Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Not only does it gives you energy to start a new day but breakfast is capable of benefiting you in many different ways. It provides you with various nutrients that lead to increased concentration in the classroom. Studies show that breakfast can be important in maintaining a healthy body weight and also people who tend to skip breakfast are unlikely to make up their daily requirement for some vitamins and minerals that a simple breakfast would have provided.
Preparing a good breakfast can be as quick and easy as splashing some milk over cereal or making oatmeal or a healthy smoothie. So, considering all the benefits that the breakfast provides you with, you need to perceive that by eating this quite significant meal you provide yourself with the energy you need in order to keep up with your everyday activities!
Each part of Greece, depending on the climatic conditions, the soil, the produced products and the cultural relations and exchanges, has formed a particular gastronomic culture and local cuisines. Although the foundation of gastronomy is common, each region has its own gastronomic treasures and so the characteristics of the Cretan cuisine for example differ from those of Macedonia, of Epirus, of the Peloponnese, of the Aegean islands etc.
While visiting the beautiful and mesmerizing places of Greece you can have the opportunity to try some of the most tasting and traditional foods someone can offer you for breakfast. Most people consider that the Greek breakfast doesn’t exist or it is made up of a cigarette and a coffee
While the Greek breakfast was never a huge meal, except perhaps for the farmers there is a large variety of traditional Greek breakfast foods and recipes from different parts of Greece, which would be a great addition to any hotel breakfast buffet.
In this way many people will have the opportunity to come closer to the tradition of Greece. For example , you may find local savory pies made with local cheese homemade Greek fruit preserves, local sausages and cured meats, Greek cookies , bread, feta cheese and local cheeses , olives and paximadia ( Greek rusks ). It is worth a visit to Greece to try galatopita ( milk pie ) , tiganites ( Greek pancakes ) with tahini and petimezi ( grape molasses ) , trahana ( pellet-shaped pasta made with milk ) with feta cheese and the omelet with the famous graviera cheese from the island of Naxos , as well as the siglino ( smoked pork ) from Mani.
Nutritionally , the majority of these choices are protein-rich and starchy as they were based on traditional eating habits of the Greek years ago , who needed a hearty breakfast to get them through a day of hard work.
Taking into account this fact , this type of breakfast can act more as a brunch and keep you full until dinner. Or you can elect to eat something lighter like Kalamata olives served with paximadia ( rusks ) from the island of Kythia, koulouri ( round bread covered with sesame seeds )accompanied with graviera cheese and of course the famous Greek yogurt with Greek thyme honey.
Just don’t forget to accompany these delicious choices with a Greek coffee or traditional herbal teas. Although varying from one place to another Greek breakfast never fails to pair the abundance of tastes and aromas with the values of simplicity , clarity and purity. A traveler has a vast variety of destinations to choose from, each of them boasting a unique culinary tradition.
Monday:Greek breakfast from Thessaly
Thessaly has a great range of products: milk , yogurt , butter , various types of cheese , black kneaded bread , olive oil , fruit and vegetables marmalade and pies and hot frumenty.
BREAKFAST SERVED IN THESSALY :
Olive bread
Cheese from Elassona
Kaseri cheese
Galotyri
Grilled sausages of Trikala
Thyme honey and milk pie
Local traditional marmalades and Farsala halvas
Chicken pie
Tuesday: Breakfast of Cyclades islands
The Cycladic islands’ geomorphology along with the sea , the wind and the sun determines the special features and the quality of the pruducts that are produced on their land.
CYCLADIC BREAKFAST INCLUDES :
Traditional bread sticks
Kopasini from Mykonos: soft brine cheese with an intense spicy flavor.
Aged Graviera from Naxos: hard cheese white-yellow with a salty and buttery taste.
Manoura from Sifnos: hard cheese with a special wine-like flavor.
Froutalia from Andros: traditional omelet with potatoes and smoked aniseed sausases.
Melitinia from Tinos and Santorini : an Easter sweet filled with cream and cheese.
Wedsday: Breakfast from Crete
What can one say about Crete where life expectancy rates are the highest in the whole country ? Cretan diet is ideal not to say indispensable for healthy living. There are many ingredients than can guarantee you a delicious breakfast.
CRETAN BREAKFAST INCLUDES :
Rusks
Moustokouloura
Graviera with honey
Xynomyzithra
Sygkliko(salted and smoked pork)
Sausages
Cream cheese pies
Xerotigana( fried thin plies of dough)
Boureki from Chania
Bougatsa
Thursday:Breakfast from Ioannina( mainland Greece)
Delicious tastes from Epirus , the north- western part of Greece where the Mediterranean climate prevails.
