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The island of Corfu (Kerkyra) has a large variety of local dishes. Most of the traditional local dishes of Corfu have names that originate from Italy. It is obvious that the corfiot cuisine has influences from Italy, due to the time of the Italian domination. What we give you here is a brief description of the most characteristic corfiot dishes. Of course not all places in Corfu now days cook these dishes in a traditional manner. They might have simplified some of the recipes as we have done in our electronic cookbook.
Bourdheto: The name of this dish, which is also used in other Ionian islands as well, comes from the Venetian word brodeto, which means broth. Bourdheto is fish cooked with tomato sauce, garlic, onion and spicy pepper. In Corfu when they cook Bourdheto they mostly cook Scorpio, a red fish with white meat, many bones and poisonous thorns. Scorpio is a rather expensive fish and is also used in Greece for making the famous "kakavia" fish soup. In Cephalonia and other places they make bourdheto with smaller and cheaper fish.
Sofrito: This is a veal filet, simmered with garlic, parsley sticks and marjoram. It is garnished with roast potatoes or rice. Sofrito is considered probably the most famous Corfiot dish. Recipe available
Sofrito is the most representative dish of Corfu
Pastitsada: This is meat with tomato sauce, clove, cinnamon and onion cooked in casserole and served with macaroni. When cooking pastitsada you can use beef, chicken or rooster. They also make pastitsada with octopus or even lobster. You can find the same dish, when cooked with rooster, named differently in other areas of Greece as well. Recipe available
Pastitsada served in a taverna near Paleokastritsa
Bianco: This is fish cooked in a white sauce. The fish that is mostly used is cod. The sauce contains garlic, lemon juice and oil. The fish is cooked together with potatoes.
Ginger beer: This is a famous corfiot drink. It is made with ginger in powdered form, sugar and lemon juice.
Ginger beer served in Liston
Strapatsada: This is a kind of omelette. The smashed eggs are mixed with tomato sauce, oregano or thyme and optionally green pepper. Recipe available
Tzaletia: This is a dough fried in olive oil like a pancake with some icing sugar on top.
Koum-quat: A famous liquer. Koum-quat can be also a sugared fruit.
Selling koum-quat drink in the town of Corfu
Mandola: As the italian name reveals, mandola is almond, which has been caramelised
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