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Sifnos is the birth place of many a great chef perhaps the most famous of them all is Nicholas Tselementes and also the chef Marko,
the island is known for her delicious cuisine and traditional dishes:
Much requested are the Sifnian home-made sweets and pastries:
the island is known for her delicious cuisine and traditional dishes:
- fried chick-pea pies (revithokeftedes)
- manoura (fresh semi-soft cheese)
- mizithra (cottage cheese)
- green beans from the vineyard with garlic sauce
- chick-peas roasted in the traditional way (cooked in sealed ceramic pots in wood-fired oven)
- caper salad (capers grow wild all over the island in the crevices of rocks)
- roast lamb "mastelo" (the meat is roasted in the oven over branches from the vine with local red wine and dill - mastelo is the name given to the ceramic cooking pot)
Much requested are the Sifnian home-made sweets and pastries:
- almond paste cookies
- bourekia (filo pastry filled with almonds, honey and sesame)
- pasteli (sesame bar with honey)
- "Loli"
- bread rings
- honey pie (ingredients: honey and local cottage cheese)
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