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Cyprus Cuisine
If you want to try some of the best Cyprus dishes you should choose "mezedes".
Mezedes or "meze" is a great way to get to know Cyprus cuisine. You can find "meze" almost in all the restaurants and traditional "tavernes". Meze offer a little taster of many traditional specialties, for a very reasonable set price - usually it cost from CYP 7 to CYP 10. This is an expellant price since the quantity and variety of dishes is huge!
Meze is served in small dishes of everything you can imagine; dips, olives, beans, vegetables, cheeses, sausages, fish, seafood, meats, casserole dishes, salads and fruit. Then just sit back and enjoy the numerous of dishes that keep coming and coming.
The following dishes are typical of the types of dishes you could be served when ordering meze.
Various traditional breads such as "pitta bread"
"feta" cheese
"halloumi" Cheese
Vine ripened tomatoes
"Village salad"
Olives
Sliced artichokes
"Kapari" (caper stalks)
"Lountza" (traditional smoked ham)
"Loukanika" (smoked sausage)
"Tzatziki" (cucumber, yoghurt and garlic dip)
"Houmous" (ground chick peas, with olive oil and garlic),
"Taramasalata" (fish roe dip)
"Octopus"
"Calamari" (deep fried battered squid rings)
"Giant prawns"
"Barbouni" (red mullet)
"Tsipoura" (sea bream)
"Sheftalia" (home-made sausage),
"Koupepia" (stuffed vine leaves)
"Souvla" (large pieces of marinated lamb on the spit)
"Souvlakia" (small pieces of marinated pork on the spit)
"Pagidakia" (lamb chops)
"Afelia" (small pieces of pork cooked with wine)
*(Haloumi is a cyprus cheese and it is tratitional made from a mixture of goat's and sheep's milk by hand. It is white, with layered texture, like mozzarella. It can be grilled, marinated, grated, fried or eaten plain.)
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