Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, ropa vieja (cuban style stewed shredded beef). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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This recipe for Cuban beef stew is known as ropa vieja which means "old clothes" in Spanish. The name describes the shreds of meat and vegetables in the dish which resemble colorful strips of rags. This beef stew is hearty enough to eat on its own but also goes well over rice dishes and soaked up with crusty bread.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook ropa vieja (cuban style stewed shredded beef) using 25 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ropa Vieja (Cuban Style Stewed Shredded Beef):
- Get For efficiency, make sure to put the beef on the stove to boil before you start your knifework
- Prepare To boil the beef:
- Take 2.5-3 pound chuck roast cut into roughly 8 equal pieces (you can also use skirt or flank)
- Get 1/2 medium onion, cut in half
- Take 4 smashed garlic cloves
- Make ready 1 carrot, cut in thirds
- Get 1 celery stalk, cut in thirds
- Take 5 cups water, or enough to cover by about ½ an inch
- Get For the rest:
- Get 2 Tablespoons oil (olive or vegetable)
- Make ready half a medium onion, cut into ¼” strips vertically
- Make ready 1 red bell pepper, halved, cored, and cut into ¼” strips vertically
- Take 1/2 green bell pepper, cored and cut into ¼” strips vertically
- Get 4 cloves garlic, peeled and rough chopped
- Make ready 1/4 cup green pitted olives, cut into thirds or quarters
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin
- Prepare 1 teaspoon oregano
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- Take 2 bay leaves
- Take 1 1/2 Tablespoons tomato paste
- Make ready 1 (15 oz.) (or so) canned tomatoes
- Make ready 2 cups boiling liquid
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- Get 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Take 1/3 cup frozen peas (optional)
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Instructions to make Ropa Vieja (Cuban Style Stewed Shredded Beef):
- Put the beef, the ½ onion, carrot, celery, and four garlic cloves in a 4 or 5 quart Dutch oven, pour in the water, cover the pot, and place over high heat, until the meat comes to a rolling boil (about 15 to 20 minutes). Then turn the heat down to medium, keeping the pot completely covered, and continue to boil the beef for another 40 to 50 minutes, or until the thickest part of the largest piece of beef is very easily pierced with a fork.
- While the beef is boiling, do all your knifework and set aside. When the beef is boiled, remove all the pieces from the liquid and cool for at least 20 minutes or while you prepare the base of the stew. Save 2 cups of the liquid in a mixing bowl or other container. You can discard the rest, or save it, like I do, to use as soup or sauce stock.
- In your Dutch oven, bring 2 Tablespoons oil up to slightly higher than medium heat and saute your onions, peppers, and garlic for 3 or 4 minutes, or until the onions are translucent and begin to wilt.
- Add in the cumin, oregano, black pepper, and bay leaves and stir to distribute evenly. Then add in tomato paste, canned tomatoes, boiling liquid, 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt, and ½ teaspoon sugar, and stir to completely dissolve the tomato paste into the liquid. At this point, your beef should be ready to shred. Remember the turn the heat off while you shred. :)
- Loosely shred all the beef (it doesn’t have to be a fine shred, unless you insist on it that way, but it is a little more work. Besides, the simmering will continue to separate the meat fibers a little more.) and put into pot with the stewing liquid. Turn the heat up to medium high and stir to incorporate thoroughly.
- With the pot covered, bring the Ropa Vieja up to a rolling boil for about 2 minutes (should take 7 to 8 minutes), uncover, stir a couple of times, turn the heat down to medium and simmer, fully covered, for another 15 minutes, stirring a couple of times halfway.
- Remove the lid and simmer the ropa vieja for another 10 to 12 minutes, stirring a couple of times halfway through to ensure everything is evenly cooked. Taste the sauce and adjust seasoning if needed.
- Remove from heat and let cool for at least 15 minutes (this will give the flavors time to set and the sauce time to thicken). If you’re adding frozen peas, right after you cut the heat is when you would fold them in. Adding them in at the end helps them retain their texture and color better.
- Buen provecho! :)
Ropa Vieja means "old clothes" in Spanish. Old clothes tend to be shredded and so is the beef in this stew, hence the name. Sesame Fried Chicken Bites This kind of dish is perfect for the slow cooker. If you're not familiar with Ropa Vieja, it's a Cuban dish (actually the national dish of Cuba!) and it literally means "old clothes". I'm guessing it's called that because the meat is so tender and falls apart so easily!
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