Greek soup "Fakes" - a popular dish in Greece

In Russia, not so often prepare dishes from lentils. Perhaps this is due to the fact that few know what to combine this product with. Adding lemon juice, vinegar or tomatoes can radically change the taste of a lentil dish. I would like to share a recipe for one of the popular dishes in Greece. So, today we have a Greek soup called Fakees on the menu.

In general, traditional Greek cuisine meets all the rules of healthy eating. Firstly, the Greeks use various vegetables, seafood, fish for cooking, and secondly, meat and fish are mostly baked or cooked on charcoal, thirdly, salads are filled not with high-calorie mayonnaise, but with freshly squeezed olive oil, yogurt or lemon juice. In addition, local high-quality products are used to prepare the filling, and there can be no question of any preservatives.

In Greece, a very small number of food products of factory production, however there are quite a few private oil mills, wineries. Therefore, the consistency of yogurt is more like sour cream, and in olive oil , all vitamins are preserved. For the production of cheese, fresh goat, cow or sheep's milk are used. Greeks are accustomed to adding various spices to each dish: mint, parsley, tarragon, pepper, coriander and garlic. So, let's still dwell on the popular Greek dish.

What will it take to make lentil soup?

Let's start preparing the necessary ingredients:

• 5 tbsp. Spoons of sunflower oil.
• Sugar sand - 1 tsp.
• 2 tbsp. Spoons of pasta from tomatoes.
• 300 ml of vegetable broth.
• 5 cloves of garlic.
• 35% cream - 3 tsp.
• 200 g of green lentils.
• 2 red onions.
• Black pepper.
• 4 carrots.
• Salt.
• Dried salvia.
• Seeds of coriander.

Soup "Fakes": recipe for cooking

1. First we'll do lentils: we'll wash it, fill it with cold water and send it for a small fire for 15 minutes. The water level should be about 4 cm above the cereal.
2. While lentils are brewed, we clean vegetables, cut the onion into cubes, chop the garlic (you can just crush it with a knife), cut the carrots along into quarters, and cut them into slices.
3. In the pan, we pour oil (preference is given to olive), warm it well and fry onion with garlic, then add carrots, sugar, season with coriander and sage. Vegetables cook on a small fire for 10 minutes, without forgetting to stir occasionally.
4. In the lentils, add hot broth, salt, tomato paste and fried onions, garlic and carrots. We continue to cook our soup for another 20 minutes. The main thing is that the lentils become soft.
5. Before finishing the cooking, check the Greek soup "Fakes" for salt, if necessary, add salt and season with black pepper.
6. We remove the saucepan from the fire, pour it on plates and decorate with olives.

How to serve?

Greek soup "Fakees" is usually served with a piece of feta cheese, in addition, a prepared dish is poured a teaspoon of olive oil. In Greece, a rather large amount of vinegar is also added. If you can not tolerate this product, you can refuse such a presentation. The fact is that vinegar enriches the aroma of dishes from lentils.

Greek lentil soup with tomato

I would like to consider another option for cooking a favorite dish in Greece. So, prepare the following products:

• Olive oil for frying.
• Half a stalk of celery.
• 12 glasses of water.
• Shredded garlic - about 2 teaspoons.
• Finely chopped onion - 2 tbsp. Spoons.
• Pearl barley is half a glass.
• 2.5 cups of lentils.
• Salt.
• Canned tomatoes - 400 g.
• Black pepper.
• 100 grams of spinach frozen.
• Dry mint.
• 0.5 tsp oregano spoon.
• Yogurt.

In a 5-liter saucepan (it is desirable that the bottom was heavy), pour the oil and heat it over medium heat. There we send onions, celery and garlic. The preparation will take no more than 8 minutes.

We pour in water and start to prepare lentils and pearl barley. When the liquid boils, turn down the fire, cover it, continue cooking for about an hour. The main thing is to make lentils and pearl barbecue soft.

Tomatoes sliced and sent to a pan, there also add salt, mint, pepper, oregano and liquid from tomatoes. Increase the fire to medium and bring to a boil, then reduce to a minimum and continue to cook without a lid.

It remains to add spinach and boil everything for 5-7 minutes. Do not bring to a boil. Ready dish to pour on plates and add to each one spoonful of yogurt.

Today you learned how to make Greek soup "Fakees". Despite the unusual name of the dish, it is prepared very simply, and the cost of ingredients is small. By the way, the next day the soup seems even tastier.