Best 10 Stifado Recipes

BEEF STIFADO IN THE SLOW COOKER

Steps:

• Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over high heat and cook beef, onion, and garlic until meat is browned on all sides and onions are soft, 6 to 8 minutes. Add tomatoes, nutmeg, cinnamon stick, bay leaves, rosemary, salt and a good pinch of black pepper. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until ingredients blend, about 3 minutes. Add wine and vinegar and stir to combine.
• Turn slow cooker to Low setting. Pour beef mixture into slow cooker and stir in ketchup.
• Cook on Low until beef is tender, 6 to 8 hours.
• Meanwhile, heat remaining olive oil in a skillet and cook shallots until soft, 3 to 4 minutes. Add cooked shallots to stew for the last 1 to 2 hours of cooking.
• Remove and discard cinnamon stick, bay leaves, and rosemary sprig before serving.

BEEF STIFADO

Steps:

• Heat half of the butter and half of the first tablespoon of olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Brown half of the beef cubes on all sides, and place into a large saucepan. Repeat with the remaining butter, olive oil, and beef. Stir the onions and garlic into the oil remaining in the skillet, and reduce heat to medium; cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Pour in the red wine, and bring to a simmer, then scrape the onions into the saucepan with the beef.
• Season the beef with salt, pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, and orange zest. Pour in the diced tomatoes and water. Cover, and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat; then reduce heat to medium-low, and continue simmering 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, heat the remaining tablespoon of olive oil in the skillet over medium heat. Stir in the pearl onions, and cook until they are well browned, stirring frequently, about 20 minutes. After the beef has simmered for an hour, add the pearl onions, recover, and continue simmering 20 minutes.
• Remove the lid, and simmer, uncovered until the stew has reduced and slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Remove the orange zest before serving.

CROCK POT STIFADO

Steps:

• Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat and brown beef-- in batches if necessary, adding more oil if needed.
• Transfer beef to crock pot with a slotted spoon.
• Reduce heat to medium and add onions to skillet, cooking until soft; add garlic, cinnamon and allspice and cook for 1 minute.
• Add vinegar, tomato sauce, sugar and bay leaf and stir well to combine.
• Pour mixture over meat.
• Cover and cook on Low for 8 to 10 hours or on High for 4 to 5 hours, until beef is tender.
• Add feta cheese, cover again, and cook on High for 10 minutes.
• Discard bay leaf and serve over hot buttered pasta or mashed potatoes.

CROCK POT BEEF STIFADO

Steps:

• Cover the onions with boiled water, stand for 5 minutes, drain, peel and set aside.
• Dust the beef with the flour.
• Heat half of the oil in a large frying pan and brown the beef, transfer to the crock pot.
• Heat the rest of the oil and on a high heat brown the small onions for approx ten minutes.
• Lower the heat to medium and add the chopped onion and the garlic, fry for another 5 minutes.
• Now add the rest of the ingredients, mix and warm through then transfer to the crock pot.
• Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours until tender.

GREEK CHICKEN STEW (STIFADO)

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the shallots, and cook uncovered for 3 minutes until just tender. Drain in a colander, then immediately immerse in ice water, or rinse with cold water for several minutes until cold to stop the cooking process. Once the shallots are cold, drain well, and set aside.
• Heat the olive oil and butter in a Dutch oven or large pot over medium heat until oil is hot and butter is melted and bubbling. Add the whole, blanched shallots and chicken pieces to the skillet and cook, turning chicken pieces over until no longer pink inside and shallots have softened and turned translucent, about 15 minutes. Stir in the chopped garlic and cook for another 3 minutes, until garlic starts to turn golden.
• Pour in red wine and tomato sauce, and add the parsley, salt and pepper, oregano, and bay leaves. Pour the chicken stock over the chicken pieces to cover, and stir to combine.
• Simmer the stew, covered, over medium-low heat for about 50 minutes, until the shallots are soft and the chicken is tender.

