Greek Beef Stew
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 3 lbs stew meat, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, diced
- 5 tablespoons butter
- 1 1⁄2 cups water
- salt
- 1 bay leaf
- pepper
- 2 lbs white onions
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1⁄2 lb mushroom, sliced
- 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
- 3⁄4 lb monterey jack cheese, grated
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
directions
- In a heavy kettle, brown meat in butter.
- Season lightly with salt and pepper.
- Add chopped onion and saute until clear.
- Mix in tomato paste, vinegar, garlic and half of the water.
- Add bay leaf.
- Cover and simmer 1 hour, adding additional water as needed.
- Add white onions and mushrooms.
- Cover and simmer 1 more hour or until meat and onions are tender.
- Add cheese, cover and cook 5 minutes, or until cheese melts.
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Reviews
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Very good. I did make these alterations, which I felt were in the spirit of a Greek stew recipe. Instead of butter, I used 3 tblsps olive oil, and intstead of the monterey jack, I used a Greek graviera cheese. Also upped the garlic to 3 cloves for this amount of meat. I got a very flavourful stew which I served over buttered rice. This would probably be called 'stifado' here in Greece (the quantity of onion - and we would use pearl onions here, I just used white onions, quartered, as the recipe didn't specify). The ingredients are not in the same order as stated in the instructions and this requires constant checking back and forth. Good recipe.
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Very good. I did make these alterations, which I felt were in the spirit of a Greek stew recipe. Instead of butter, I used 3 tblsps olive oil, and intstead of the monterey jack, I used a Greek graviera cheese. Also upped the garlic to 3 cloves for this amount of meat. I got a very flavourful stew which I served over buttered rice. This would probably be called 'stifado' here in Greece (the quantity of onion - and we would use pearl onions here, I just used white onions, quartered, as the recipe didn't specify). The ingredients are not in the same order as stated in the instructions and this requires constant checking back and forth. Good recipe.
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Dreamgoddess
United States