Cretan rusk

Once you learn how to make this Greek barley rusk recipe (paximadi kritiko) you'll never go back! Originating in Crete, these healthy rusks will bring a Mediterranean vibe to your table. Use them to make Dakos salad, add them to your Greek salad (Horiatiki) or just briefly soak them with water and enjoy them as a healthy snack with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and a pinch of sea salt flakes.

Bring the Mediterranean straight to your plate with our Greek rusks recipe. These twice-baked bread crisps are incredibly crunchy and have a unique barley flavour.

Cretan barley rusks (Dakos - Ντάκος) · Me To Mati

Authentic Greek Cretan Dakos is originally prepared with barley rusk, which has many health benefits. It is very low in fat and extremely high in fiber, making its digestion easier even than other types of breads. Extra virgin olive is another essential ingredient for this recipe or any other Mediterranean diet recipe!

This recipe for grilled fish with Cretan rusk salad with tomato, oregano and feta comes from Morito in Hackney. It's easy, ready in 30 minutes and low-cal

On our recent holiday to Crete we fell in love with the Cretan version of bruschetta called dakos. It’s just tomatoes and feta on a barley rusk, but it’s delicious. Recently Soph found …

Authentic Greek Barley Rusks – Paximadi Kritiko - Olive Tomato

Dakos is a traditional Cretan dish made of barley rusk, tomato, mitzithra or feta cheese, olives topped with the best Cretan virgin oil.

"Cretan dakos also known as ntakos is a much loved traditional Greek Cretan salad. Super simple to make it consists of a Cretan barley rusk topped with juicy tomatoes, cheese and olive oil. Follow this Dakos Salad recipe for delicious Greek Mediterranean flavors. | Authentic Food Quest "

In South Africa, writers Errieda du Toit and Daleen van der Merwe offer history and instruction on the region’s famed buttermilk rusk.

Learn how to make and prepare the recipe for Cretan style rusks.

You can eat paximadia in different ways, but the Cretan recipe Dakos is the most famous. It’s traditionally eaten with Cretan Mitzithra cheese, but you often see it (outside of Crete) made with feta. Dakos is simply rusks, tomatoes, feta and olive oil and it’s so delicious!

They say that the best food in Greece can be found on Crete. Not only is it a fertile island with an abundance of local produce bursting with flavor but also the recipes handed down from generation…

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Dakos Salad (Cretan Tomato & Barley Rusk) — Creamy Confusion

Authentic Greek Barley Rusks – Paximadi Kritiko - Olive Tomato

These are not traditional recipes a Greek yiayia (grandmother) would make, just some quick and easy recipes that are useful when you don’t have the time or the inclination to do too much, but want something healthy and that makes use of traditional Mediterranean ingredients. I make these when I have a lot of cherry...

Adapted from Feasting and Fasting in Crete, Delicious Mediterranean Recipes, by Diana Farr Louis (Kedros, Athens, 2001). Reprinted in the Summer 2006 Greek Gourmet Traveler for Kerasma. A word about "Rusks" known in the Greek as "Paximadia": "Twice-baked breads have been around since Roman times, but in Crete they are both staple and luxury. Made of every conceivable type of flour from refined white to coarse wheat and barley, they accompany every meal, crumbled into salads or springing up…

Tannie Maria's famous muesli buttermilk rusks from the book Recipes for Love and Murder by Sally Andrew