Greek Style Beef And Vegetables Recipes

Steps:

• Place beef in a bowl and season generously with pepper and kosher salt. Cover and transfer to the refrigerator until ready to use; up to 1 day is fine.
• Leaving the root ends in place, cut off the shallot tops. Remove and discard skins.
• Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a heavy skillet over high heat. Add ½ of the beef and cook until nicely seared, 4 to 6 minutes per side. Remove to a plate and repeat to sear remaining beef.
• Turn off the heat and add 1 tablespoon oil to the empty skillet. Add shallots and let the skillet cool for 2 to 3 minutes. Turn the heat back on to medium and toss shallots until browned, 2 to 4 minutes. Remove shallots to a plate.
• Add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil to the skillet with onion, garlic, and a pinch of salt; cook and stir for about 1 minute. Stir in tomato paste and cook until toasted, about 2 minutes. Add red wine vinegar and white wine and bring to a boil while scraping the browned bits of food off the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Increase heat to medium-high and add sugar, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, oregano, bay leaves, and rosemary sprigs. Stir to combine and cook until reduced by about half, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add browned beef and shallots to the skillet and toss carefully until coated. Pour in 2 cups beef broth and bring to a simmer.
• Reduce heat to low or medium-low. Cover and cook at a gentle simmer for 1 hour, then uncover and cook for at least 1 more hour, stirring occasionally to move the beef and shallots around. Add more broth if needed during the cooking time and skim off some fat if preferred. The meat is done when a fork slides in easily, but the meat isn't falling apart on its own; it may take longer than 2 hours.
• Taste and adjust seasonings before serving.

Steps:

• Combine the ingredients for the marinade (lemon juice, black pepper, salt, oregano, basil, garlic. The recipe gave me trouble in posting, sorry) in a plastic zipper lock bag.
• A large"freezer" quality bag is best.
• Add beef to bag, remove as much air as possible.
• Knead the beef between your fingers to encourage tenderness and to jump start the marinading process.
• Refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight.
• Remove beef from marinade, but don't drain it.
• Heat olive oil in frying pan and cook beef thouroughly.
• Remove beef from pan, set aside.
• Use remaining oil to sauté onion.
• Add salt to separate layers slightly.
• Add peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes.
• Re-introduce beef.
• Cook until tomatoes get tender.
• This won't take very long.
• Serve over white rice and garnish with feta cheese and black olives if desired.

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a 5-quart pressure cooker over medium-high heat. Add half the beef; cook and stir until well browned on all sides. Remove beef with a slotted spoon and set aside. Brown the remaining meat and set aside.
• Place chopped onion in the pressure cooker; cook and stir for 1 minute. Add the garlic and stir for an additional minute. Pour in the red wine, red wine vinegar, and beef broth; stir in the tomato paste and mix well.
• Grind or crush rosemary, oregano, and peppercorns in a mortar and pestle or spice grinder. Add crushed spices to the cooker with bay leaves, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, black pepper, and brown sugar.
• Pour in tomatoes and their juice; rinse the can with 1/2 cup water and add the water to the cooker. Stir in potatoes and carrots. Return the browned meat to the pressure cooker. A 5-quart pot should be about half full and a little soupy; the potato will dissolve a bit and thicken it after cooking. Cover the pot and seal the lid.
• Bring the pot up to high pressure over high heat. Reduce the heat to low, maintaining full pressure, and cook for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and let the pressure reduce naturally. Taste the stew and add salt, if desired.

Steps:

• Trim and discard fat from steak; place steak in shallow dish. Pour 1/4 cup dressing over steak; turn to evenly coat both sides of steak. Refrigerate 30 min. to marinate.
• Heat oven to 400°F. Heat large heavy ovenproof nonstick skillet on medium-high heat. Remove steak from marinade; discard marinade. Place steak in skillet; sprinkle with garlic powder. Place onions around steak; cook 3 min. or until bottom of steak is browned. Remove from heat. Turn steak. Toss remaining vegetables with remaining dressing. Add to skillet; stir to mix with onions. Place skillet in oven.
• Bake 18 to 20 min. or until steak is medium doneness (160°F).
• Cut steak across the grain into thin slices; place on serving plates. Top with vegetable mixture. Serve with rice.