At the foothills of the sacred and highest mountain in Crete – Psiloritis stretches the verdant Amari valley surrounded by villages, endless olive groves, rare nature richness and 1642 aboriginal, nature-found kinds of flora.

Goats and sheep are browsed on wild herbs and grass, drink water from spring and rest under apple and cherry trees in order, the next morning, to offer their milk. The very same milk you wish your children to drink, to make cheese with or get its top cream and spread it on your bread.

The cheese dairy factory of the company Manoukarakis SA is located exactly in the valley of Amari.

Natural Nutritional Value!!!

Crete, the world’s first cheese consumption area, the world’s number one in dairy production. The traditional Cretan way of cheese making comes emblazoned with the latest technology and know-how to bring your cheeses to your table and take off your senses.

So enjoy like the Cretans, plain or with honey, for breakfast or to tie a sauce, on platte or on pies, the Cretan traditional cheeses suit everywhere! Try them and one is for sure, you will love them.

Manoukarakis SA. Products: Graviera P.D.O., Kefalotiri, Kefalotiri Smoked, Anthotiros Dry, Mizithra Fresh, Xynomyzithra P.D.O., Tirozoulo, Sheep & Goat’s white cheese, Gravierino simple or flavored with garlic, chili flakes, thyme or smoked.

However, the characteristic that makes the company and its people proud is the innovation behind the beloved “Amarino” (fresh cream cheese). “The top cream of Psiloriti”. The freshest cheese that can reach your table and be consumed purely or in dozens of salty and sweet recipes.

September 2018

Recipes

by Eva Parakentaki

Cretan Salad with Amarino

Implementation

Pass the tomato into the grater in a bowl, break the rusks into the bowl so that they are boiled from the tomato. Chop the onions and cut the cherry tomatoes in two and salt them with sea salt. In a dish, add the rusks, the tomatoes, the whole Amarino, pour over the olive oil, chop the mint and put it in our salad and finally sprinkle with thyme.

Ingredients

2 Barley rusks

30 tomatoes сherry

6-7 leaves of mint

1 Tomato grated

2 Fresh onions

Sea salt

4 tbl. olive oil

Thyme dry

200gr Amarino