my very special Kokkinisto

This is a meat dish, a man's favourite, and it can be cooked at very low heat for maximum tenderness. It is a beef stew flavoured with vine ripe tomatoes and loads of onion.

Let's Cook it:

500gr tender beef steak
2 large very ripe vine tomatoes
A tin of canned tomatoes
2 large onions
2 bay leaves
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
A splash of red wine


At first dice the steak. Pour half a cup of olive oil in a large non stick pot, and grate the onions in it too. Put on medium to high heat. Put the diced meat in and turn slowly till the meat is slightly brown.splash a bit of red wine. Grate the tomatoes and put in the casserole together with the tin tomatoes, the bay leaves and salt and pepper.pour in, a mug of water or two and reduce the heat to low. Let it cook for hours with half the lid on, and please check it out often for safety. (Although my nan would shoot off to the veg market at this moment, letting the stew to cook on its own, while she was doing her shopping, an action which is to be avoided by you at all costs!).

When the meat is 'shreadable' and the sauce has eliminated down to the bottom, then stop cooking;

This dish can be part of a...' party of flavours' when you add homemade chips and feta cheese as side dishes and of course loads of crusty bread and a glass of red wine ! ' Mmmmmm' as the greeks would express at this moment, which means: 'yuuuum!'