Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, stifado. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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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 "In Greece, stifado is served with hilopittes (egg pasta) or orzo (rice-shaped grains of pasta). Once you've tried this a few times and become addicted to its intense flavours, you can try swapping the beef for veal or rabbit.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook stifado using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Stifado:
- Take Marinade
- Take 3 springs rosemary
- Make ready 2 tsp dried oregano
- Make ready 125 ml red wine
- Make ready 2 tbsp wine vinegar
- Get 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- Take 3 cloves
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
- Get Stew
- Make ready 900 g diced beef
- Get 10 shallots, whole
- Make ready 1 tin tomatoes
- Prepare 2 tbsp tomato purée
- Make ready 300 ml beef stock
- Make ready 3 bay leaves
- Get 4 carrots, 1cm slices
- Make ready 250 g mushrooms, quartered
- Take Dumplins
- Make ready 70 g butter
- Get 225 g self raising flour
- Make ready 1 egg
- Get 110 ml milk
- Take 4 tbsp chopped chives or parsley
There, it has reached its more or less final form, after receiving various influences from the Turkish and farther Middle-Eastern cuisines. 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 Stifado - Beef Stew With Shallots This traditional beef stew is originally made with rabbit.
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
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. The word "stifado" (στιφάδο in Greek) come from the ancient greek word "τύφος" which means steam. While if you use google translate it will return the word "stew". Even if the meaning is partly correct, stifado is more than just a stew in red sauce.
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