Greece Kastoria Agricultural products
| by G. Papas | February 28, 2008
Legumes, fishes, wine, vegetable, fruits and walnuts are an integral part of the Greek Mediterranean Diet, the ideal diet protecting your health!
Legumes
The legumes of Kastoria (beans, lentil, chickpeas, roman beans) have been cultivated since the years of the Lake settlement of Dispilio, Kastoria. Their cultivation is traditional and mild.
The seed used is a local variety and the legumes are unique for three main reasons:
They are extremely easy to cook
They are very thin built, something that gives them smooth taste
They are delicious
The special cultivating technique has to do with:
1. The preservation of the purity of the local brand.
2. The minimization of the use of pesticides and fertilizers.
3. The experience and persistence of the cultivator, who ensures the constant control of the plants, with personal labor.
The fact that in many areas the beans are harvested manually, even nowadays.
Beans
The beans of Kastoria need no introduction; their high quality is recognized all around the country.
Navy beans: Gigantes, Elephantes, Flat beans (for soup).
They are cultivated in almost all settlements of the prefecture. They are easy to cook and they are poor in fats and rich in proteins. They are cooked in the oven; they can be served as a salad, in olla, even in casserole (bean soup).
Beans are the main component of the Mediterranean Diet.
Coloured beans
These are new bean varieties that are different from the navy ones both in terms of colour and taste.
They have highly antioxidant qualities; they taste like a chestnut offering strong gastronomic pleasure.
The beans of Kastoria (specifically Gigantes Elephantes) are recognized as products of Protected Geographic Mark (P.G.M.).
Apples
The special climate of the region offers to the fruits produced an excellent colour, sweetness, and crispiness. The fruit is more than 65mm.
Apples from Kastoria are now labeled as products of Protected Geographic Mark (P.G.M.).
Mushrooms
The edible wild mushrooms are collected from the humid, sunless and leeward woody slopes, as well as from the ravines and valleys of Grammos and Vitsi Mountains or they are cultivated. Mushrooms are of high quality. This is partly due to the climate of the region of Kastoria as well as the lack of acid rain. They have an exquisite taste; a unique flavour and they are free from chemical fertilizers, pesticides and hormones. They can be cooked in various ways (baked, fried, made soup, in the oven, in sauces etc).
Chestnuts
Chestnut is the fruit of the beautiful grafted tree of chestnut tree, which grows in mountainous areas of no more than 600-800 meters.
Chestnuts are beneficial and nutritious (starchy food) and they can be eaten raw, boiled or baked. Another popular way of cooking chestnuts is to make fruit jam that the hospitable people of Kastoria treat to their guests.
Walnuts
Walnut trees grow on the slopes and ravines. Their fruits are harvested in autumn when their outer coat starts blackening. Then they are shelled, washed and sun dried.
Cultivated varieties are divided into three groups: the soft, the semi-hard and the hard ones. Walnuts are extremely nutritious and they are used in the preparation of traditional dishes of Kastoria (walnut liquor, saliari, baklavas).
WINE
The Prefecture of Kastoria http://www.toplink.gr/gr … index.html is favored by its climate and soil and due to the efforts and the experience of its residents, it produces wines of exceptional quality and of nutritious, stimulating and invigorating qualities, which are also exported abroad. Moreover, wines made with biological cultivation are retailed.
Tsipouro
Tsipouro is extracted from the grape husk that is the grape pulp remaining after pressing and the extraction of must for the production of wine. For local people, the extraction of tsipouro procedure is actually a tradition.
Drinking a glass of wine or tsipouro and eating delicacies of Kastoria, such as sarmas, baked mushrooms, pickles with red pepper flakes, spicy peppers, baked potatoes stuffed with traditional feta cheese are enough to make you relax and improve your mood.
Dairy Products
Feta cheese (p.D.D.) of Kastoria is the delicious Greek traditional cheese.
It is produced in modern facilities with traditional techniques based on the skills of the expert cheese makers. It is made of pure sheep and goat milk, with special nutritious qualities, unique taste and top quality.
Kasseri cheese, kephalotyri cheese, kephalograviera cheese of Kastoria (P.O. D.) Three delicious Greek traditional types of hard cheese produced by pure, fresh sheep and goat cheese under strict controlled sanitary conditions. These types of cheese have excellent organoleptic properties, a unique taste and flavour that is the outcome of combining traditional techniques with special maturing places and with high quality, tasteful and flavourful milk from the sheep and goats living at the alpine pasturelands of Kastoria.
Stock Breeding
Stock breeding in the prefecture has significantly grown in the field of production, manufacturing and trading of products, such as meat, milk, wool, leather and dairy products.
Apiculture
Honey is a source of energy for all organisms. It has antiseptic properties, it is invigorating and in general, it contributes at the proper functioning of human organism.
Honey produced in the prefecture is of top quality due to the rich flora as ell as the knowledge and the love of the experienced apiculturists of the region.
Fishing
Large numbers of many kinds of fishes live in the lake of Kastoria. So, deep-water fishing with traditional boats as well fishing with rods from the lake coasts is very popular. Species like carps, silver crucian carps, northern pikes, sheatfishes, perches, tenches, and roaches live in the lake waters.
Lake fishes are very delicious, nutritious and healthy since they are rich in carbohydrates, phosphor, calcium, iron and vitamins.
