Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, stifado. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Stifado is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Stifado is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Stifatho (στιφάδο)—sometimes spelled stifado —is a Greek stew dish. It's the Greek version of comfort food —warm, filling, and satisfying. How Stifatho Is Made Traditionally Greek beef stifado is served with orzo pasta, rice, hilopittes (egg pasta) or chip potatoes. For the cold winter days, serve with creamy mashed potatoes for a warming and hearty meal that will take the chill out of any evening.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have stifado using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Stifado:
- Take Marinade
- Make ready 3 springs rosemary
- Prepare 2 tsp dried oregano
- Make ready 125 ml red wine
- Make ready 2 tbsp wine vinegar
- Get 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- Get 3 cloves
- Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
- Get Stew
- Get 900 g diced beef
- Prepare 10 shallots, whole
- Take 1 tin tomatoes
- Take 2 tbsp tomato purée
- Get 300 ml beef stock
- Make ready 3 bay leaves
- Prepare 4 carrots, 1cm slices
- Make ready 250 g mushrooms, quartered
- Make ready Dumplins
- Get 70 g butter
- Prepare 225 g self raising flour
- Get 1 egg
- Make ready 110 ml milk
- Prepare 4 tbsp chopped chives or parsley
Stifado is almost always made with lots of tiny onions; sometimes, it's also made with lots of tomato. The version below is rich and aromatic with spices. If you prefer a sharper flavour, add half. Stifado or Sti-fa-th-o as it's pronounced in Greek is a truly flavorful meat stew.
Steps to make Stifado:
- Mix the marinade ingredients together then add the beef. Leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours
- Fry the whole shallots until they start to colour. Set aside.
- Brown the beef and set aside. You will have to do it in batches to not overcrowd the pan
- Put all the rest of the stew ingredients, including the marinade but not the shallots into the pan and bring to the boil. Add the beef, out the lid on and cook for 1hr at 180oC
- After an hour, stir the stew and add the shallots. Cook for another 30min.
- During this 30min, make the dumplings. Rub the butter and flour together to form breadcrumbs. Beat the egg and add the herbs and milk to it. Add to the milk to form a sticky dough
- When the stew has had its 30min, spoon blobs of dumpling mixture on to, ~2cm apart. You will get around 8-10.
- Put the stew back in the oven with the lid off for 30min
If you prefer a sharper flavour, add half. Stifado or Sti-fa-th-o as it's pronounced in Greek is a truly flavorful meat stew. Cooked in red wine along with shallots and plenty of sweet spices. Stifado - Beef Stew With Shallots This traditional beef stew is originally made with rabbit. Mouth-wateringly tender meat full of Mediterranean flavours, this classic, slow-cooked Greek beef stifado recipe will be a welcome addition to your summer meals.
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