Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Spetzofai, weird name, greeek taste!

Another traditional recipe today, coming from the mountain of the Centaurus, Mt Pelion (remember from the greek mythology the half men half horses?) We combine the sausages with a spicy tomato sauce and peppers with eggplants to make this dish that is called in greek "spetzofai".
It's tasty and according to your style can be used as main dish or as a starter. Here it goes...


Ingredients
some fresh beef sausages (country sausages in Greece) if you like spicy food, choose something spicy, here spanish chorizo sausage
peppers (green bell peppers in Greece, but anything that you can find could do :)
1-2 eggplants
2 potatoes (optionally, especially if you have kids)
2 tomatoes or the equivalent can tomatoes
salt, pepper, olive oil

Procedure
Prepare the vegetables and cut them in big parts. Cut also the sausages in slices or as is if they are small. I live in France, so impossible to find the exact sausages for the recipe, so I use french "diots de savoie" sausages and a spanish chorizo sausage.

 Start by frying slightly the sausages, take them aside and continue by frying again slightly the vegetables.




 Once done, put ALL the ingredients in a low casserole, add water up to half of them, cover and let simmer for about 45min or until it ends up with a nice thick sauce.
Serve with a glass of red wine!

2 comments:

  1. Here I go. I'll be making a fistfull of this dish. Spetzofai!

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    1. I am glad that you like it. You are not the only one though. I used to have a Portuguese neighbor that once tasted it, was cooking it endlessly ;)
      Simple things could be really addictive eventually!

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