Ultimate Greek beef stifado
Ultimate Greek beef stifado

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Ultimate Greek beef stifado This hearty slow cooked Greek beef stew with caramelised shallots and a rich tomato sauce is simply mouth-watering and it totally delivers on flavour. I buy a roasting joint and cut it into chunks myself as I find stewing steak can be tough. Throw in the beef and cook them a bit until it is a bit brownish from all sides.

Ultimate Greek beef stifado is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Ultimate Greek beef stifado is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 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:
  1. Make ready MARINADE:
  2. Take rosemary
  3. Make ready dry bay leaves
  4. Take dried Greek oregano
  5. Take red wine
  6. Take white wine vinegar
  7. Take garlic cloves peeled and crushed with the back of a knife
  8. Prepare whole cloves
  9. Get cinnamon stick, broken into large pieces
  10. Prepare gratings of nutmeg
  11. Take FOR THE BEEF:
  12. Get good quality beef diced
  13. Get extra virgin olive oil
  14. Make ready shallots or small onions, peeled
  15. Make ready chopped tomatoes
  16. Take tomato purée
  17. Prepare beef stock cube

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 Stifado - Beef Stew With Shallots This traditional beef stew is originally made with rabbit. Remove the meat from the bowl, reserving the marinade for later. Beef Stifado has the unmistakable aromas of cinnamon and black pepper with a little sharpness from the vinegar.

Instructions to make Ultimate Greek beef stifado:
  1. Place all the marinade ingredients together and combine. Add the beef, mix well, cover and refrigerate overnight.
  2. When you’re ready to cook, set the oven to 180C fan assisted.
  3. Drain the beef as well as possible, keeping the marinade juices. Strain and set aside.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Cover the casserole with a lid and place in the oven for 1 hour.
  8. 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.

The tender, melt in the mouth baby onions left whole and sweet. The beef, soft, succulent, fall-apart-meat and don't forget the brilliant Greek extra virgin olive oil that envelopes the whole dish. 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.

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