BREAKFAST IN IOANNINA INCLUDES:
Trahana
Regional pies with honey or marmalade
Handmade pastry
Different types of cheese
Bread
Galatopita
Prasopita (pie with leek)
Trahanopita (pie filled with trahana)
Friday: Breakfast from Thessaloniki
This is a place in which you can find many different tastes that can make you understand that here in Greece we taste different kind of that actually is the same.
BREAKFAST IN THESSALONIKI INCLUDES:
Koulouri
Bougatsa
Omelets
Tiganites with honey or
tahini
Trigona panoramatos (traditional dessert with cream)
Saturday: Breakfast from Lakonia area
Freshly kneaded whole wheat bread roll with yeast
Crunchy rusks with anise and mastic
Fruit salad of the season and freshly squeezed orange juice
Omelet with eggs of the day baked with zucchinis potatoes anthotyro cheese of Tripolis and syglino of Monemvasia
Strapatsada with anhydrous and sun dried tomato
Sunday: Breakfast from Ionian islands
"Fogatsa"
Peppery "koutsouli"
Cake with fruit
Village style rusks
Loaf with yeast
Bread rolls filled with cheese
Eight grain with "ladotyri" cheese
"Lagana" with "nouboulo" and "feta" cheese
"Tsitsibyra" (fizzy local drink with ginger, lemon and sugar)
Kumquat liqueur
Greek coffee
Chickpeas coffee
Chamomile
"Milovagia" (sage)
Mountain tea
"Rozada" (with sugar and egg yolk)
"Boustatsonia" (biscuits with almonds)
Pudding with yoghurt from Corfu
Venetian panna cotta
"Tsaletia" (type of "tiganita")
"Tiganites" with honey
Dry "tzintzola" (with raisins and sesame)
"Mandoles" (caramelized roasted almonds)
Sweet trahanas
Pudding
Bergamot sweet
Quince sweet
"Ryzogalo" with flower honey
"Pasteli"
"Bianketa" ("amygdalota")
"Fitouli" (semolina with sugar and cinnamon)
references
http://www.visitgreece.gr/en/gastronomy/greek_breakfast
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-paravantes/traditional-greek-breakfast_b_2630496.html
http://www.olivetomato.com/the-elusive-greek-breakfast/
http://www.greekbreakfast.gr/en/greek-breakfast/breakfast-per-region
Preparing a good breakfast can be as quick and easy as splashing some milk over cereal or making oatmeal or a healthy smoothie. So, considering all the benefits that the breakfast provides you with, you need to perceive that by eating this quite significant meal you provide yourself with the energy you need in order to keep up with your everyday activities!
Each part of Greece, depending on the climatic conditions, the soil, the produced products and the cultural relations and exchanges, has formed a particular gastronomic culture and local cuisines. Although the foundation of gastronomy is common, each region has its own gastronomic treasures and so the characteristics of the Cretan cuisine for example differ from those of Macedonia, of Epirus, of the Peloponnese, of the Aegean islands etc.
While visiting the beautiful and mesmerizing places of Greece you can have the opportunity to try some of the most tasting and traditional foods someone can offer you for breakfast. Most people consider that the Greek breakfast doesn’t exist or it is made up of a cigarette and a coffee
While the Greek breakfast was never a huge meal, except perhaps for the farmers there is a large variety of traditional Greek breakfast foods and recipes from different parts of Greece, which would be a great addition to any hotel breakfast buffet.
In this way many people will have the opportunity to come closer to the tradition of Greece. For example , you may find local savory pies made with local cheese homemade Greek fruit preserves, local sausages and cured meats, Greek cookies , bread, feta cheese and local cheeses , olives and paximadia ( Greek rusks ). It is worth a visit to Greece to try galatopita ( milk pie ) , tiganites ( Greek pancakes ) with tahini and petimezi ( grape molasses ) , trahana ( pellet-shaped pasta made with milk ) with feta cheese and the omelet with the famous graviera cheese from the island of Naxos , as well as the siglino ( smoked pork ) from Mani.
Nutritionally , the majority of these choices are protein-rich and starchy as they were based on traditional eating habits of the Greek years ago , who needed a hearty breakfast to get them through a day of hard work.
Taking into account this fact , this type of breakfast can act more as a brunch and keep you full until dinner. Or you can elect to eat something lighter like Kalamata olives served with paximadia ( rusks ) from the island of Kythia, koulouri ( round bread covered with sesame seeds )accompanied with graviera cheese and of course the famous Greek yogurt with Greek thyme honey.
