Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, rooster pastitsada. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Rooster pastitsada is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Rooster pastitsada is something that I have loved my entire life.
This traditional Greek dish hails from Corfu and typically employs rooster cuts or beef. EatWith chef Michail cooks up tender young rooster in an open-air, rooftop kitchen in Athens, Greece. He was kind enough to show me how he makes his.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook rooster pastitsada using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Rooster pastitsada:
- Get 1 rooster, 2 1/2 kg -3 kg in weight
- Make ready 1/2 cup oil
- Get 4 large onions
- Prepare 8 cloves garlic
- Make ready salt
- Prepare 15 pepper grains
- Take 1 1/2 cups sweet red wine
- Get 12 grains of allspice
- Take 3 cinnamon sticks
- Make ready sugar
- Make ready 2 tsp spetsieriko (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, bay leaves, allspice, cumin powder)
- Get fresh basil leaves
- Get 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Make ready 3 ripe tomatoes
- Take 1 kg hollow spaghetti or penne
- Take butter for the pasta
- Prepare graviera (hard Greek cheese for grating) from Corfu, grated
- Take water
Traditional Pastitsada is made with rooster, however more commonly it is made with veal or chicken. The meat is cooked with fresh tomatoes, wine, onions and cloves, cinnamon, and allspice. Go heavy on the onions and the oil, this is NOT a light dish! A nice hearty bowl of pastitsada was exactly what the doctor ordered on a night like tonight 😍 We were reminiscing on the dish as we used to have it all the time in Corfu.
Instructions to make Rooster pastitsada:
- Cut the rooster into pieces. Heat the oil in a shallow pan and sear the pieces until golden brown.
- Add the dry spices, the onions and garlic, mix and stir in the wine little by little.
- Add the finely chopped tomato, the sugar, the spetsieriko, a little basil and add hot water until all the portions are covered. Let it simmer.
- When the rooster gets tender, add the tomato paste dissolved in a little hot water as well as the salt.
- Wait for the sauce to thicken and remove from heat.
- Meanwhile boil the pasta in plenty of salted water.
- Strain them and add them to the pot with the butter. Mix so that they are well buttered. (**)
- Remove the meat from the pot, place it into a platter and add the pasta to the sauce. Mix well and serve with grated cheese and a few leaves of fresh basil.
Pastitsada (Greek: Παστιτσάδα) is a Greek dish. Pastitsada (Greek: Παστιτσάδα) is a Greek dish. Pastitsada is usually served in Corfu with beef or rooster as the pictures show. You can also find pastitsada served with octopus or lobster. Order the rooster pastitsada with Parmesan foam, caramelized onion and tomato confit, or the equally unorthodox lamb frumenty with Greek coffee-scented butter and lamb frumenty.
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