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- n. A Greek stew, typically made from meat, tomatoes, onions and herbs
Examples
“Laurie I love mushrooms and the stifado is awesome.”
“Try the octopus stifado at Amfiliki restaurant, washed down with a tsipouro (like grappa) and go to Kentavros bar (where the spirit of the 1960s lives on) to hear whose yacht is in the harbour.”
“They form an enchanting, if slightly twee, setting, where holidaying couples and yachties potter from taverna to taverna to ponder whose bream might be freshest, which rabbit stifado the more traditional.”
“More copious meals may lead to dipping pita bread into taramosalata (Greek caviar spread), olives, an order of mousaka (an eggplant-based meat dish), khoriatiki salata (typical Greek salad with feta cheese), stifado (another lamb-based dish), and, a rich array of seafood, including red mullet, calamari and octopus.”
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“I've only ever eaten stifado with hare and I really like this vegan version.”
“I recall eating hare stifado as a child but mushroom stifado ...”
“I bet you'd like cauliflower stifado, it's another good veg dish.”
“Of course, I like my kababs and korma, and the occasional pork chops and prawns, to say nothing of a juicy steak and a stifado, or an aromatic biryani and bouillabaisse.”
“Hearty dishes for a cold night included the stifado, or beef stew, of braised short ribs with tomato, garlic, bay leaf, cinnamon and whole baby onions; and the lamb shank, flavored similarly but with a healthy amount of Palivou, a full-bodied red wine from a vineyard whose owner is a friend of Nikos Panteleakis's.”
“She’d do a stifado of beef and pearl onions simmered in a red wine sauce.”
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qroqqa στιφαδο
A Greek stew of meat typically with onions and tomatoes. Also stiphado and variants; Anne Michaels in Fugitive Pieces uses the hybrid form stifhado with spurious H (so also in her 'zudeccha' for 'zudecca'). Jul 4, 2008