Meze: a simple term to cover the complex array of delicious small nibbles that may accompany drinks.
Meze An assortment of snacks served either as a starter or as a complete light meal. Especially popular in Asia and usually served including stuffed vine leaves, savoury pastries and spiced dips.
Maydanoz Parsley Meyve Fruit Meze Similar to Spanish tapas, meze is the general category of successive small dishes that begin the Turkish meal. These are eaten, along with wine or raki, until the main course is served.
Mazza is how it is properly transliterated, but this type of food is usually transliterated from the Greek or Turkish, where it is also known, as meze or mezze.
Taramosalata (often misspelled 'taramasalata') is a Greek meze. It is made from tarama, the salted and cured roe of the carp (although cheaper cod roe is often used instead).
Retsina pairs best with strong, spicy, savory foods like those served as appetizers, or meze, in Greece. Many meze integrate pickled, salty, or garlicky ingredients, which counter the strong flavor of the retsina very favorably.
Tzatziki is a traditional Greek appetizer (or meze) made with yogurt and cucumbers. Here, Grace Parisi uses it in addition to mayonnaise as the base for her incredibly tasty potato salad tossed with dill, mint, and serrano chile.
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Be inspired by Persian classics or make a Mediterranean meze menu followed by baklava.
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Bourekia is a Greek hors d'ouvre or meze, made with phyllo pastry stuffed with a variety of fillings and fried.
They are generally served along with sherry or other cocktails and can be something as simple as diced ham and cheese or olives to more showy selections that are almost an entire meal. In Turkey, similar appetizers are referred to as "meze." ...
Serve these hot as a passed appetizer or at a sit-down dinner or meze party. If you are serving it as a passed appetizer, use 6 or 8-inch wooden skewers with fewer pieces of meat on them. You may have to cut the skewers down to size.
In Scandinavian countries, the appetizer course is called a smorgasbord, which may also be a main meal, depending on the variety of the dishes offered. In Turkey, appetizers are called meze and in Spain, tapas.
 See also: Bread, Garlic, Sauce, Salad, Vegetable
  
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