Traditional Ios Cuisine - Niot cuisine

Η Ios, despite being a small island, it has a great gastronomic heritage. Boeotian cheeses are the most famous local product (Boeotian, sour, dark) and two modern cheeses use the milk of local sheep and goats. In second place is the olive tree with 70.000 saplings - Koroneiki, Manaki and local salted and red varieties - grown on small estates and on terraces where cereals, sesame, cotton and tobacco used to be grown (a few years ago all the islands were self-sufficient these products). Third in production is the honey used in local sweets.

In addition to capers, which grow on their own, in Ios they grow fava beans, small chickpeas, small tomatoes, a few vegetables, dry melons and watermelons. From meat there are the local goats, while from the fish and the seafood, what the local fishermen do not have enough to supply - which are, after all, are achieved by the Kalymnos fishermen who in summer supply the island and ensure the relative adequacy.

Native cuisine has many delicacies. Dominated by tsimetia (zucchini stuffed with rice), recipes with good local meat, maci (handmade noodles) and mermitzeli (handmade barley) from pasta and a series of pies (kalasouni, ladenies, mossenti).