Delicious greek pastitsio recipe that everyone loves. The favourite food for generations. Is there a better combination of spaghetti with minced meat and divine béchamel? One more delicious than the other, and when they meet together they make the perfect dish.
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Greek Beef Stifado stew
The following recipe is one of the traditional greek recipes that need to not be forgotten. The characteristic ingredient for this one is the shallot onion and its name…”Stifado”
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Beef stew with red sauce and pasta
Some of the recipes are but classic. There are so many modifications around those recipes that are sometimes difficult to keep up.
I cant even remember the amount of different combinations my mother made with beef stew and red sauce. To be honest it doesn’t really matter as there were always nice
You can have beef with peas or okra or just with chips. I think if you take a look in a Greek recipe book you will find so many modifications that after a while you will be really bored of cooking
On the other hand if you do it right then you always have a nice dish that you can enjoy for yourself or your friends.
Well either way that’s another modification that I did recently and one I did believe it really worth the effort as it is really easy to make as most of the nice foods. Really important thing is the pasta on this one, to be honest I don’t remember how this pasta is called but well you can find it I guess. I just enjoy the small pasta combined with meat.
PASTA AND BEEF WITH RED SAUCE
Ingredients
- Around 500gr beef
- Pasta…well that one
- 1 can of tomato juice
- 1 chopped Onion
- 1 clove of garlic chopped
- A small spoon of thyme
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- Shredded feta cheese
Method
Step 1
Start making your pasta in a different pot In the same time in another pot add the olive oil and the onions with the garlic in high heat As it becomes a bit brownish then add the beef and stir it
Step 2
When the beef is also brown add half a glass of red wine and lower the heat. Add also the thyme and stir it so it goes all over the place. Add salt and pepper also. Let it for 5 minutes and smell the flavours of the wine and thyme
Step 3
Add the tomato juice and let it boil. Add some water if it is needed. When the beef is soft and tender then add the pasta and stir it so it can go everywhere..Serve with adding the shredded feta cheese.
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Beef with cabbage and …a little bit of Boddington’s
Making a recipe with vegetables can always be difficult as most of us don’t know what the best way to mix them with food is and which vegetable fits better somewhere.
Every time when I go to Germany for example I always see different recipes with cabbage and meat that fit really nicely and were something I had in mind to do. As always in this kind of situations contancting my mother is a safe bet. Since me and my brother bought her a laptop for a present she always speaks to us through skype.
That is good as there is more communication but you have to understand that she isn’t one of the fastest persons in writing. So, writing the following recipe…well..it took her sometime. ..
But it was worth it. Initially the recipe was with chopped pork but since I didn’t had and to be honest was really bored to go and get…I did it with what I had…casserole beef 🙂 it worked out equally nice.
CABBAGE WITH BEEF AND BODDINGTON’S BEER
[ingredients]
[method]
Use a different pot, add a little bit of water and olive oil and add the cabbage. You don’t have to add too much water as the cabbage will “let water” out by itself while it is boiling. When the leaves are softened remove the water from the pot with the cabbage and add your boiled cabbage to the pot with the meat. Stir it a little bit and its ready!
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Beef Rib Eye Stake with Portobello mushrooms
I was dreaming for the following recipe since the previous day. Sunday was a stake day, I had the stakes ready and just dreaming the way that I should cook them.
2 days ago I bought some huge Portobello mushrooms so I was sure that they would play their own part in this story. I woke up at around 1230-1300. The headache from last night’s hang over was unbelievable…but I was determined. Suddenly I heard noise on the kitchen….”Matinaaaaa” I shouted. Matina, the girl that is occupying our living room for the past weeks came in.
-What are you doing?
-Just cleaning the kitchen…
-(sigh of relief..) ok, good girl, get the stakes out of the freezer, leave them on the kitchen and get out of there….ill be up in 10 minutes to cook them
After half an hour and one Greek coffee I was still on the couch of the living room…
Eventually I went in to the kitchen and had a rough idea about how to cook those beautiful rib eye stakes we had.
RIB EYE STAKE WITH MUSHROOMS
Ingredients
- 2 beef rib eye stakes
- 1/2 red onion chopped
- 1 slice of garlic chopped
- 2 big Portobello mushrooms
- 1 spoon of English mustard.
- Butter
- Salt and pepper
- Paprika
- Nutmeg
- 1 can of Carlsberg Special Brew
Method
Step 1
First you drink a lot of water in order to remove the alcohol from your body. Then in a deep frying pan you put some olive oil and you heat it up.
Step 2
You put the 2 rib eye stakes for 3-4 minutes each side. The idea is to get them a little bit brownish on both sides but not too much so they are cooked already. After they get a little bit brown on both sides you remove them and put them on the side.
Step 3
Then you add in the frying pan the onions and the garlic. Add one spoon of butter and one spoon of English Mustard. You stir all the ingredients from left to right so everyone can watch you and believe you are a great cook. As the sauce is being formed after 5 minutes we add again the Rib eye stakes. Add, salt, pepper, paprika and nutmeg. (to be honest lately I love paprika so much that I overdid it but… the amount depends on your taste)
Step 4
When you feel that your stakes are almost done, pour a little bit of beer and lower the heat to minum. I had Carlsberg at that time but my feeling any red beer will do with a stake.
Step 5
As you are doing this, cook the mushrooms on another frying pan changing the sides every two minutes. A little bit before you remove them, add the juice from half a lemon. If you want to make it extra greek , fry 1 slice of feta cheese and add it on top of the mushroom with a little bit of oregano.
Enjoy 😀
You like it? Check also my traditional family corned beef recipe here