Accommodation in Kastoria, hotels Kastoria rooms, studios Kastoria apartments: http://www.toplink.gr/gr … index.html
Traveling to western Macedonia Greece: http://www.toplink.gr/gr … index.html
Grevena discover the bridges in this area: http://www.toplink.gr/gr … index.html
Rafting, trekking, climbing in Grevena: http://www.toplink.gr/gr … index.html
Legumes
The legumes of Kastoria (beans, lentil, chickpeas, roman beans) have been cultivated since the years of the Lake settlement of Dispilio, Kastoria. Their cultivation is traditional and mild.
The seed used is a local variety and the legumes are unique for three main reasons:
They are extremely easy to cook
They are very thin built, something that gives them smooth taste
They are delicious
The special cultivating technique has to do with:
1. The preservation of the purity of the local brand.
2. The minimization of the use of pesticides and fertilizers.
3. The experience and persistence of the cultivator, who ensures the constant control of the plants, with personal labor.
The fact that in many areas the beans are harvested manually, even nowadays.
Beans
The beans of Kastoria need no introduction; their high quality is recognized all around the country.
Navy beans: Gigantes, Elephantes, Flat beans (for soup).
They are cultivated in almost all settlements of the prefecture. They are easy to cook and they are poor in fats and rich in proteins. They are cooked in the oven; they can be served as a salad, in olla, even in casserole (bean soup).
Beans are the main component of the Mediterranean Diet.
Coloured beans
These are new bean varieties that are different from the navy ones both in terms of colour and taste.
They have highly antioxidant qualities; they taste like a chestnut offering strong gastronomic pleasure.
The beans of Kastoria (specifically Gigantes Elephantes) are recognized as products of Protected Geographic Mark (P.G.M.).
Apples
The special climate of the region offers to the fruits produced an excellent colour, sweetness, and crispiness. The fruit is more than 65mm.
Apples from Kastoria are now labeled as products of Protected Geographic Mark (P.G.M.).
Mushrooms
The edible wild mushrooms are collected from the humid, sunless and leeward woody slopes, as well as from the ravines and valleys of Grammos and Vitsi Mountains or they are cultivated. Mushrooms are of high quality. This is partly due to the climate of the region of Kastoria as well as the lack of acid rain. They have an exquisite taste; a unique flavour and they are free from chemical fertilizers, pesticides and hormones. They can be cooked in various ways (baked, fried, made soup, in the oven, in sauces etc).
Chestnuts
Chestnut is the fruit of the beautiful grafted tree of chestnut tree, which grows in mountainous areas of no more than 600-800 meters.
Chestnuts are beneficial and nutritious (starchy food) and they can be eaten raw, boiled or baked. Another popular way of cooking chestnuts is to make fruit jam that the hospitable people of Kastoria treat to their guests.
Walnuts
Walnut trees grow on the slopes and ravines. Their fruits are harvested in autumn when their outer coat starts blackening. Then they are shelled, washed and sun dried.
Cultivated varieties are divided into three groups: the soft, the semi-hard and the hard ones. Walnuts are extremely nutritious and they are used in the preparation of traditional dishes of Kastoria (walnut liquor, saliari, baklavas).
WINE
The Prefecture of Kastoria http://www.toplink.gr/gr … index.html is favored by its climate and soil and due to the efforts and the experience of its residents, it produces wines of exceptional quality and of nutritious, stimulating and invigorating qualities, which are also exported abroad. Moreover, wines made with biological cultivation are retailed.
Tsipouro
Tsipouro is extracted from the grape husk that is the grape pulp remaining after pressing and the extraction of must for the production of wine. For local people, the extraction of tsipouro procedure is actually a tradition.
Drinking a glass of wine or tsipouro and eating delicacies of Kastoria, such as sarmas, baked mushrooms, pickles with red pepper flakes, spicy peppers, baked potatoes stuffed with traditional feta cheese are enough to make you relax and improve your mood.
Dairy Products
Feta cheese (p.D.D.) of Kastoria is the delicious Greek traditional cheese.
It is produced in modern facilities with traditional techniques based on the skills of the expert cheese makers. It is made of pure sheep and goat milk, with special nutritious qualities, unique taste and top quality.
Kasseri cheese, kephalotyri cheese, kephalograviera cheese of Kastoria (P.O. D.) Three delicious Greek traditional types of hard cheese produced by pure, fresh sheep and goat cheese under strict controlled sanitary conditions. These types of cheese have excellent organoleptic properties, a unique taste and flavour that is the outcome of combining traditional techniques with special maturing places and with high quality, tasteful and flavourful milk from the sheep and goats living at the alpine pasturelands of Kastoria.
Stock Breeding
Stock breeding in the prefecture has significantly grown in the field of production, manufacturing and trading of products, such as meat, milk, wool, leather and dairy products.
Apiculture
Honey is a source of energy for all organisms. It has antiseptic properties, it is invigorating and in general, it contributes at the proper functioning of human organism.
Honey produced in the prefecture is of top quality due to the rich flora as ell as the knowledge and the love of the experienced apiculturists of the region.
Fishing
Large numbers of many kinds of fishes live in the lake of Kastoria. So, deep-water fishing with traditional boats as well fishing with rods from the lake coasts is very popular. Species like carps, silver crucian carps, northern pikes, sheatfishes, perches, tenches, and roaches live in the lake waters.
Lake fishes are very delicious, nutritious and healthy since they are rich in carbohydrates, phosphor, calcium, iron and vitamins.
Accommodation in Kastoria, hotels Kastoria rooms, studios Kastoria apartments: http://www.toplink.gr/gr … index.html
Traveling to western Macedonia Greece: http://www.toplink.gr/gr … index.html
Grevena discover the bridges in this area: http://www.toplink.gr/gr … index.html
Rafting, trekking, climbing in Grevena: http://www.toplink.gr/gr … index.html
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