Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, rooster pastitsada. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
How to cook the most typical Corfiot dish also well know in Paxos. A really nice dish that can be prepared with rooster or calf. This is the Rooster pastitsada recipe that will blow you away!
Rooster pastitsada is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Rooster pastitsada is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have rooster pastitsada using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Rooster pastitsada:
- Get 1 rooster, 2 1/2 kg -3 kg in weight
- Take 1/2 cup oil
- Make ready 4 large onions
- Make ready 8 cloves garlic
- Make ready salt
- Take 15 pepper grains
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups sweet red wine
- Make ready 12 grains of allspice
- Prepare 3 cinnamon sticks
- Get sugar
- Take 2 tsp spetsieriko (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, bay leaves, allspice, cumin powder)
- Get fresh basil leaves
- Get 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Take 3 ripe tomatoes
- Get 1 kg hollow spaghetti or penne
- Prepare butter for the pasta
- Make ready graviera (hard Greek cheese for grating) from Corfu, grated
- Take water
This traditional Greek dish hails from Corfu and typically employs rooster cuts or beef. Pastitsada (Greek: Παστιτσάδα) is a Greek dish consisting of pasta topped with meat braised in a spicy tomato-based sauce. See recipes for Corfu's spetsieriko (spice mix) for pastitsada too. A casserole dish, one traditional pastitsada recipe features lean leg or shoulder of veal and macaroni, as well olive oil, minced onions, sliced garlic cloves, salt.
Steps 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. Often associated with the island of Corfu, where it is a traditional Sunday dinner, it is sometimes called pastitsada Korfiatiki. A casserole dish, one traditional pastitsada recipe features lean leg or shoulder of veal and macaroni, as well olive oil, minced onions. 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. #Pastitsada - Corfu Chicken Pasta traditional local #recipe. Pastitsada is a speciality from the island of Corfu and the local Sunday's family lunch or dinner.
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