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About Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking
Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking (@dianekochilas) is a Cooking School creator on Instagram, also filed under Food & Cooking. The account has 139,646 followers and 3,582 published posts. Recent posts average 759 likes and 30 comments, an engagement rate of 0.56%.
An audience of 139.6K puts Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking in the mid-tier, between 100,000 and 1 million followers. Set against 3,916 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 36 followers per account Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking follows. Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking under Cooking School, with Food & Cooking as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking runs to 24 words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking dates from October 2026.
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3,582 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking, 6 are videos, 2 are carousels and 2 are single images. That mix leans toward videos. With 3,582 posts published, Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 39 followers for each post published. Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking also keeps 10 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 171 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include cook, greekfood, kitchen, ikaria and it’s. The captions tag #greekfood, #greekcooking, #mediterraneandiet, #ikaria and #fallrecipes.
It all comes together in about 40 minutes with everyday ingredients you can find anywhere: cauliflower, garlic, capers, lemon and good olive oil, of course. Garlicky breadcrumbs and feta bring it full circle.
This combo has a true Greek soul, thanks to the oregano-lemon-garlic trio and the feta. The texture will win you over and send you back for seconds: comforting pasta in the same forkful as crunchy cauliflower and all the tangy goodness of the caper-feta-lemon mix.
📩 Send this to whoever's cooking dinner with you this week.
📌 Save it for the next busy weeknight.
Did you know Greeks love pasta this much? Tell me below 👇
Full recipe linked in my bio. Follow along for how Greeks really cook, season by season.
#GreekFood #PastaRecipes #FallRecipes #GreekCooking #MediterraneanDiet
But slow-cooked Greek food was always made ahead. My chickpeas, braised for hours with vegetables and a touch of honey, taste even better the next day, so they were made for the freezer.
This is my recipe, now in a box. Let’s say it’s a kind of Freezer Diary: the real story of taking a recipe from my kitchen to your freezer aisle.
Want it in your freezer? Comment your city and the store where you shop, and I'll make sure the right people see it. 👇
Retailers and distributors:
#GreekFood #ChickpeaRecipes #FreezerMeals #GreekCooking #MediterraneanDiet
It’s always sad to say goodbye to summer, but fall has its glories, too. A day or two after it rains, the landscape changes completely. Greener, and largely edible! Wild greens come back to fields and slopes. The heat finally breaks, and the pots I ignored all summer go back on the stove: chickpeas, lentils, slow braises. Cauliflower piles up at the market. And pumpkin? We put it in savory pies, not lattes. No offense!
These are the 5 dishes that tell me fall has arrived in my kitchen:
🌿 Greens & rice, the first thing I cook when all those mineral- and antioxidant greens return
🥣 Greek chickpea soup, simple and slow, borrowed from Diporto in Athens, and my Athens book
🍠 Lentil & Kale potato soup, my weeknight pot
🥦 Braised cauliflower, unusual and so good
🎃 Squash filled with everything that goes into spanakopita
All these recipes are warm, comforting and hearty, but not heavy. That's how Greeks eat when the weather turns.
📩 Send this to the person you cook with this fall.
📌 Save it for the next time you're wondering what to make.
What tells YOU fall has arrived where you live? I want to know. 👇
Recipes are linked in my bio. Follow along for how Greeks actually cook, season by season.
#GreekFood #FallRecipes #GreekCooking #MediterraneanDiet #ChickpeaSoup
After a great summer teaching my cooking classes on Ikaria, and before I head off again on my fall travels, I just wanted to cook up some seasonal recipes that welcome Fall to the table..
✔️This Roasted Butternut Squash with Whipped Feta, Walnuts & Pomegranate is first on the list.😉
Sweet, caramelized butternut squash over a creamy blend of Greek feta and yogurt, finished with toasted walnuts, pomegranate, herbs and plenty of good Greek olive oil. How can you not love that?🧡
There’s a little optional Greek secret in there, too: petimezi, our traditional grape molasses. I love the depth it gives the roasted squash.🇬🇷
It’s creamy, salty, sweet, crunchy and fresh all at once—and much easier than it looks.
💌 My newsletter subscribers got to see this recipe first (yesterday). Subscribe if you haven’t yet. (link in bio)
👉 Get the full recipe at. Find the link in bio.
And tell me: What’s the first ingredient you start craving when fall arrives? Squash? Mushrooms? Lentils? Apples? Something else?
Save this one for your fall cooking and send it to someone who loves feta as much as I do.
#ButternutSquash #WhippedFeta #GreekFood #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanRecipes
It’s called trahana—and introducing my guests to ingredients like this is one of my favorite parts of teaching on Ikaria.😍
ℹ️Trahana has been part of the Greek kitchen for generations. It’s one of the world’s earliest slow fast foods – humble, comforting, nourishing and incredibly quick to cook. And, like so much traditional Ikarian food, it reminds us that eating well doesn’t have to be complicated.
