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Stifado - Traditional Beef Stew With Shallots 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 Beef Stifado or Stifatho is a wonderful Greek dish. A rich beef stew is cooked with whole onions and potatoes.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have ultimate greek beef stifado using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate Greek beef stifado:
- Take MARINADE:
- Get 2-3 sprigs rosemary
- Take 2-3 dry bay leaves
- Prepare 1 tbls dried Greek oregano
- Make ready 150 ml red wine
- Make ready 2 tbls white wine vinegar
- Get 3 garlic cloves peeled and crushed with the back of a knife
- Get 4 whole cloves
- Get 1 cinnamon stick, broken into large pieces
- Prepare A few gratings of nutmeg
- Make ready FOR THE BEEF:
- Prepare 1 kg good quality beef diced
- Prepare 6 tbls extra virgin olive oil
- Take 1.2 kg shallots or small onions, peeled
- Take 400 g chopped tomatoes
- Get 2 tbls tomato purée
- Prepare 1 beef stock cube
Place the remaining olive oil in the frying pan and pour in the reserved marinade, the chopped tomatoes, the tomato purée and the beef stock. Bring to a boil and then pour onto the beef. 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.
Steps to make Ultimate Greek beef stifado:
- Place all the marinade ingredients together and combine. Add the beef, mix well, cover and refrigerate overnight.
- When you’re ready to cook, set the oven to 180C fan assisted.
- Drain the beef as well as possible, keeping the marinade juices. Strain and set aside.
- Heat 2 tbls of the olive oil in a large frying pan and cook the shallots for about 8-10 minutes until golden brown. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
- In the same frying pan, add 2 tbls olive oil and sear the beef on all sides and then place in a casserole dish. You will need to brown the meat in batches. Don’t turn it too much whilst searing as this will reduce the temperature of the pan.
- Place the remaining olive oil in the frying pan and pour in the reserved marinade, the chopped tomatoes, the tomato purée and the beef stock. Bring to a boil and then pour onto the beef.
- Cover the casserole with a lid and place in the oven for 1 hour.
- After 1 hour add the shallots to the casserole, mix, cover with a lid and cook for a further hour or until the meat is tender.
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. And of course with some crusted bread aside to dig into all this delicious tomato sauce. Greek Beef Stew - Stifado is a Greek stew dish. It's the Greek version of comfort food — warm, filling and satisfying.
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