Author and cook Maria Benardis, founder of Greekalicious, shares a recipe for strawberry spoon sweet dessert.
It is not unusual in a Greek household to be served a “spoon sweet” when you visit someone’s home. This is a traditional offering and it is called a spoon sweet because the usual serving size is a well-filled teaspoon, accompanied by a strong Greek coffee and a glass of icy cold water.
In Greece most of these sweets are prepared at the time of year each fruit is in season and are then preserved for the days when that particular fruit is not available.
Spoon sweets can be made with many fruits, such as cherries, grapes, figs, apricots and berries; citrus fruit such as bitter wild orange and cumquat from Corfu; and nuts such as pistachios and walnuts. The most unusual spoon sweets are those made with rose petals or other types of flower petals, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and eggplant.
I love to serve spoon sweets over ice-cream or some Greek-style yoghurt.
It is not unusual in a Greek household to be served a “spoon sweet” when you visit someone’s home. This is a traditional offering and it is called a spoon sweet because the usual serving size is a well-filled teaspoon, accompanied by a strong Greek coffee and a glass of icy cold water.
In Greece most of these sweets are prepared at the time of year each fruit is in season and are then preserved for the days when that particular fruit is not available.
Spoon sweets can be made with many fruits, such as cherries, grapes, figs, apricots and berries; citrus fruit such as bitter wild orange and cumquat from Corfu; and nuts such as pistachios and walnuts. The most unusual spoon sweets are those made with rose petals or other types of flower petals, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and eggplant.
I love to serve spoon sweets over ice-cream or some Greek-style yoghurt.