Stifado is a thick, onion-y Greek stew perfect for chilly nights when you want a cozy dinner! Though stifado is often made with beef or lamb, I have chosen to create a chicken stifado, adding artichokes to mix and wrapping it all up in a thick, rich tomato and wine based sauce. Yum!
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However, using lots of small onions is the traditional way to make stifado. It is time consuming, but whole (or halved) little onions keep more of their onion flavor and have a firmer texture than ones which have been chopped up and softened as the stew has braised.
Stifado sauce usually consists of tomatoes, onions, and cinnamon. The result is a warm, cozy blanket for any animal protein or veggie. One of my favorite ways to use this sauce is in this homemade chicken stew!
Serving wise, you can pair it with some delicious crusty bread and with a refreshing Greek feta salad, or a Greek Orzo Salad (Orzo feta salad). Finally, a very popular variation of this beef stew is lamb stifado and rabbit stifado. So if you fancy experimenting, you can try swapping the beef with lamb or rabbit.
Stifado (or stifatho) is a Greek red wine stew. When Greeks cook stifado, they usually make a rabbit or beef stew cooked slowly in a rich and delicious wine sauce. Traditionally stifado was cooked exclusively with rabbit meat. But the beef was more accessible and acceptable to Greek cooks through the years, so it is the most common meat used in the famous stew.
The traditional Greek octopus stifado recipe! We all know and love the classic Greek rabbit or beef stifado, but this very easy and simple to prepare octopus stew is the perfect dish for the Lenten period!
To prepare a traditional Greek octopus stifado, the octopus is braised with wine, shallot onions, tomato, aromatic herbs and spices creating a delightful stew. Let it simmer to allow its flavours to mingle into something much much more!
A traditional Greek octopus stifado recipe! This simple octopus stew is the perfect dish for the Lenten period! The octopus is braised with wine, shallot onions, tomato, aromatic herbs and spices creating a delightful stew.
The stifado recipe can be cooked with medium onions, cut into chunky pieces, but pearl onions and shallots are more suitable for an appetizing dish, as they hold their shapes much better. Apart from their aroma and eye catching appearance, onions have an important role in cooking, as these versatile vegetables contain an agent called pectin (same can be found in apples) which thickens the stew while being cooked and it results in a full-bodied, thick gravy. 2ff7e9595c
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