Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, giouvetsi. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Giouvetsi, or youvetsi is a centuries old dish that was traditionally served as a one-pot meal and in the old days it would have been baked in a home's wood burning oven. There were also many instances where a home did not have an oven but each village had at least one bakery supplying bread for the guaranteed demand of the villagers. Giouvetsi is one of those dishes that once you get to know you'll want to make over and over again.

Giouvetsi is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Giouvetsi is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook giouvetsi using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Giouvetsi:

1. Make ready veal, cubed
2. Get large onions
3. Get olive oil
4. Get vegetable flavored Bouillon Cube
5. Get garlic (cut in 4 pieces)
6. Take orzo or hilopites pasta
7. Make ready red wine
8. Take ripe tomatoes
9. Take tomato paste
10. Take sugar
11. Make ready feta cheese
12. Prepare Parmesan

It's an oven-baked meal, featuring kritharaki (orzo) and meat (veal, beef, chicken or lamb can be used) cooked in a homemade tomato sauce. Giouvetsi or Youvetsi (pronounced ; from Turkish güveç) is a baked Greek dish made with chicken, lamb or beef and pasta, either kritharaki or hilopites (small square noodles), and tomato sauce (usually spiced with allspice and sometimes cinnamon, cloves or bay leaves). Other common ingredients include onions/shallots, garlic, beef stock, and red wine, as well as some cheese to serve. Giouvetsi is a one pot Greek dish where the meat is baked along with the pasta.

Instructions to make Giouvetsi:

1. In a pressure cooker, sauté the chopped onions and brown the veal cubes in the heated olive oil.  Add 250ml water and cook for approximately 15 minutes, depending on the size of the meat cubes.
2. Empty the contents of the pressure cooker into an ovenproof dish, preferrably a lidded one. Add the stock cubes, tomatoes, sugar, garlic, salt and pepper, and the orzo.  You can use more or less orzo, depending on the size of your dish.  Add the wine and at least 250ml water.
3. Cover.  If your dish does not have a lid, cover well with alluminium foil.
4. Bake in a preheated oven, at 170 degrees C, for 1 to 2 hours.  After 1,5 hours, remove the lid, add the crumbled feta cheese, stirring it through the meal.  Sprinkle the grated Parmesan cheese on top, and return to the oven, uncovered,  for a further 10 minutes.
5. Keep an eye on it, until it is ready.

The recipe for giouvetsi is quite simple and I realized immediately that the secret was that while the meat is cooking its juices drip right into the pasta where its flavours are absorbed. You only need a handful of ingredients to make giouvetsi, a lot of them pantry staples. • beef, lamb or chicken: I prefer to use beef or lamb in this recipe but chicken thighs can also be used • onions, garlic, carrots, celery • tinned chopped tomatoes and tomato paste. Giouvetsi is one of those delicious Sunday lunch Greek casseroles, just like the all-time favorite moussaka, or the baked shrimp with tomatoes and feta (garides saganaki), the gemista (Greek stuffed tomatoes and bell peppers), the roast lamb and the large baked beans (Gigandes/Gigantes plaki). Greek beef and orzo casserole - Giouvetsi. Excludes foods such as milk, yoghurt, cheese and their by-products.

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