The rich land provides excellent quality of fruit and vegetables, which local people prepare using old recipes. The two main products in the area are peppers and beans. The peppers of the shore of Prespa, are rich flesh and taste and the residents of the area really understand a little secret about peppers: red, green, yellow, blazing and aromatic; they need to be roasted or fried to truly reveal their sumptuous flavour. All over the Greek Prespa area people grow beans on fields and in the back garden. Smalls beans âplakeâ and big beans âgigantesâ are the two kinds. The bean soup âfasoladaâ as well as the baked gigant beans âgigantes sto founoâ are skillfully prepared here.
Very often the table is enriched with various types of fish from the lakes, cooked in different styles, depending on the type and season. The taste of the Prespa carp and the small, tasty fish called "tsironi" is a unique experience, especially because these fish are endemic forms and can only be found here.
