Sheftalia, a Traditional Cypriot Food
In a Cyprus meze you will find Sheftalia often among a wide variety of dishes.
What is Sheftalia?
Sheftalia are grilled until they are golden brown, what takes about 20 minutes. They taste best when grilled on charcoal.
Often sheftalia are served in pita bread together with chopped tomato, onion, cucumber and parsley as well as some lemon juice.
Recipes for Sheftalia
- Recipe: Sheftalia (Cyprus) Grilled Cypriot Sausage
- This Greek Cypriot crépinette, a sausage without skin, uses caul fat, or omentum, the membrane that surrounds the stomach, to wrap the ingredients rather than sausage casing.
- Sheftalia Greek Takeaway
- When making sheftalia, the traditional Greek way is to use minced pork, but you can substitue lamb mince to make this dish if you prefer.
- Greek Sausage: Sheftalia
- Nice change to eat at a barbecue. Crispy seasoned sausages with a nice flavor. Eat in a pita with chopped tomato, parsley, onion, cucumber, and tahini. Add plenty of lemon. Yummy
- Sheftalia - Cypriot Sausage
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ideas and information from Cyprus - RecipeSource: Sheftalia (Barbeque Sausages)
- Tip: Excessive flaring of fire can be controlled by a sprinkle of water on the coals. Serve sheftalia as an appetizer or a main course.
Sheftalia, best prepared on Charcoal Grills
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dash1 wrote...
Trying to get hold of the ingrediants for Sheftalia is not the easiest thing, you cant get the caul fat and pork fatback from a regular butcher, need to try to locate a butcher that slaughters. Can someone suggest replacements for them? If made properly these are one of the best sausages/meatballs that I have ever tasted.
Posted July 02, 2009
mulberry wrote...
This certainly looks good. I get bored if I have to eat the same things over and over. I need to figure out where I can get some Sheftalia!
Posted June 11, 2009
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