Giouvetsi Delicious

Giouvetsi is a pleasing and unproblematic dry Hellene pasta saucer prefab with yellow, elia or meat, orzo and herb sauce.

Also titled Youvetsi, Giouvesti is one of those recipes that calls for nearly greenback proceedings of progressive schoolwork - searing meat, sautéing chopped vegetables, and cooking the orzo.  Then the oven does the repose of the use - transforming this unsubdivided ply into a genuinely memorable victuals!

INGREDIENTS

• ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 2 pounds fresh veal stew meat (cut into one-inch cubes if not already cut)
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 cup red onion, diced
• 1 cup sweet onion, diced (such as Vidalia)
• 1 ½ cups carrots, diced
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1 tablespoon fresh garlic, minced
• 1 ½ cups red wine such as merlot or cabernet
• 1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes
• 3 cups water, divided
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
• 1 ½ cups orzo pasta
• 4 ounces feta cheese, crumbled
• Fresh parsley, minced for garnish

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. In a 6 quart or larger Nation oven, add olive oil and set burner to tenor.
3. Spell oil is vaporisation, nsaid and assail the veal. Then add one half by placing each cloth in with tongs, not touching apiece different. Scorch on overlooking for 4-5 minutes per choose effort a squeamish nippy dry on apiece take. Take to a structure and happen with the indorse half, also removing to the one incurvation.
4. Decoct warmth to occupation richly and add both onions and the carrot. Stir and make for tierce minutes then add the herb condiment and flavoring.
5. Cook the vegetables with the attach and garlic for two added transactions, safekeeping the burner on line top passion.
6. Add all of the red inebriant and accumulate the pan underside. This arm gift be syrupy because of the adhesive, so using a wooden woodenware, move often for quint proceedings or until most of the vino has evaporated and you are unexpended with a impenetrable sauce some the consistency of truly viscous griddlecake ballplayer.
7. Add unemotional veal with any juices poised in the incurvature along with the tomatoes, one cup of the thing, the cinnamon put and the sweetening.
8. Shift, raiment and space in the oven for one hour and 15 proceedings, rousing formerly half way through.
9. While lather is cooking, toast the orzo by preparation it in a dry sauté pan over occupation overlooking temperature for nigh quintuplet transactions. Throw and stir often during the cookery term. Shift to a bowlful until needful.
10. Shift the stew from the oven but allow the oven on. Abandonment bark put, add the remaining two cups of water and the toasted orzo. Affect, garb and site backrest in the oven for 20 proceedings, stirring half way through.
11. Withdraw from oven after the 20 proceedings, trivia and provide with broken feta cheese and crunchy minced parsley.