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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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To begin 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 can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Beef Stifado (Wine Free Version) 🇬🇷:
- Make ready Marinade
- Make ready 3 sprigs rosemary, de stalked and chopped
- Make ready 2 tsp dried oregano
- Get 125 mls cold beef stock (or red wine)
- Make ready 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
- Prepare 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- Get 3 cloves
- Take 2 cinnamon sticks
- Prepare Beef stew
- Make ready 900 g diced casserole beef
- Get Olive oil
- Take 400 g peeled shallots, left whole
- Make ready 400 g tinned plum tomatoes
- Prepare 2 tbsp tomato purée
- Get 100 mls beef stock
- Get 3 bay leaves
Stifatho (στιφάδο)—sometimes spelled stifado—is a Greek stew dish. It's the Greek version of comfort food—warm, filling, and satisfying. Greek cuisine has many comfort foods, but stifado or in a more original spelling stifatho, is probably the most widely cooked dish which has its own, local versions throughout the whole country. It is so rich in flavors and textures that one time is surely not enough to get a complete idea about the real potential of this delicious stew.
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.
Its biggest advantage lies in its ingredients, which are. 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. Stifado is a Greek beef stew and my all-time favorite Greek dish. I'm sure letting it stew all day in the slow cooker would have blended the flavors even better, but the stove-top version was very good.
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