Skordalia is a recipe that was used lengthy earlier than the introduction of the potato into the Greek food regimen. The Byzantine empire, which stretched over Greece to the boot of Italy and all through Turkey starting round 330 A.D. made skordalia utilizing Mediterranean parsnips, nuts, and bread and used it as a sauce to cowl their meats, fish, and greens (through The Food Dictator). And earlier than lemons have been closely built-in into the area, bitter grape juice (mainly vinegar) was used so as to add acidity to the dish.
The heavy dose of garlic on this recipe isn’t a surprise as a result of, in historical Greece, garlic was utilized to offer power and vitality to handbook laborers and Olympic athletes, per a 2001 study within the Journal of Vitamin. Moreover, Hippocrates, a famed Greek doctor, reportedly used garlic to deal with many bodily illnesses.
Kopiaste says that, historically, skordalia was created utilizing an old school mortar and pestle, however right now due to fashionable expertise, it’s a lot simpler to make use of a meals processor or blender.
