Recipes for favorite Greek pudding, creams, and custard desserts, including halvas, rice pudding, and galaktoboureko.
Fruit is the most common way to end a Greek meal, and this pudding is a lovely way to add fruit in a way that tastes great and looks beautiful as well.
This is a very straightforward recipe calling for milk, sugar, eggs, semolina, and orange peel. The bottom of the pie is made up of four sheets of phyllo. A great breakfast or brunch dish, snack, or light dessert.
This basic corn starch vanilla pudding ("krema") is a standard in Greek homes. Suitable for babies, it's also a favorite with children of all ages and, with the addition of fruit, can be adapted to many uses from breakfast to snack to dessert.
A favorite Greek street food and snack, this version of
bougatsa has a custard filling and is sliced and served warm, sprinkled with confectioner's sugar and cinnamon.
One of the most famous phyllo pastries, galaktoboureko is a traditional Greek sweet, soaked in a light lemony syrup after baking. A true special occasion dish.
Galaktoboureko is a favorite dessert, and these individual servings are made with the same delicious custard filling rolled up into neat packets made with phyllo pastry sheets.
This recipe for halvas is made with a honey syrup and without oil. The texture is slightly different than other versions, but the taste is light and delightful.
This delicious dish combines naturally sweet grape must and a little semolina flour to create a texture somewhere between a gelled dessert and a cream, with a unique taste.
This is a simple recipe for dairy-free lemon pudding. Use as a pastry filling, in baked phyllo cups topped with a dot of fruit preserves, or as a light pudding.
There are several different versions of this custard dessert; this is one of the older recipes with almonds and a syrup topping.
Rice pudding is probably a poor translation for this dish, which is a creamy, comfort food that delights every time.
Many versions of halvas (semolina pudding) call for walnuts or a mixture containing walnuts. This version calls for almonds and raisins - and the result is a slightly less tart dessert, delightful topped with a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Halvas can be made in many different ways, and this version is made with honey, nuts, raisins, and the tastes of cinnamon and cloves, for a wonderful dessert.
This version of a favorite dessert is less sweet than some others, and made with walnuts and a light sugar syrup.
This wonderful mousse is perfect to use as a topping on desserts, or to top with your favorite spoon sweet. The recipe calls for thick Greek yogurt, whipping cream, a little plain gelatin, and a touch of sugar.