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Pašticada

Name: Pašticada
Total time: 300 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Croatia
Ingredients: 1kg (leg, in one piece) Beef; 60g Bacon; 5 cloves Garlic; 200ml Wine Vinegar; 300ml Red wine; 2 Onion; 2 Carrot; 1 Celery; 2 tbsp Tomato paste; 8 Prunes; 3 Clove; A pinch Nutmeg; 2 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 3 tbsp Olive oil; 4 Potato; 150g All-purpose flour

Main Dish

⏱ 300 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Beef marinated in vinegar and braised for hours with wine and prunes, served with gnocchi — a Dalmatian celebration dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pašticada is Dalmatia's most prestigious dish, made for weddings and celebrations. Beef is larded with bacon and garlic, marinated overnight in wine vinegar, and braised for hours with dried plums, wine, and root vegetables. The rich sweet-sour sauce is spooned generously over homemade gnocchi.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a home in Split's old town, a pot bubbles gently in the kitchen from the eve of a celebration, and the next day the family gathers to enjoy it with gnocchi.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Beef 1kg (leg, in one piece)
Bacon 60g
Garlic 5 cloves
Wine Vinegar 200ml
Red wine 300ml
Onion 2
Carrot 2
Celery 1
Tomato paste 2 tbsp
Prunes 8
Clove 3
Nutmeg A pinch
Salt 2 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Olive oil 3 tbsp
Potato 4
All-purpose flour 150g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut slits in the beef and insert strips of bacon and garlic. Marinate in wine vinegar overnight.
Pat the meat dry, season with salt and pepper, and brown all over in olive oil.
Add the chopped onion, carrot, and celery and sauté, then add the tomato paste, red wine, prunes, cloves, nutmeg, and 300ml water, cover, and simmer on low for 3½ hours.
Remove the meat and blend the sauce until smooth.
Boil and mash the potatoes, mix with flour and salt to make gnocchi, and boil them.
Slice the meat, pour over the sauce, and serve with the gnocchi.

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