Clean Monday recipes
Clean Monday, Kathara Deftera, opens Lent and is spent outdoors in Cyprus, with kites and a picnic. The food is fasting food: lagana bread, taramosalata, olives, halva, octopus and shellfish. Here is what goes on the table.
10 recipes

Lenten Moussaka
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Fluffy Koulouri for Clean Monday
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Lagana Bread with Tahini and Ouzo
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Taramosalata with the Aeno Gastrolab
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Taramasalata (Fish Roe Dip)
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Traditional Laganes
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Laganes (Traditional Flatbread)
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Louvana Soup
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Lenten Lagana (Flatbreads for Clean Monday)
DOUGH & SAVORY

Wild Greens Pie (Hortopita)
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