Her night Resurrection It has something magical. Not only for the light that pops up from the candles, the bells that ring and the wishes whispered with longing, but also for the smells that begin to sprinkle with the kitchens – smells familiar, familiar, almost ritual.
In every house, in every corner of Greece, the cook simmeres like a delicious memory that revives every year at the same time.
There is no one and only recipe. Each family has its own recipe for cookthe “right” – because this is how the grandmother made her, because this is how her mom remembers her since her childhood. With intense eggplant or lighter, with or without rice, with plenty of lettuce or simpler, with rich offal or distinctive pieces for taste. Every ladle that mixes the food is like rewriting a family story.
The cook is not just the food that breaks the fast. It is the transitional dish – the first sip of life “after”, full of warmth and tradition. It is a soup that warms not only the stomach but also the soul. And every time you eat it, it’s like returning home – even if you have years to press its threshold.
Each family makes differently the cookdepending on the recipe that passes from generation to generation and its traditions.
With more or less eggplants, with or without rice, with lettuce and/or other herbs, with few or many lamb offal, the cook is the predominantly dish of the Resurrection. Why is it consumed after fasting, and what is its nutritional value?
According to the book “Food & Greek Food Compositions” by Professor Antonia Trichopoulou, the cook provides 100 grams of ready -made food:
208 calories
15.3 gr. proteins
14.4 gr. Total lipids (2.7 g saturated, 7.5 g monounsaturated)
188 mg cholesterol
4.5 gr. carbohydrates.
This recipe also contains many vitamins and trace elements.
Among other things per 100 grams of ready -made soup provides:
271 mg potassium
38 mg of calcium
15 mg magnesium
195 mg phosphorus
6.6 mg of iron
1.8 mg of zinc
14 mg Vitamin C
100 grams, however, do not correspond to one serving. One serving of restaurant corresponds to 350 grams, in accordance with the market provisions. Therefore, in order to calculate the ingredients per serving, you need to multiply them by 3.5. That is, a large dish of cook can contain over 700 calories and 650 mg of cholesterol!
In addition, the aforementioned measurement concerns a specific recipe analyzed.
This recipe is, according to the book:
800 grams of liver
130 gr. onions
40 gr. dill
200 gr. water
100 gr. olive oil
380 gr. lettuce
40 gr. rice
For the eggplant
90 gr. lemon juice
2 eggs
This recipe corresponds to 1,170 grams of cooked food that produces about 4 servings of food.
How to reduce cholesterol and fat
To reduce the calorie load, fat and cholesterol it contains, reduce olive oil first. It will be just as delicious if you put 4 tablespoons (about 60 g) instead of 100 g.
In the eggplant, remove eggs. If e.g. Your traditional recipe had 2 whole eggs, put 1 whole egg and egg white from 2 more eggs.
It is also advisable to avoid eating anything else on the night of the Resurrection, he adds. This applies to red eggs, other meats, pies, sweets, buns and cookies.