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Beef With Shallots, Tomato, & Spices How To Make Stifado. For a Greek beef stifado (stew), you need to choose large cuts of good quality stewing beef or even better veal, which, when cooked for a long time, become fork tender. When cooking a Greek beef stifado, the meat is first browned and sealed to keep it nice and juicy, then added to a tomato-based sauce along with caramelised pearl onions and. Return the onions to the saucepan, add the marinade, tomatoes and tomato purée and enough water to just cover the stew.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook greek beef stifado (wine free version) 🇬🇷 using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Beef Stifado (Wine Free Version) 🇬🇷:
- Take Marinade
- Take 3 sprigs rosemary, de stalked and chopped
- Get 2 tsp dried oregano
- Make ready 125 mls cold beef stock (or red wine)
- Get 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- Make ready 3 cloves
- Prepare 2 cinnamon sticks
- Take Beef stew
- Prepare 900 g diced casserole beef
- Make ready Olive oil
- Take 400 g peeled shallots, left whole
- Take 400 g tinned plum tomatoes
- Get 2 tbsp tomato purée
- Make ready 100 mls beef stock
- Prepare 3 bay leaves
Recipes Made Easy's Beef Stifado is based on the classic Greek beef stew. Slow cooked until meltingly tender this Mediterranean dish is full of flavour. It is a dish that I have enjoyed many a time while holidaying on the Greek islands. It's very easy to make at home although does need a nice long slow cook, so some advance planning is needed.
Steps to make Greek Beef Stifado (Wine Free Version) 🇬🇷:
- Mix together the marinade ingredients. Add the beef and stir well to coat the meat, then leave to marinate for 2 hours (or overnight if possible).
- Preheat the oven to 180 C. Add a couple of tablespoons to a flameproof casserole dish and fry the whole shallots over a high heat until they start to colour on the outside. Remove the shallots and set them aside.
- Now brown off the meat in batches, draining off and reserving the marinade. Place the browned beef in a bowl after you’ve finished each batch so you don’t overcrowd your pan.
- When the beef is done and is waiting in the bowl, add the tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, reserved marinade, 100 mls stock to the casserole dish and bring it up to a gentle boil. Give it a stir and add your bag leaves. Add your beef back in, put your lid on and put the casserole in the oven for 1 hour.
- After one hour, gently stir the casserole and add in your shallots. Place the casserole back in the oven for a further hour.
- We served with minted boiled potatoes.
It is a dish that I have enjoyed many a time while holidaying on the Greek islands. It's very easy to make at home although does need a nice long slow cook, so some advance planning is needed. Beef Stifado is one of the most famous Greek Cypriot recipes. There is nothing like a steaming bowl of Beef stifado to warm the soul. A true taste of Cyprus in a bowl.
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