Revithia
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Revithia is a Greek dish consisting of chickpeas baked with onions in a quantity of olive oil
and flavoured with bay leaf and rosemary. Traditionally, the pot is taken to be cooked over-night in the local bakery (φουρνος) oven. Eaten throughout the winter months, Revithia is a good Lenten food.
Davidson, Alan. The Oxford Companion to Food, Oxford University Press, 2006
Olive oil
Olive oil is an oil obtained from the olive , a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. It is commonly used in cooking, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps...
and flavoured with bay leaf and rosemary. Traditionally, the pot is taken to be cooked over-night in the local bakery (φουρνος) oven. Eaten throughout the winter months, Revithia is a good Lenten food.
Footnotes
Davidson, Alan. The Oxford Companion to Food, Oxford University Press, 2006