Corfu cuisine is a wealth of flavors and spices. Even if you are not particularly hungry, the mere smell of meat seasoned with basil, parsley, dill, mint, garlic or onions will make you salivate. And the flavor of the dishes is such that you can forget about everything in the world, first of all, about your diet.
The specialty hot dishes of the best restaurants and cafes in Corfu (most of them have Russian menu) are considered marinated in olive oil and lemon juice lamb, grilled, fish, shrimps, octopus and squid flavored with herbs. The most popular appetizers are white crumbly feta cheese made from goat's milk and kefalotiri, another type of goat's cheese.
Tourists also like to order inexpensive restaurants in Corfu pasta risoni, which is shaped like a grain of rice, spinach and cheese pies, in which instead of dough thin pastry sheets "filo" are used (they are also used to make baklava with nuts and honey).
Corfu's drinks include ouzo, an alcoholic drink made from grape stalks with aniseed, and retsina, a white wine with a piney aftertaste. And, of course, try the local liqueur made from kumquats.
Here are a few of the original dishes Corfu is famous for:
- Venetian sofrito is a dish of fried slices of beef in a white sauce. It is served with a dressing of finely chopped garlic, parsley, white pepper, white wine, salt and vinegar, and garnished with rice or mashed potatoes;.
- pastitsada - a dish of chicken or beef in tomato sauce with herbs (sometimes it is prepared from fish, adding lobster or octopus meat);.
- cod or soup shark with roasted potatoes and a savory garlic sauce dressing;.
- bourdeto - boiled sea scorpion, soup shark or cod fillet marinated in a spicy sauce of paprika, tomato and lemon juice;
- tsigareli - fried vegetables with spicy tomato sauce (sometimes with minced meat);.
- souvlaki - pieces of fried meat on skewers served with pita;.
- zadziki - fresh cucumber salad dressed in natural yogurt with garlic and seasonings..
