Author: Chef M

Sfouggato is the name given to various egg-based dishes throughout the Greek islands; some are essentially omelets, while others are more like croquettes. But among older Ikarians, sfouggato was a dish that called for quite a different egg than that of the hen: fish eggs, or roe, called tarama in Greek. According to Myrsina Roussou, a sharp-witted woman well into her eighties who recalled her father making this for his male friends, it was (and is!) “the meze for tsipouro [grappa].”

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