Meanings
- uncountableA type of roux particular to Cretan cuisine, prepared by cooking sheep's milk cream over a low flame with wheat flour or starch, generally served hot and eaten by dipping bread in it, occasionally over French fries.
Alongside we have charred wild greens slathered with Cretan clarified staka butter.
2025 August 9, Jay Rayner, “Your Greek island holiday, in sunny South Ken – Jay Rayner reviews Myrtos”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
In the mountain village of Pefki, Piperia […] serves excellent Cretan food. A nerati (a flat pie stuffed with a ricotta-like cheese and drizzled with honey), an omelet with staka (which resembles clotted cream), hortopitakia (wild-greens pies) and a round of wine and raki cost around 20 euros.
2008 July 27, Joanna Kakissis, “Days of Wild Oregano and Goatherds”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2016Mains, which range from fish of the day to gamopilafo (slow-cooked lamb served with goat’s curd staka on a bed of oven-baked pilaf rice) are served in good-sized portions for a fine-dining restaurant, […]
2025 May 13, Heidi Fuller-love, “InterContinental Crete Hotel Review, Greece”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC
Origin
Transliteration of Greek στάκα (stáka).
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