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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. Beef Stifado or Stifatho is a wonderful Greek dish. A rich beef stew is cooked with whole onions and potatoes.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Make ready MARINADE:
2. Take 2-3 sprigs rosemary
3. Get 2-3 dry bay leaves
4. Take 1 tbls dried Greek oregano
5. Prepare 150 ml red wine
6. Make ready 2 tbls white wine vinegar
7. Take 3 garlic cloves peeled and crushed with the back of a knife
8. Make ready 4 whole cloves
9. Prepare 1 cinnamon stick, broken into large pieces
10. Make ready A few gratings of nutmeg
11. Prepare FOR THE BEEF:
12. Take 1 kg good quality beef diced
13. Take 6 tbls extra virgin olive oil
14. Prepare 1.2 kg shallots or small onions, peeled
15. Prepare 400 g chopped tomatoes
16. Get 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. 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.

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.

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. Stifado - Beef Stew With Shallots This traditional beef stew is originally made with rabbit. Traditionally Greek beef stifado is served with orzo pasta, rice, hilopittes (egg pasta) or chip potatoes. For the cold winter days, serve with creamy mashed potatoes for a warming and hearty meal that will take the chill out of any evening.

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