Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, rooster pastitsada. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Corfiot pastitsada is probably the most popular dish in the island. This recipe is made until today in the region of Verona and its original name was pastissada or Pastissáda de cavál, because people made it with horse meat. Every corfiot housewife has her own recipe but I shall provide you with an original corfiot pastitsada recipe, a traditional housewife once gave me.
Rooster pastitsada is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Rooster pastitsada is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook rooster pastitsada using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Rooster pastitsada:
- Prepare 1 rooster, 2 1/2 kg -3 kg in weight
- Get 1/2 cup oil
- Take 4 large onions
- Get 8 cloves garlic
- Get salt
- Prepare 15 pepper grains
- Get 1 1/2 cups sweet red wine
- Make ready 12 grains of allspice
- Get 3 cinnamon sticks
- Take sugar
- Get 2 tsp spetsieriko (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, bay leaves, allspice, cumin powder)
- Prepare fresh basil leaves
- Get 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Take 3 ripe tomatoes
- Make ready 1 kg hollow spaghetti or penne
- Prepare butter for the pasta
- Take graviera (hard Greek cheese for grating) from Corfu, grated
- Make ready water
Put the spaghetti in the sauce and mix well to absorb the juices. Pastitsada is a specialty from the island of Corfu, located on the Ionian side of Greece. Braised Beef, rooster or chicken in an aromatic tomato sauce and served with Misko bucatini-type pasta. Rooster Ragu aka Pastitsada I used a pressure cooker to fasten up the cooking process but this works in the oven also, just takes longer.
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.
Keep the remaining carcass in the freezer till you need to make stock. Pastitsada is a speciality from the island of Corfu. It is traditionally made with rooster, but can also be cooked with veal. However, if these meats are not to someone's taste, it can easily be made with beef and is also tasty and we find that children usually prefer it this way. Pastitsada, one of the signature dishes of Corfu, is not just another stew with tomatoes and a few spices.
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