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Revithada: the Sunday chickpeas that cook all night

Every Sifnos family has a clay pot for revithada. Eleni explains why the chickpeas go into the oven on Saturday night.

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28 Aug 2026

5 min read

Revithada is the dish Sifnos is known for: chickpeas, onion, bay leaf and olive oil, cooked slowly in a lidded clay pot called a skepastaria.

Why overnight

Traditionally the pots went into the village bakery's wood oven on Saturday night, after the last bread came out, and families collected them after church on Sunday.

Twelve hours in a falling heat turns the chickpeas creamy without breaking them. You cannot rush it, and nobody on the island tries.

Making it at the villa

Eleni lights the clay oven at Villa Kapari on Saturday evenings in the season. Leave a note by Friday and a pot will be on your table on Sunday.

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