Greek

It’ll take a couple of hours to make the homemade broth and cook a whole chicken (your house will smell amazing) for this soup recipe. If you’ve had a long day, use 2 quarts store-bought broth and shredded meat from a rotisserie chicken. Whatever method you choose, use the chicken breasts to make this amazing salad with crispy rice. Check out step-by-step photos here.

Traditional Greek skordalia is mostly garlic and olive oil with some potato or nuts added to thicken it. We flipped the ratio in this recipe: more potato, less garlic. Serve as a dip, or thin out with lemon juice and olive oil and use as a sauce for fish.

Can you buy pocketless pita instead? Sure. But nothing beats the drama of freshly made bread. Use these for our Lamb Gyros.

Grilling and then roasting adds smoky notes to the lamb and jump-starts the browning.

You might not be able to fly to Mykonos, but you can definitely make these Greek-inspired recipes at home.

A cooling, slightly garlicky spread that’s great with braised lamb tonight and possibly even better when added to a lamb sandwich tomorrow.

This weeknight chicken soup goes Greek with orzo, lemon juice, and a handful of fresh dill.

Saganaki, a traditional Greek preparation named after the pan in which it’s prepared, is best served straight from the skillet, with plenty of toasted bread for scooping up the savory tomato sauce. If you can find them, wild American shrimp and high-quality Greek feta really make this dish special.

Giblets (the heart, liver, gizzard, and neck) really deepen a gravy's flavor.

The fragrant spices in ras-el-hanout bring a moroccan flavor to pastitsio, the classic Greek pasta dish.