Sour Trahana

Ksinohondros

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    4 cups

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Foods of Greece

By Aglaia Kremezi

Published 1993

  • About

Trahana, a traditional homemade pasta, is prepared in two ways: sweet and sour.

The first is made with ordinary milk and the latter with milk that has been left to sour naturally. Eggs and herbs can be added to the basic recipe.

There are many different recipes for trahana, some using flour and semolina and some using bulgur, which in the old days was the home-produced wheat ground in stone mills. According to Tassos Mallios, a native of Arcadia in the