poke greens or
spinach. My missus loves it - i think it's a thing only Greeks can
appreciate! (My favourite translation of horta is "grass mountain")

More palatable are 'gigantes' - sort of large-size butter bean things.
Anyone who went to school in Britain a goodly number of years ago will
recoil in horror at the mention of butter beans, but these ones are good -
trust me!

J;


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Dee

"Marianne Kristiansen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:00:32 +0100, Dee wrote:
    > > (except for
    > > tzatziki for you of course
    > Ooops!
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I only noticed because it is one of my very favourite things to eat.

Dee