Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, stifado. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Stifado is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Stifado is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have stifado using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Stifado:
- Get Marinade
- Get 3 springs rosemary
- Take 2 tsp dried oregano
- Take 125 ml red wine
- Make ready 2 tbsp wine vinegar
- Take 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- Get 3 cloves
- Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
- Take Stew
- Prepare 900 g diced beef
- Get 10 shallots, whole
- Make ready 1 tin tomatoes
- Get 2 tbsp tomato purée
- Make ready 300 ml beef stock
- Take 3 bay leaves
- Make ready 4 carrots, 1cm slices
- Get 250 g mushrooms, quartered
- Prepare Dumplins
- Make ready 70 g butter
- Get 225 g self raising flour
- Prepare 1 egg
- Prepare 110 ml milk
- Prepare 4 tbsp chopped chives or parsley
The word "stifado" (στιφάδο in Greek) come from the ancient greek word "τύφος" which means steam. 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.
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
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. To prepare this delicious Greek beef stifado recipe, heat the oil in a saucepan, add the meat (in batches) and sauté, until browned on all sides. 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. Recipes Made Easy's Beef Stifado is based on the classic Greek beef stew.
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