Gemista appears as a signature dish in 1 Greece cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Gemista · Thessaloniki
Tomatoes, peppers and aubergines hollowed and stuffed with rice flavoured with herbs, pine nuts, raisins and tomato pulp, baked until the vegetables collapse and the rice absorbs the juice. The Thessaloniki summer table.
Gemista (the stuffed ones) belong to the Ottoman-rooted family of dolmades that runs across the Eastern Mediterranean. The Thessaloniki version leans heavily on Macedonian summer produce and is traditionally lathera, cooked in olive oil with no meat, eaten through the Lenten fasts and the August heat.
Where to eat in Thessaloniki:
- Olympos Naoussa
- Nea Folia
- Salonika Restaurant
- Palia Athina