🇬🇷 How to Make Youvetsi

Craving Youvetsi? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Youvetsi at home, in about 2 hrs, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 800g beef, in big chunks
• 250g orzo pasta
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic
• 400g tin chopped tomatoes
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 750ml hot beef stock
• 100g grated kefalotyri or parmesan

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Brown the beef hard in batches. Crowding the pan steams it and you lose the crust.
2. Soften the onion and garlic, return the beef, add the tomatoes and cinnamon stick.
3. Cover and cook at 170°C for 90 min until the beef gives way to a spoon.
4. Stir in the orzo and the hot stock. It looks like far too much liquid — it isn't.
5. Back in the oven uncovered for 20 min, stirring once, until the orzo is tender and the top catches.
6. Cheese over the top, rest 10 min. The orzo keeps drinking as it sits.