This soup wasn't planned. It was an ad hoc recipe inspired by a bowl of zucchini water left over from squeezing out the liquid from grated zucchini we used for making fritters. I sautéed onions and garlic in extra-virgin olive oil, added the trahana, and then used the liquid we'd saved earlier that day.
✔️Nothing good goes to waste.
That kind of instinctive, resourceful cooking is something I want my guests to understand—not simply how to follow a recipe, but how to think like a real (Greek!) cook.😉🇬🇷
It's also one small window into the traditional food culture of Ikaria, one of the world's original Blue Zones, where simple ingredients, seasonality, resourcefulness and cooking from scratch have been part of everyday life for generations.
And a few minutes later, lunch was ready: warm bowls of trahana finished with Greek yogurt, extra-virgin olive oil, herbs and a little hot pepper. 🌿
This is what I want you to experience when you come cook with me on Ikaria.
🇬🇷 My June 2027 Ikaria Cooking & Longevity Retreats are now open.
👉 Details and booking at the link in my bio.
❓️Have you ever eaten trahana—or is this the first time you've heard of it? Tell me below.
👉️Save this so you remember trahana—and share it with the person you'd bring to Ikaria.
#Ikaria #Trahana #GreekFood #GreekCooking #GreekCuisine
Ikaria is where I really learned to cook. Not from cookbooks or in a school, but from the women in the villages, from family kitchens, from gardens, and from a way of life that taught me about fresh, seasonal, simple food shared with others.
Now, so many years later, I feel blessed that one of my greatest pleasures is also something I share with others. (My guests seem pretty happy, too!)
Together we cook traditional Ikarian and Greek dishes, sometimes with a twist, discover local ingredients – from the island but also from around Greece – visit my fellow villagers who keep bees, breed and graze goats, make wine and more. There's plenty of time for swimming, exploring, conversation, and simply enjoying life.
But what stays with me most are the friendships we make.
A heartfelt thank-you to all my amazing guests who have joined me over the years, and especially to those who shared their experiences in this video. You bring so much to my kitchen and to this island. ❤️
I'd love to welcome you to Ikaria in 2027.
Come cook with me where I learned to cook.
👉 Explore my Ikaria cooking classes and upcoming dates through the link in my bio.
Tell me: If you spent a week cooking with me on Ikaria, what would you most want to experience — the cooking, the island's food traditions, or simply slowing down and enjoying life?
#Ikaria #DianeKochilas #TheIkariaWay #GreekCooking #GreekFood
My Longevity Greens Pie is inspired by Ikaria and by the way I’ve cooked for my own family for years: lots of vegetables and greens, good olive oil, herbs, and big Greek flavor.
Inside the crisp phyllo are Swiss chard, leeks, onions, butternut squash, carrots and fennel, with olive oil, parsley and oregano.
It’s part of Diane Kochilas Greek Kitchen, my frozen Greek food line. I created it to make the kind of vegetable-forward Mediterranean food I cook for my family easy for you to enjoy at home — straight from the freezer.
And now comes the important part:
We’re actively looking for retail and distribution partners to help us bring the line to stores across the U.S.
If you’re a grocery buyer, retailer, distributor or specialty food professional, I’d love to connect. DM me or share this Reel with someone in the industry who should know about Diane Kochilas Greek Kitchen.
And if you’re a consumer: Where would you like to buy my Longevity Greens Pie? Tag your favorite supermarket or specialty food store below. 👇
#DianeKochilasGreekKitchen #LongevityGreensPie #GreekFood #MediterraneanFood #GreekCuisine
Here are 5 things Ikarians do every day that have nothing to do with dieting:
1️⃣ Cook and eat with the seasons
2️⃣ Cultivate friendships (and linger at the table)
3️⃣ Move naturally: dancing, walking, gardening
4️⃣ Nap. Without Guilt.
5️⃣ Never let the clock rule you
JOIN us at the table!
It's the rhythm of life behind everything I cook, and it's what we share at my family's table on Ikaria. Small groups, big lunches, and no one watching the time. Link in bio. ✨
Which one are you stealing first? Comment the number 👇
#Ikaria #BlueZones #SlowLiving #MediterraneanLifestyle #TheIkariaWay
Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking's engagement
Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.56%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 179 followers. An average post collects 759 likes and 30 comments, close to 25 likes for each comment.
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Who is Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking?
Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking (@dianekochilas) is a Cooking School creator on Instagram, also filed under Food & Cooking. Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking runs to 24 words.
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Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking has 139,646 followers on Instagram (139.6K). Set against 3,916 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 36 followers per account Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking follows. With 3,582 posts published, Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.
What is Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking's engagement rate?
Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.56%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 179 followers. An average post collects 759 likes and 30 comments, close to 25 likes for each comment.
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Flinque files Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking under Cooking School, with Food & Cooking as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking, 6 are videos, 2 are carousels and 2 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking repeatedly use the words cook, greekfood, kitchen, ikaria and it’s. Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking's captions carry hashtags such as #greekfood, #greekcooking and #mediterraneandiet. Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking writes those captions mainly in English. Diane Kochilas | Greek Cooking keeps 10 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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