STIFADO (TRADITIONAL GREEK STEW)

Steps:

• Combine the tomatoes, vinegar, stock, 50 mls olive oil, garlic, cinnamon stick, orange zest, honey, bay leaf and cumin in a large casserole pot with a lid.
• Stir through the beef until coated and refrigerate overnight to marinate.
• Heat olive oil in a frying pan, add onions and sugar and cook until browned.
• Pre heat the oven to 160°C.
• Add onions to marinated beef and cover.
• Cook for 2 ½- 3 hours until tender.

GREEK FLANK STEAK STIFADO

Steps:

• Cut steak across the grain, slicing on the diagonal (partially freezing the meat helps), to make thin strips about 1 inch wide and 2 inches long.
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper In a small bowl, mix cinnamon, oregano, ginger and allspice.
• Sprinkle this mixture over steak strips.
• In a large deep frying pan or wok, melt butter with oil over medium high heat and add steak and brown on all sides, a third at a time so as not to crowd the meat.
• Remove the strips when they are well browned.
• When all the meat is browned, reduce the heat to medium and add the slivered onion.
• Cook, stirring often, until soft and lightly browned, about 5-7 minutes.
• Blend in garlic, brown sugar, tomato paste and vinegar.
• Add the wine and bring to the boiling point.
• Cover and reduce heat and cook for 15 minutes.
• Increase heat back to medium and cook and stir onion mixture, uncovered, until it is slightly reduced and thickened.
• Mix in beef strips and any juices that collected; turn meat gently, coating with onion mixture until heated through.
• Transfer to a warm serving platter and sprinkle with feta cheese and parsley.

BEEF STIFADO

Steps:

• Season the beef with salt and pepper.
• Place butter in the bottom of a large crockpot.
• Add the meat and turn to coat with butter.
• Arrange the onions over the meat.
• Mix the tomato paste through the garlic, and pour over the meat and onions, but do not stir.
• Add the bay leaf through the raisins; do not stir.
• Simmer on low 8-10 hours.
• At serving time, remove the bay leaf, cinnamon stick and cloves and stir the stifado gently to blend.

RABBIT WITH ONIONS - STIFADO

Steps:

• Cut the rabbit in pieces. Place in a bowl, sprinkle with vinegar and let soak for about 2 hours. Heat the olive oil. Wipe the rabbit pieces dry, then fry and put in a stewing pot. Add the tomato paste or tomatoes, strained through a colander, the vinegar cloves of one whole garlic bulb, the bay leaves, rosemary, salt, pepper, 2 cups of water and the frying pan oil. Let the meal cook for about 45 minutes. In the remaining oil, fry the onions, already peeled and washed, then pour them into the stewing rabbit. Cover the pot and let the meal cook slowly until only very little sauce remains. Note: Everything can be put in the pot without first frying them. That is, the pieces of rabbit, onions, tomato paste, water, garlic, bay leaves rosemary, salt and pepper. Cover the pot and let the meal slowly cook.

STIFADO

Steps:

• 1. *Note: if you cannot find pearl onions, substitute with a comparable amount of red onion. Also, be very careful when buying a can of fire-roasted tomatoes. Some brands (Muir Glen as an example) include chili powder in the ingredients' list. Read the label. You don't want spicy tomatoes! It will overpower all the other flavors. Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil over medium heat. When the pot is hot, add half of the stew meat. Brown the meat then transfer to a plate. Add the remaining olive oil and brown the rest of the meat. Transfer the second batch to the plate.
• 2. Now add the pearl onions to the pot and sautè until they start to soften. Add the minced garlic and the beef broth to the pot, scraping up any of the browned bits from the bottom of the pot.
• 3. Add the cooked beef and *any* juices that have accumulated back into the post. Stir in the remaining ingredients and enough water to cover the meat and onion mixture.
• 4. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat and simmer gently, partially covered 2-3 hours or until the meat is tender and the sauce has thickened.
• 5. Remove the whole cinnamon stick and cloves. Serve over orzo/pasta, mashed potatoes, rice, quinoa or similar. For a complete meal, serve a crisp green salad on the side. We served our stew with a spinach salad that included carrots, bell pepper, cucumber and a scattering of feta. Imported Greek olives on the side. Pass the salt and pepper shakers.