The Khronicles

 The Bilingual Community Newspaper

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    ISSUE NO. 44 DECEMBER 2009 WWW.KO-GO.GR    

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The Khronicles

A division of

Ko-Go Επιχειρήσεις

Box 332
Kokkini Hani 71500
Web address: www.ko-go.gr
editor@ko-go.gr
Telephone: 2810-762748
Fax: 2810-762816

Publisher:

Sofia Klidi

Editor:

Lou Duro

Associate Editors:

Tony & Christine Bowes

Web Editor

John McLaren

Contributors/
Columnists:

Renie Spykerman, Petra Karreman, Maria Daskalaki, John McLaren, Bob Bayes, Father Dimitris Mihouthis, Father Leonidas Hatzakis, Vasiliki Alexaki-Hronaki, Michalis Vardakis, Niki Yiamalaki, Dr. Vangelis Athousakis, Nikolaos Papadakis, Spyros Hatzakis, Jasmine Farsarakis

Translations:

Ada Vamvoukaki

Photographer:

Sami Moudavaris

Layout & Design:

George Drakakis

Printed By:

G Detorakis





COOKING

By Christine Bowes



This month's celebrity chef is Maria Poursanidou, the creative culinary wizard behind the success of Katafigio Meze House in Kokkini Hani. While Maria, a native of Thessaloniki, turns out a masterful array of mezes for Katafigio, her many years of experience cooking in Crete as well as the main land, have enabled her to create a wide variety of dishes. Here, in time for the holidays, she shares her special recipe for stuffed turkey.

Ingredients

A medium size turkey – 2 ½ kilos
A big onion, sliced
The turkey liver (for extra taste add some chicken livers) chopped
½ glass of Carolina type rice, rinsed
7-8 large chestnuts, boiled and cleaned
A few light-colour raisins
2 laurel leaves
A bit of pine nuts
Black pepper to taste
All spice
½ cup chicken broth
Salt, Cinnamon, Mustard, Oregano to taste
2 kilos of small, peeled, round potatoes
2 lemons, juiced
Olive oil


Preparation

Sauté the onion with some olive oil. Add the livers and sauté them with the onion. Then, add the rice. Continue sautéing and add the black pepper, the all spice, the raisins, the pine nuts, the salt, the cinnamon and the chestnuts and mix them to combine the flavours and aromas.

Add the ½ cup of broth and leave the stuffing to boil until all the broth is absorbed. Meanwhile, wash and clean the turkey and, holding it upright, fill with stuffing. Don’t press on the stuffing, so that it will have room to expand when cooking. Pour on a little water and then stitch the back side.

Salt the turkey very well and brush it with mustard and then put it in the baking pan. Grind some black pepper and some oregano over the turkey. Bake at first in 250ο C for ½ hour.  Then, put the potatoes around the turkey and brush them also with mustard.  Pour enough olive oil and water to almost cover the potatoes, pour over the lemon juice and bake in low temperature of 180ο C until the turkey and potatoes get a nice colour.





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