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Giouvetsi

Name: Giouvetsi
Total time: 100 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Greece
Ingredients: 400 g orzo; 800 g beef or lamb; 1 onion; 1 tin tinned tomato / passata or tomato paste; 2 cloves garlic; 80 g hard cheese (kefalotyri/parmesan); 1 stick cinnamon; 1 bay leaf; 100 ml red wine

⏱ 100 minMedium🇬🇷 Greece4 servings

Ingredients

orzo400 g
beef or lamb800 g
onion1
tinned tomato / passata or tomato paste1 tin

Optional

garlic2 cloves
hard cheese (kefalotyri/parmesan)80 g
cinnamon1 stick
bay leaf1
red wine100 ml

Assumed: salt, pepper, oil, water.

Method

Brown the meat pieces.
Add onion, tomato, cinnamon and water. Simmer 60 min.
Transfer to a baking dish, add the orzo and hot water.
Bake at 200°C for 25–30 min, stirring once. Serve with cheese.

Tip: The water you add must be boiling — otherwise the orzo turns mushy.

Nutrition per serving (estimate)

920kcal

54 gprotein

41 gfat

82 gcarbs

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