Recipe: Delicious Rooster pastitsada

Rooster pastitsada. How to cook the most typical Corfiot dish also well know in Paxos. A really nice dish that can be prepared with rooster or calf. Here is the original authentic recipe with the ingredients and the way to make the most characteristic dish of Corfu's cuisine.

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Ingredients of Rooster pastitsada

1. Prepare 1 of rooster, 2 1/2 kg -3 kg in weight.
2. You need 1/2 cup of oil.
3. Prepare 4 of large onions.
4. Prepare 8 cloves of garlic.
5. You need of salt.
6. You need 15 of pepper grains.
7. You need 1 1/2 cups of sweet red wine.
8. Prepare 12 of grains of allspice.
9. Prepare 3 of cinnamon sticks.
10. It's of sugar.
11. It's 2 tsp of spetsieriko (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, bay leaves, allspice, cumin powder).
12. Prepare of fresh basil leaves.
13. It's 2 tbsp of tomato paste.
14. It's 3 of ripe tomatoes.
15. It's 1 kg of hollow spaghetti or penne.
16. It's of butter for the pasta.
17. You need of graviera (hard Greek cheese for grating) from Corfu, grated.
18. You need of water.

Rooster pastitsada step by step

1. Cut the rooster into pieces. Heat the oil in a shallow pan and sear the pieces until golden brown..
2. Add the dry spices, the onions and garlic, mix and stir in the wine little by little..
3. Add the finely chopped tomato, the sugar, the spetsieriko, a little basil and add hot water until all the portions are covered. Let it simmer..
4. When the rooster gets tender, add the tomato paste dissolved in a little hot water as well as the salt..
5. Wait for the sauce to thicken and remove from heat..
6. Meanwhile boil the pasta in plenty of salted water..
7. Strain them and add them to the pot with the butter. Mix so that they are well buttered. (**).
8. Remove the meat from the pot, place it into a platter and add the pasta to the sauce. Mix well and serve with grated cheese and a few leaves of fresh basil..