Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, giouvetsi. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Giouvetsi, or youvetsi is a centuries old dish that was traditionally served as a one-pot meal and in the old days it would have been baked in a home's wood burning oven. There were also many instances where a home did not have an oven but each village had at least one bakery supplying bread for the guaranteed demand of the villagers. Well, Greek γιουβετσι (it is also spelled youvetsi or yiouvetsi) is a delicious classic Greek dish. It is a meat and pasta bake that can contain a variety of different meats.
Giouvetsi is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Giouvetsi is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have giouvetsi using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Giouvetsi:
- Take 500 g diced beef
- Get 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- Make ready 2 tsp garlic paste
- Take 2 carrots sliced
- Take 500 g passatta
- Take 250 ml water (more if required)
- Make ready 1 tbsp tomato puree
- Get 1 glass red wine (Alcohol Free optional)
- Make ready 1 cinnamon stick
- Take 1 tsp Dried marjoram
- Get 1 tsp Dried rosemary
- Make ready 5-6 whole cloves
- Make ready 2 tbs olive oil (Greek if Possible)
- Prepare 200 g orzo pasta
- Get Fresh Basil
Here is an easy to follow recipe that you are sure to love! Giouvetsi is a delicious and easy baked Greek pasta dish made with chicken, lamb or beef, orzo and tomato sauce. Also called Youvetsi, Giouvesti is one of those recipes that calls for about twenty minutes of active prep - searing meat, sautéing chopped vegetables, and toasting the orzo. Giouvetsi is one of the most popular Greek traditional dishes.
Instructions to make Giouvetsi:
- Mix the beef with seasoned flour. - Heat a pan with olive oil and brown off the beef, add the onions, garlic paste, carrots, Dried herbs, whole cloves, tomato purée and cinnamon stick and gently fry until the onions soften.
- Add the wine and cook until the wine has reduced right down to nothing. - Add the passata and water, bring to the boil, cover and simmer, checking regularly for an hour and half. If the sauce starts to become dry just add a drop more water.
- Heat a small sauté pan, add some olive oil and gently fry the orzo pasta until slightly brown. - After an hour and half tip the orzo pasta into the stew and cook slowly for another 45 mins. - Serve in a warmed bowl and stir in some fresh basil.
- TIP : The longer you can slow cook the stew the better, I continued to cook for a further three hours making sure you check regularly.
Also called Youvetsi, Giouvesti is one of those recipes that calls for about twenty minutes of active prep - searing meat, sautéing chopped vegetables, and toasting the orzo. Giouvetsi is one of the most popular Greek traditional dishes. It's an oven-baked dish, made with pasta and meat (beef, chicken or lamb), usually baked in a ceramic or pyrex baking dish. The most commonly used pasta for this type of recipe is orzo (called kritharaki in Greek). Giouvetsi is an age-old Greek dish consisting of beef, lamb or chicken baked in a tomato-based sauce with pasta and other ingredients.
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