Kolokythoboureko

This is a "Kolokythoboureko", a dish from the island of Crete. It is vegetarian, light and delicious! Why? Because its main ingredients are courgettes and potatoes!

Recipe
(makes 4 portions, time of preparation 1 1/2 hour)

Ingredients: 3 courgettes, 2 medium potatoes, 200g mizithra cheese or feta cheese, dried mint, salt, pepper, 1/2 litre bechamel sauce, 100g parmesan cheese.
(You can find easily on the interent the recipe for a bechamel sauce, but be careful to use as flavourings only a pinch of nutmeg and salt and pepper to taste).

Bakes in: 20 x 20 cm glass baking pan (at least 5 cm deep)

1. Cut into 2mm slices the courgettes and potatoes, sprinkle with salt and let them rest in a colander for at least 1 hour. This will allow them to release their water.
2. Preheat the oven at 200 C.
3. Grease the bottom of the pan with a little bit of olive oil or butter. Grate/mash the feta cheese.
4. Cover the bottom of the pan with a layer of potato slices, sprinkle with some feta cheese, mint and pepper.
5. Cover with a layer of courgette slices, sprinkle with feta, mint, pepper.
6. Repeat from step 4 till the slices are over.
7. At last cover with the bechamel sauce and put to the oven.
8. Bake for 1 hour. Switch off the oven. Sprinkle the bechamel sauce with grated parmesan cheese and place again the pan in the oven. Let it rest in the diminishing heat for half an hour.

Best served when cooled. Kali oreksi!