How to Prepare Perfect Ropa Vieja (Cuban Style Stewed Shredded Beef)

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, ropa vieja (cuban style stewed shredded beef). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook ropa vieja (cuban style stewed shredded beef) using 25 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Ropa Vieja (Cuban Style Stewed Shredded Beef):

1. Get For efficiency, make sure to put the beef on the stove to boil before you start your knifework
2. Take To boil the beef:
3. Prepare chuck roast cut into roughly 8 equal pieces (you can also use skirt or flank)
4. Get medium onion, cut in half
5. Prepare smashed garlic cloves
6. Get carrot, cut in thirds
7. Make ready celery stalk, cut in thirds
8. Make ready water, or enough to cover by about ½ an inch
9. Make ready For the rest:
10. Get oil (olive or vegetable)
11. Make ready a medium onion, cut into ¼” strips vertically
12. Get red bell pepper, halved, cored, and cut into ¼” strips vertically
13. Prepare green bell pepper, cored and cut into ¼” strips vertically
14. Prepare garlic, peeled and rough chopped
15. Make ready green pitted olives, cut into thirds or quarters
16. Get cumin
17. Get oregano
18. Prepare black pepper
19. Make ready bay leaves
20. Make ready tomato paste
21. Prepare (or so) canned tomatoes
22. Get boiling liquid
23. Make ready kosher salt
24. Prepare sugar
25. Get frozen peas (optional)

This is great shredded beef served on tortillas or over rice. Add sour cream, cheese, and fresh cilantro on the side. my grandmother is Cuban and makes Ropa Vieja. When I told her I made it.she tried it and loved it. This recipe just might be as good as hers.

Instructions to make Ropa Vieja (Cuban Style Stewed Shredded Beef):

1. Put the beef, the ½ onion, carrot, celery, and four garlic cloves in a 4 or 5 quart Dutch oven, pour in the water, cover the pot, and place over high heat, until the meat comes to a rolling boil (about 15 to 20 minutes). Then turn the heat down to medium, keeping the pot completely covered, and continue to boil the beef for another 40 to 50 minutes, or until the thickest part of the largest piece of beef is very easily pierced with a fork.
2. While the beef is boiling, do all your knifework and set aside. When the beef is boiled, remove all the pieces from the liquid and cool for at least 20 minutes or while you prepare the base of the stew. Save 2 cups of the liquid in a mixing bowl or other container. You can discard the rest, or save it, like I do, to use as soup or sauce stock.
3. In your Dutch oven, bring 2 Tablespoons oil up to slightly higher than medium heat and saute your onions, peppers, and garlic for 3 or 4 minutes, or until the onions are translucent and begin to wilt.
4. Add in the cumin, oregano, black pepper, and bay leaves and stir to distribute evenly. Then add in tomato paste, canned tomatoes, boiling liquid, 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt, and ½ teaspoon sugar, and stir to completely dissolve the tomato paste into the liquid. At this point, your beef should be ready to shred. Remember the turn the heat off while you shred. :)
5. Loosely shred all the beef (it doesn’t have to be a fine shred, unless you insist on it that way, but it is a little more work. Besides, the simmering will continue to separate the meat fibers a little more.) and put into pot with the stewing liquid. Turn the heat up to medium high and stir to incorporate thoroughly.
6. With the pot covered, bring the Ropa Vieja up to a rolling boil for about 2 minutes (should take 7 to 8 minutes), uncover, stir a couple of times, turn the heat down to medium and simmer, fully covered, for another 15 minutes, stirring a couple of times halfway.
7. Remove the lid and simmer the ropa vieja for another 10 to 12 minutes, stirring a couple of times halfway through to ensure everything is evenly cooked. Taste the sauce and adjust seasoning if needed.
8. Remove from heat and let cool for at least 15 minutes (this will give the flavors time to set and the sauce time to thicken). If you’re adding frozen peas, right after you cut the heat is when you would fold them in. Adding them in at the end helps them retain their texture and color better.
9. Buen provecho! :)

When I told her I made it.she tried it and loved it. This recipe just might be as good as hers. Ropa vieja, a dish famous in Cuba and popular throughout the Latin Caribbean, features thin strands of shredded beef in a rich and flavorful sauce of tomatoes, onions, bell Updating the classic technique for making ropa vieja (Cuban shredded stewed beef) means improved efficiency and flavor. It was the most delicious shredded beef recipe I had ever tasted. Over the years I have tweaked it to my families liking.

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