{"id":16311,"date":"2015-10-20T17:55:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/?p=16311"},"modified":"2015-11-08T09:25:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T09:25:36","slug":"a-greek-daily-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/a-greek-daily-dish\/","title":{"rendered":"A Greek daily dish"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fragrant skillet-braised chicken called kotopoulo me dendrolivano<\/em><\/strong> (Rosemary Chicken) is a mainstay in the repertoire of home cooks all over Greece. To me, this is Greek home cooking at its best: maximum flavor extracted from a handful of simple ingredients. Oregano is the herb typically used, but the substitution of rosemary here only underlines the easygoing adaptability that gives the dish its wide appeal.<\/p>\n

First, whole chicken legs are dredged in flour and nestled in a skillet to brown in olive oil. Then a few sprigs of fresh rosemary and a couple of bay leaves go into the skillet along with a glassful of white wine, followed, a few minutes later, by a cup or two of water. And then there’s nothing left to do but cover the skillet and leave the chicken to cook until it’s fall-off-the-bone tender and infused with the fragrance of the herbs.<\/p>\n

The sauce in the bottom of the pan more or less makes itself; a generous squeeze of lemon juice at the end is all it needs to really sing. In the northern city of Thessaloniki it is served with a fluffy rice pilaf; in another part of Greece, it might come to the table with a side of mashed or fried potatoes.
\nBut with a dish this accommodating, you can’t go too wrong serving it with whatever you happen to have in your pantry or your refrigerator on a given evening.<\/p>\n

As it is for wines, there are plenty of great ideas to combine it with. Try a refreshing white<\/em> Moschofilero<\/strong> or a soft red<\/em> Agiorgitiko<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fragrant skillet-braised chicken called kotopoulo me dendrolivano (Rosemary Chicken) is a mainstay in the repertoire of home cooks all over Greece. To me, this is Greek home cooking at its best: maximum flavor extracted from a handful of simple ingredients. Oregano is the herb…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,93,90,92,11,10,2,91],"tags":[99,82,78,96,77,88,85,125,123,124,111,134,133,128,112,79,74,110,89,83,81],"class_list":["post-16311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-gastronomy","category-greece","category-greek-wines","category-people","category-travelling","category-wine","category-wine-tourism","tag-culinary","tag-enotourism","tag-experiences","tag-food","tag-gastronomy","tag-gourmet","tag-greece","tag-greek-food","tag-greek-food-and-wine","tag-greek-food-and-wine-combinations","tag-greek-gastronomy","tag-greek-red-wines","tag-greek-white-wines","tag-greek-wine-experience","tag-greek-wine-tasting","tag-greekwines","tag-tastings","tag-thessaloniki-gastronomy","tag-wineandgastronomy","tag-winetastings","tag-wines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16315,"href":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions\/16315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreekwineexperience.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}