Beef Stifado
Recipe
- Title:
- Beef Stifado
- Categories:
- Meats
- Yield:
- 8 servings
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 lb Lean stewing beef
- 1/4 c Red wine vinegar
- 3 tb Butter
- 1 ts Mixed pickling spices
- 1 cn (1 lb) small onions
- 4
- Whole cloves
- 1 tb Brown sugar
- 3
- Buds garlic, minced
- 1/2 c Dry white wine
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 c Water
- 1 pk (12 oz) frozen tiny peas
- 3 tb Tomato paste
Directions
- SERVE WITH PILAFF, SEASAME COATED BREAD, SALAD W/FETA Cut meat in 1-inch chunks.
- Melt butter in large frying pan.
- Brown meat.
- Transfer to crockery pot.
- Stir drained onions and brown sugar into frying pan.
- Cook over medium high heat, shaking pan, until glazed.
- Transfer to crockery pot.
- Add wine, water, tomato paste and vinegar to frying pan.
- Stir to loosen drippings.
- Pour over meat and onions.
- Place pickling spices and cloves in a tea ball or cheesecloth bag.
- Add to pot.
- Season with garlic, salt and pepper.
- Cover.
- Cook on LOW 8 hours.
- Thaw peas.
- Add the last half hour of coking.
- Cook down juices until slightly reduced.
- Serve in ramekins.
- Makes 8 servings.
- NOTE: Pickling spices and red wine vinegar punctuate this Greek stew.
- Round out the Aegean munu with pilaff, & salad w/feta cheese.
- SOURCE: Extra Special Crockery Pot
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