Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, stifado. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Stifado is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Stifado is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stifado using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Stifado:
- Prepare Marinade
- Prepare 3 springs rosemary
- Get 2 tsp dried oregano
- Prepare 125 ml red wine
- Make ready 2 tbsp wine vinegar
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- Make ready 3 cloves
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
- Get Stew
- Get 900 g diced beef
- Make ready 10 shallots, whole
- Make ready 1 tin tomatoes
- Make ready 2 tbsp tomato purée
- Prepare 300 ml beef stock
- Prepare 3 bay leaves
- Prepare 4 carrots, 1cm slices
- Take 250 g mushrooms, quartered
- Make ready Dumplins
- Get 70 g butter
- Make ready 225 g self raising flour
- Prepare 1 egg
- Prepare 110 ml milk
- Prepare 4 tbsp chopped chives or parsley
Do not add all the meat in the sauce pan, rather sauté in batches, so that the temperature of the oil remains high and the meat is sealed. Stifado is rooted from the Middle Ages of Italy, where it was originally named stufato which means stew, then brought to Greece by Venetian people. There, it has reached its more or less final form, after receiving various influences from the Turkish and farther Middle-Eastern cuisines. The word "stifado" (στιφάδο in Greek) come from the ancient greek word "τύφος" which means steam.
Instructions to make Stifado:
- Mix the marinade ingredients together then add the beef. Leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours
- Fry the whole shallots until they start to colour. Set aside.
- Brown the beef and set aside. You will have to do it in batches to not overcrowd the pan
- Put all the rest of the stew ingredients, including the marinade but not the shallots into the pan and bring to the boil. Add the beef, out the lid on and cook for 1hr at 180oC
- After an hour, stir the stew and add the shallots. Cook for another 30min.
- During this 30min, make the dumplings. Rub the butter and flour together to form breadcrumbs. Beat the egg and add the herbs and milk to it. Add to the milk to form a sticky dough
- When the stew has had its 30min, spoon blobs of dumpling mixture on to, ~2cm apart. You will get around 8-10.
- Put the stew back in the oven with the lid off for 30min
While if you use google translate it will return the word "stew". Even if the meaning is partly correct, stifado is more than just a stew in red sauce. When we in Greece talk about Stifado we mean a stew that is served together with lots of small whole onions the so called. 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.
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