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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ultimate greek beef stifado using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate Greek beef stifado:
- Make ready MARINADE:
- Prepare 2-3 sprigs rosemary
- Make ready 2-3 dry bay leaves
- Prepare 1 tbls dried Greek oregano
- Prepare 150 ml red wine
- Take 2 tbls white wine vinegar
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves peeled and crushed with the back of a knife
- Take 4 whole cloves
- Take 1 cinnamon stick, broken into large pieces
- Prepare A few gratings of nutmeg
- Make ready FOR THE BEEF:
- Take 1 kg good quality beef diced
- Prepare 6 tbls extra virgin olive oil
- Take 1.2 kg shallots or small onions, peeled
- Make ready 400 g chopped tomatoes
- Prepare 2 tbls tomato purée
- Take 1 beef stock cube
Throw in the beef and cook them a bit until it is a bit brownish from all sides. Pour in the Tomato juice from the can and the vegetable cube. Add spice, salt and pepper as well as water. 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:
- 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.
Add spice, salt and pepper as well as water. Beef Stifado has the unmistakable aromas of cinnamon and black pepper with a little sharpness from the vinegar. 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. Remove the meat from the bowl, reserving the marinade for later.
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