How to pronounce Diples

Diples is written δίπλες where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈðiples/. In plain English letters that is DHEE-ples, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Diples?

Diples is a dessert of Greece. Where it comes from: Peloponnese. People usually eat it on festive days. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and nuts & seeds. It tastes sweet.

Where Diples comes from

Diples is one of 37 signature dishes of Greece on this map. See all dishes from Peloponnese.

• Syglino σύγλινο · Main dish · Laconia and Mani (Peloponnese)

  Syglino, also called pasto, is preserved pork made mainly in Laconia, the southern Peloponnese region that takes in much of the Mani, as well as in the Cyclades and in Crete.

• Lalagia λαλάγγια · Snack · Mani (Peloponnese)

  Lalagia, also called Mani fritters, are a traditional recipe of the Messinia and Laconia regions of the southern Peloponnese, and above all of the Mani peninsula that the two share.

• Moussaka μουσακάς · Main dish · Greece

  Layered aubergine dishes were cooked across the Ottoman world and the Arab world, and the name comes from Arabic.

• Souvlaki σουβλάκι · Street food · Greece

  Souvlaki means "little skewer": cubes of pork, chicken or lamb marinated in olive oil, lemon and oregano and grilled over charcoal.

• Spanakopita σπανακόπιτα · Bread & pastry · Greece

  Spanakopita is a pie of spinach, feta, herbs such as dill and spring onions, and eggs, wrapped in layers of filo pastry brushed with olive oil and baked until golden.

• Dakos ντάκος · Snack · Crete

  Dakos, also known as koukouvagia, is a Cretan dish built on paximadi, a hard rusk that is usually made from barley, shaped round, cut in half and baked twice.

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