Ultimate Greek beef stifado
Ultimate Greek beef stifado

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Browse new releases, best sellers or classics & Find your next favourite book 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. 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.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have ultimate greek beef stifado using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Ultimate Greek beef stifado:
  1. Get MARINADE:
  2. Take 2-3 sprigs rosemary
  3. Get 2-3 dry bay leaves
  4. Prepare 1 tbls dried Greek oregano
  5. Prepare 150 ml red wine
  6. Take 2 tbls white wine vinegar
  7. Take 3 garlic cloves peeled and crushed with the back of a knife
  8. Take 4 whole cloves
  9. Make ready 1 cinnamon stick, broken into large pieces
  10. Make ready A few gratings of nutmeg
  11. Get FOR THE BEEF:
  12. Make ready 1 kg good quality beef diced
  13. Make ready 6 tbls extra virgin olive oil
  14. Prepare 1.2 kg shallots or small onions, peeled
  15. Take 400 g chopped tomatoes
  16. Make ready 2 tbls tomato purée
  17. Get 1 beef stock cube

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. The tender, melt in the mouth baby onions left whole and sweet.

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.

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. Traditionally Greek beef stifado is served with orzo pasta, rice, hilopittes (egg pasta) or chip potatoes.

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