I make my Greek grandmother's 20-minute orzo recipe each time I really feel lazy and it's the right summer season dish

• My yiayia has been making kritharaki, a Greek tomato-orzo dish, for so long as I can keep in mind.
• The no-frills recipe requires only a few substances and steps, and is a crowd-pleaser each time.
• It is scrumptious by itself, as a facet, or in a salad, and lasts for days within the fridge.

My yiayia has been making kritharaki, a Greek tomato-orzo dish, for so long as I can keep in mind.

Certainly one of my earliest recollections is consuming a bowl of it whereas watching “Sesame Avenue.” It was one of many few meals I might return to for seconds. And at 33, I will nonetheless return for one more serving.

I am not the one one. Kritharaki is fashionable in Greece and Cyprus, the place I spent summers rising up visiting my grandparents, and may be made many alternative methods — together with, after all, with meat.

However the no-frills model is all I want after I’m craving a style of Cyprus, and even higher, it is prepared in 20 minutes.