There is an art to using one’s hands in interaction with raw materials, to make something that rewards the palate and fills the table with mouthwatering scents and flavours that open hearts and lift moods. Some foods land on our palate and deliver entire worlds through ingredients that, with respect for our tradition, connect us to the Greek soil.
As I travelled around Greece, trying to discover the delicious ingredients that make up the entire culinary universe of the country, I came across raw materials that continue to transmit the nutritional wisdom of the past. Invited to culinary “temples” of goodness, I discovered the crisp pastry and savoury fillings that enrich people’s lives, through delicious pies that are exquisite and robust in flavour and reflect an everlasting respect and love for those who first made them with their hands.
Some pies free you from the – let’s face it – often challenging process of preparation and effort, without any need to sacrifice the taste, with a satisfying richness in flavours and use of the best materials of the Greek land from all its regions, such as the smoked cheese of Metsovo to the graviera of Crete, from the kasseri of Elassona to the ladotyri of Mytilene. Chrysi Zymi offers you the most delicious creations that reach your hands and decorate your table, made with ‘secret’, age-old know-how for making the perfect dough, the art of pastry-making and the finest ingredients of our land. One of them is the Horefti (dancing) Pie!
The Horefti Pie is a delicious pie made with ingredients of exceptional quality from the traditional Greek diet, selected one by one from the different regions of our country. It contains all the secrets of a successful crispy pastry and a delicious filling, secrets that Chrysi Zymi passes on from generation to generation, preserving traditional local recipes and passing on nutritional wisdom.
You can join in the dance of deliciousness and the crispy enjoyment of an authentic homemade recipe by discovering the Horefti pie in four tasty options: With feta, smoked cheese from Metsovo and Gruyere from Crete, with spinach, mizithra, leek and feta, with chicken, Gruyere and peppers, and finally with Mytilene oil cheese, Gruyere from Crete and Kasseri from Elassona.
As well as being a pie with a solid base and a unique flavour, the Horefti, with its extra virgin olive oil, low fat and oil content, total absence of preservatives and colourings, hydrogenated oils and, in general, structural ingredients from places renowned for their quality, guarantees a high nutritional value.
The Horefti pie of Chrysi Zymi literally dances in all your taste buds, it is the ideal taste function that manages to combine flavours, aromas, quality and tradition through delicious bites.
