Greek Recipes for Fried Vegetables

The soda water batter is what makes these thinly sliced strips of eggplant so delightful. Quick frying in hot oil keeps the eggplant from getting oil-soaked. Enjoy as a side dish or, with other dishes, as a meze.

These fried zucchini are often served as an appetizer/meze as well as a side dish. Soda water in the batter makes them delightfully airy and crunchy.

Florets of fresh or frozen cauliflower fried in a light batter, served with the classic Greek oil and lemon sauce, latholemono.

A simple recipe for mushrooms dredged in flour and fried, in Greece this is most frequently made with oyster or porcini mushrooms.

Fried potatoes are a favorite meze to serve with drinks, side dish, and combined with feta cheese, are even eaten as a main dish for a light meal. Greeks prefer crispy potatoes and here's how they get them right every time.

This is a quick and easy recipe for a delightful appetizer, meze, or side dish. It calls for sweet peppers (bull's horn work very well) and the dish is garnished with garlic and fresh parsley.