Just don’t forget to accompany these delicious choices with a Greek coffee or traditional herbal teas. Although varying from one place to another Greek breakfast never fails to pair the abundance of tastes and aromas with the values of simplicity , clarity and purity. A traveler has a vast variety of destinations to choose from, each of them boasting a unique culinary tradition.
Monday:Greek breakfast from Thessaly
Thessaly has a great range of products: milk , yogurt , butter , various types of cheese , black kneaded bread , olive oil , fruit and vegetables marmalade and pies and hot frumenty.
BREAKFAST SERVED IN THESSALY :
Olive bread
Cheese from Elassona
Kaseri cheese
Galotyri
Grilled sausages of Trikala
Thyme honey and milk pie
Local traditional marmalades and Farsala halvas
Chicken pie
Tuesday: Breakfast of Cyclades islands
The Cycladic islands’ geomorphology along with the sea , the wind and the sun determines the special features and the quality of the pruducts that are produced on their land.
CYCLADIC BREAKFAST INCLUDES :
Traditional bread sticks
Kopasini from Mykonos: soft brine cheese with an intense spicy flavor.
Aged Graviera from Naxos: hard cheese white-yellow with a salty and buttery taste.
Manoura from Sifnos: hard cheese with a special wine-like flavor.
Froutalia from Andros: traditional omelet with potatoes and smoked aniseed sausases.
Melitinia from Tinos and Santorini : an Easter sweet filled with cream and cheese.
Wedsday: Breakfast from Crete
What can one say about Crete where life expectancy rates are the highest in the whole country ? Cretan diet is ideal not to say indispensable for healthy living. There are many ingredients than can guarantee you a delicious breakfast.
CRETAN BREAKFAST INCLUDES :
Rusks
Moustokouloura
Graviera with honey
Xynomyzithra
Sygkliko(salted and smoked pork)
Sausages
Cream cheese pies
Xerotigana( fried thin plies of dough)
Boureki from Chania
Bougatsa
Thursday:Breakfast from Ioannina( mainland Greece)
Delicious tastes from Epirus , the north- western part of Greece where the Mediterranean climate prevails.
BREAKFAST IN IOANNINA INCLUDES:
Trahana
Regional pies with honey or marmalade
Handmade pastry
Different types of cheese
Bread
Galatopita
Prasopita (pie with leek)
Trahanopita (pie filled with trahana)
Friday: Breakfast from Thessaloniki
This is a place in which you can find many different tastes that can make you understand that here in Greece we taste different kind of that actually is the same.
BREAKFAST IN THESSALONIKI INCLUDES:
Koulouri
Bougatsa
Omelets
Tiganites with honey or
tahini
Trigona panoramatos (traditional dessert with cream)
Saturday: Breakfast from Lakonia area
Freshly kneaded whole wheat bread roll with yeast
Crunchy rusks with anise and mastic
Fruit salad of the season and freshly squeezed orange juice
Omelet with eggs of the day baked with zucchinis potatoes anthotyro cheese of Tripolis and syglino of Monemvasia
Strapatsada with anhydrous and sun dried tomato
Sunday: Breakfast from Ionian islands
"Fogatsa"
Peppery "koutsouli"
Cake with fruit
Village style rusks
Loaf with yeast
Bread rolls filled with cheese
Eight grain with "ladotyri" cheese
"Lagana" with "nouboulo" and "feta" cheese
"Tsitsibyra" (fizzy local drink with ginger, lemon and sugar)
Kumquat liqueur
Greek coffee
Chickpeas coffee
Chamomile
"Milovagia" (sage)
Mountain tea
"Rozada" (with sugar and egg yolk)
"Boustatsonia" (biscuits with almonds)
Pudding with yoghurt from Corfu
Venetian panna cotta
"Tsaletia" (type of "tiganita")
"Tiganites" with honey
Dry "tzintzola" (with raisins and sesame)
"Mandoles" (caramelized roasted almonds)
Sweet trahanas
Pudding
Bergamot sweet
Quince sweet
"Ryzogalo" with flower honey
"Pasteli"
"Bianketa" ("amygdalota")
"Fitouli" (semolina with sugar and cinnamon)
references
http://www.visitgreece.gr/en/gastronomy/greek_breakfast
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-paravantes/traditional-greek-breakfast_b_2630496.html
http://www.olivetomato.com/the-elusive-greek-breakfast/
http://www.greekbreakfast.gr/en/greek-breakfast/breakfast-per-region