How to pronounce Lalagia

Lalagia is written λαλάγγια where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /laˈlaɲɟa/. In plain English letters that is lah-LAHN-gyah, 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 Lalagia?

Lalagia is a snack of Greece. Where it comes from: Mani (Peloponnese). People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes savory.

Where Lalagia comes from

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

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• Souvlaki σουβλάκι · Street food · Greece

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• Spanakopita σπανακόπιτα · Bread & pastry · Greece

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• 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.

Food of Greece

Dishes like Lalagia in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Lalagia:

• Taralli · Snack · Apulia, Italy

  Taralli are small rings of dough made with flour, white wine and olive oil, boiled briefly and then baked until crunchy.

• Gougère · Snack · Burgundy (Yonne), France

  The gougère is a savoury puff of choux pastry mixed with cheese, a speciality of Burgundy and especially of the Yonne department, around Auxerre and the town of Tonnerre.

• Halve Hahn · Snack · Cologne (Rhineland), Germany

  Halve Hahn means "half a chicken" in the Rhineland dialect, but there is no chicken in it.

• Brabant sausage roll Brabants worstenbroodje · Snack · North Brabant, Netherlands

  The Brabants worstenbroodje is a savoury roll from the province of North Brabant: a sausage of minced beef, lightly spiced, wrapped in soft white bread dough and baked, about fifteen centimetres long.