Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, greek stew. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Try our no prep no mess Oven Ready meals with everything included - even the cooking tray! This Greek-style beef stew is filled with potatoes, carrots, onions, tomatoes, and spices. A little red wine and wine vinegar adds additional depth of flavor. 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.
Greek Stew is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Greek Stew is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook greek stew using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Stew:
- Make ready 1/2 lb Ground Lamb
- Make ready 1 Onion
- Take 3 cloves garlic
- Make ready 1 eggplant
- Get 2 yellow squash
- Get 3 tomatoes
- Take fresh oregano and basil
- Prepare 1/3 lb Feta cheese
All is turned into a saucepan with the potatoes and simmered until tender and the stew is flavorful. 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.
Instructions to make Greek Stew:
- Here are the ingredients before cooking. 1. Brown the lamb by itself. There will be a lot of fat rendered.
- Remove the lamb from the pan and put it on a paper towel lined bowl.
- Wipe out the pan to get rid of the fat but don't wash the pan. Add the onion and cook for three minutes over medium heat in a couple of teaspoons of olive oil.
- Add garlic and cooked until fragrant (about 1 min). Then add cubed eggplant and squash.
- After the squash and eggplant are browned slightly (about 5 min) add diced tomatoes and about 1/4 c water or stock. (Red wine would be good, too) And 1/2 of the fresh oregano and basil.
- Cover and cook for 5-10 minutes over medium low heat
- Add the ground lamb and cubed feta cheese and reduce sauce by cooking with the lid off for 5 minutes
- Finish the dish with the other half of fresh oregano and basil, salt and pepper, a few red pepper flakes, and a drizzle of your best olive oil. You can serve it over rice or pasta or have it with a couple of slices of crusty French bread to mop up the delicious broth. Enjoy!
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. But since beef is more acceptable to most people, is therefore used mostly instead of rabbit. Heat the olive oil in a large, heavy bottomed pot over medium-high heat.
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