Come 'n' cook
Learn the secrets of the Cretan Diet
Nykterida restaurant with a long experience in quality cooking and traditional flavors gives a chance to all foreign visitors to learn the secrets of the Cretan gastronomic heritage.
Restaurant Organizes “Interactive Cocking Lessons of Traditional Cretan Dices” for small and large groups in English Language.
Each group will get to choose, prepare and finally eat all dishes prepared after the local wine tasting at the restaurant’s cellar. Participation, food selection and Date reservation shall be done at least a week in advance.
Cretan Diet is a perfect sample of Mediterranean diet which was characterized as an “intangible cultural heritage” from Unesco.
Archeological excavations in Minoan Palace discovered elements reveal that the main nutritional ingredients are still the same and unalterable. Big stoneware jars with olive oil, honey, grain and pulses combined with the murals where Cretan wild greens and herbs are depicted, suggest that fundamental nutrition is cherished.
People of the island use almost exclusively olive oil as a main ingredient combined with wild greens, vegetables, pulses and less often meat, fish, cheese and of course always with wine!
Nykterida restaurant with a long experience in quality cooking and traditional flavors gives a chance to all foreign visitors to learn the secrets of the Cretan gastronomic heritage.
Restaurant Organizes “Interactive Cocking Lessons of Traditional Cretan Dices” for small and large groups in English Language.
Each group will get to choose, prepare and finally eat all dishes prepared after the local wine tasting at the restaurant’s cellar. Participation, food selection and Date reservation shall be done at least a week in advance.
Culinary Tour Itinerary
- Arrive at Nyktenda Restaurant
- Welcome drink with a shot of Tsikoudia or wild green “stamnagathi” stock served with extra virgin olive oil and lemon
- Short introduction to the history of Cretan Diet
- Visit the wine cellar of the restaurant and local wine tasting
- Cooking Lessons: Group will alternatively prepare starters, salad, main dish and dessert.
- There will be a detailed recipe analysis with the ingredients uses and their nutritional benefits.
- Lunch with the dishes prepared and of course local wine.
We are at your disposal, to chat together, to find the best ideas for your event, for the food, the music, the special decoration of the space.
We have the ability for your event to:
- present
- Cretan flavors
- Classic Greek food
- Flavors from all over the world
- Ninety Wine Labels from all over Greece
- framed by
- Experienced staff for services and reception of guests
- Experienced DJs, antimatters, clowns, dance groups of Greek and Cretan music
- Photographer, cameraman
- includes
- Inflatable park (for children's events)
- Fireworks
- Special decoration, for any kind of event, with flower arrangements, handmade flower arrangements, lighting
- Menu with your brand name
Some of our proposals
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Implementation We mix the cream cheese with mint and salt in a bowl. We fill kolokythanthous (zucchini) and carefully insure them, closing 4 edges carefully so as not to break. Fry them, putting them first in the flour, then in the egg and finally in the breadcrumbs. Fry over high heat from all sides until browned. |
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Implementation Knead, pretty, leaf, stirring all the dry ingredients to liquid and only homogeneous, let it rest. Cut the zucchini into slices of medium thickness and the potatoes a little thinner and season. Add the mint, the cheese olive oil. Mix well to go our materials everywhere. Roll out the dough, making two leaves moderately thick and oil the pan. Spread one sheet, drizzle with olive oil and lay the potatoes first, then the pumpkins and top sprinkle with two tablespoons of flour. We follow the same procedure until all our materials. Finally add the tomatoes and cover with the second sheet. Wet the dough with a little water and sprinkle with white and black sesame. Bake at 180 degrees in preheated oven for one and a half, about an hour until golden brown. Serve soon after you get it out of the oven. |
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For the filling
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Implementation Wash, drain and thick cut grasses and herbs. Then saute with olive oil, chopped onion and drain. |
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Implementation Heat plenty of salted water in a saucepan. Boil, their first askolymprous until cooked the roots and just remove them, boil the beans. Serve them askolymprous with a few beans on each plate, throwing more than enough olive oil and lemon or vinegar. Eaten warm or cold as a salad. |
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For the dressing
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Implementation Peel the oranges and cut into middle size cubes. Peel avocados and cut into vertical slices. Cut the fennel into very thin slices. Put them all together in a bowl. |
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For the dressing Pour all the ingredients in a mixer and mix well. Pour over the salad and toss gently. |
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Implementation With a knife, carve the chestnuts and put them in the oven -for more or over high heat so that they can be peeled easily. Keep aside in a pot and sauté the onions and the garlic in olive oil. Add the mushrooms and the wine. Then we add thw chestnuts, and leave them little to get a brown color in a casserole with the remaining ingredients and the, add the crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, salt and spices. Water is added, almost to cover it and just get the food is ready, lower the heat and leave to patiently to be cooked slowly, stirring occasionally. It may need to add water. Once the sauce thickens our food is ready. |
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Implementation With a sharp knife cut the meat into thin slices. |
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Implementation In a wide pan pour the oil and let it burn. Then sauté the pieces of rooster on both sides and forced out of the pot. Then add the onion with the garlic, sauté and add the wine. Allow the alcohol to evaporate and then add the tomatoes, salt, pepper, sugar and let them get 1-2 boils. Then add the rooster in the pot with hot water and parboil. When the cock is soft (not too), pour in a pan with the pasta and put it in the oven for about 40 minutes at 180 degrees. |