Beef casserole with baby onions

Name: Beef casserole with baby onions
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 75 ml/5 tbsp olive oil; 1 kg/2¼ lb good stewing or braising steak, cut into large cubes; 3 garlic cloves, chopped; 5 ml/1 tsp ground cumin; 30 ml/2 tbsp tomato paste diluted in 1 litre/1¾ pints/4 cups hot water; 2 bay leaves, crumbled; salt and ground black pepper; 30 ml/2 tbsp tomato paste diluted in 1 litre/1¾ pints/4 cups hot water; 175 ml/6 fl oz/¾ cup red wine; 5 cm/2 in piece of cinnamon stick; small sprig of fresh rosemary; 30 ml/2 tbsp red wine vinegar; 675 g/1½ lb small pickling-size onions, peeled and left whole; salt and ground black pepper; 15 ml/1 tbsp demerara/raw sugar; 15 ml/1 tbsp demerara/raw sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

The Food & Cooking of Greece

By Rena Salaman

Published 2023

About

Moshari stifatho is an unusual but mouthwatering dish, with the small pickling-size onions melting in the mouth with sweetness. In Greece, a stifatho is occasionally also made with rabbit or octopus. This is the kind of easy dish that can be left simmering slowly in the oven for hours without coming to any harm. Serve it with boiled rice, pasta, creamy mashed potatoes or fried potatoes.

Ingredients

Europe
Greece
Main course
Stew
Winter
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

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