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Unique Ingredients in Greek Cooking?

Thread starter ssherie_
Start date Aug 1, 2023

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ssherie_

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I thought I would put together a list of ingredients that might be in Greek cooking that we might not see outside of Greece:

Authentic Greek salt
Greek thyme honey
There's no vanilla extract as far as I can tell - they use packets of vanilla?
Mastic
Mahlepi

Should I add anything else?

k_tsoukalas

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Greek oregano! There's truly nothing like it...

ssherie_

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Oops, can't believe I forgot that one!

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