Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, rooster pastitsada. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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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!
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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:
- Make ready 1 rooster, 2 1/2 kg -3 kg in weight
- Take 1/2 cup oil
- Get 4 large onions
- Get 8 cloves garlic
- Take salt
- Make ready 15 pepper grains
- Get 1 1/2 cups sweet red wine
- Take 12 grains of allspice
- Take 3 cinnamon sticks
- Make ready sugar
- Take 2 tsp spetsieriko (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, bay leaves, allspice, cumin powder)
- Prepare fresh basil leaves
- Take 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Get 3 ripe tomatoes
- Get 1 kg hollow spaghetti or penne
- Take butter for the pasta
- Prepare graviera (hard Greek cheese for grating) from Corfu, grated
- Take water
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, sliced garlic cloves, salt. Rooster pastitsada (braised rooster with spaghetti), from the book "Κορφιάτικες συνταγές της καλής και της νόνας" by Mrs Toula Katsarou - Vergeti. #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.
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. Pastitsada is usually served in Corfu with beef or rooster as the pictures show. You can also find pastitsada served with octopus or lobster.
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