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Close-up of Greek ‘Kritharaki’ food means orzo pasta cooked with tomatoes sauce

Kritharaki

Kritharaki or manestra is an orzo pasta that is very popular in Greek cuisine. In the shape and size of a large grain of rice or wheat, it gets its name from barley, but it made is from hard wheat semolina which is first fermented in water and then pressed through a mold that gives it its shape.

Close-up of Greek ‘Kritharaki’ food means orzo pasta cooked with tomatoes sauce and peces of meat

Kritharaki is the basis for many dishes: with seafood, with okra, with shrimp, with sesame pulp, with grilled vegetables, with meat, with mushrooms and in numerous combinations and variations of dishes cooked in the oven or in a pot.

Kritharaki is popular in the Balkans, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

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