Slow Cooked Beef Stiffado Recipes

SLOW-COOKED BEEF STIFADO

Steps:

• In a 3 1/2 quart slow cooker, toss the beef with the flour until evenly coated. Mix in the onions. In a small bowl, stir together the tomato paste, red wine, cumin, cinnamon, lemon juice, and water until well blended. Stir into the beef mixture in the slow cooker. Cover and cook on low heat setting 6-7 hours or until meat is tender, but not falling apart. Stir in the sugar.
• Serve topped with the walnuts and the Feta cheese. Serve over noodles or rice.

SLOW COOKED BEEF STIFFADO

Steps:

• Heat oil over medium heat and brown the beef in batches, transfer to slow cooker when browned.
• Add onions to pan and cook until soft.
• Add garlic, cinnamon and allspice and cook for 1 min, add vinegar, tomato sauce, sugar and bay leaf and stir to combine.
• Pour mixture over beef and cook on low for 8 to 10 hours or high for 4 to 5 hours.
• Add feta cheese and cook on high for 10 minutes.
• Discard bay leaf.
• Serve with potatoes.l.

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.

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.

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.