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Moschari kokkinisto

Greek beef braised in a red sauce of tomato, wine, cinnamon and allspice.

Moschari kokkinisto
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Recipe-1 is one simple curry recipe in nine steps: fry onions and green chillies, add your vegetables or meat, add chilli powder and turmeric, then water and salt, and boil. With small changes the same nine steps make curries from all over the world.

This page takes those nine steps and shows what to change to make Moschari kokkinisto. You don’t need to read anything else first: every base step is written out below. The changes are worked out on paper from what is typical for this dish; not yet kitchen-tested. Cooked it? Tell others how it went.

Green: the base recipe step (crossed out = do not use it for this dish)Red: what to do instead for Moschari kokkinisto

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You’ll need

How many people?4

The amounts change with the number of people; cooking times stay about the same (use a bigger pot for more). Taste as you go: you can always add more chilli or salt, but you cannot take it out.

Main ingredient: 1 kg Beef chuck in large cubes.

From the base recipe

  • 2 Onions
  • Green chillies not used
  • 5 tbsp Cooking oil
  • Red chilli powder not used
  • Turmeric not used
  • 1 tsp · 400 ml Salt and water
  • Ginger garlic paste not used
  • Cloves, cardamom and cinnamon not used
  • Garam masala (optional) not used

Add for Moschari kokkinisto

  • 3 · 2 tbsp Tomatoes and tomato paste
  • 200 ml Red wine
  • 1 · 5 Cinnamon stick and allspice
  • 2 Bay leaves
  • 3 Garlic
  • a little Olive oil

Leave out

  • Green chillies
  • Chilli powder
  • Turmeric
  • Garam masala

The nine steps, with the changes

Where a step has a red line, do the red line and not the crossed-out green base step. Steps with only green are done just as in the base recipe.

  1. Base step: do not useCut onions and chillies.

    Moschari kokkinisto: do thisChop the onions; skip the chillies.

  2. Base step: do not useFry in some oil for around 4 minutes on medium-high heat.

    Moschari kokkinisto: do thisFry in olive oil with garlic.

  3. Base step: do not useCut the vegetable(s) of your choice.

    Moschari kokkinisto: do thisUse the beef.

  4. Base step: do not useAdd them and fry for around 4 minutes on medium-high heat.

    Moschari kokkinisto: do thisBrown the beef, then add the tomato paste and the wine.

  5. Base step: do not useAdd red chilli powder and turmeric.

    Moschari kokkinisto: do thisAdd cinnamon, allspice and bay instead of chilli and turmeric.

  6. Keep frying until just before they start browning.

  7. Base step: do not useAdd some water.

    Moschari kokkinisto: do thisAdd the tomatoes and water to cover.

  8. Add salt.

  9. Base step: do not useBoil until the gravy is as thick as you like.

    Moschari kokkinisto: do thisSimmer 1½–2 hours until tender.

Serve: With pasta, rice or mashed potato.

For meat and seafood, make sure it is cooked through: chicken until no pink remains inside; mutton, goat and beef need long, slow cooking.

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Food marks, as on packaged food in India: vegetarian · non-vegetarian (meat, fish or egg). Dishes with both marks can be made either way.

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