Rooster pastitsada

Name: Rooster pastitsada
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 rooster, 2 1/2 kg -3 kg in weight; 1/2 cup oil; 4 large onions; 8 cloves garlic; salt; 15 pepper grains; 1 1/2 cups sweet red wine; 12 grains of allspice; 3 cinnamon sticks; sugar; 2 tsp spetsieriko (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, bay leaves, allspice, cumin powder); fresh basil leaves; 2 tbsp tomato paste; 3 ripe tomatoes; 1 kg hollow spaghetti or penne; butter for the pasta; graviera (hard Greek cheese for grating) from Corfu, grated; water

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Rooster pastitsada (braised rooster with spaghetti), from the book "Κορφιάτικες συνταγές της καλής και της νόνας" by Mrs Toula Katsarou - Vergeti, from the bookstore "Πλους" publications. "On the 15th of August, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the custom is to serve rooster pastitsada. This is a remnant from the days when sharecroppers worked the land and they had to offer the rooster to their lord".

Recipe by asotiro

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Recipe by asotiro

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Ingredients

1rooster, 2 1/2 kg -3 kg in weight
1/2 cupoil
4large onions
8 clovesgarlic
salt
15pepper grains
1 1/2 cupssweet red wine
12grains of allspice
3cinnamon sticks
sugar
2 tspspetsieriko (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, bay leaves, allspice, cumin powder)
fresh basil leaves
2 tbsptomato paste
3ripe tomatoes
1 kghollow spaghetti or penne
butter for the pasta
graviera (hard Greek cheese for grating) from Corfu, grated
water

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Steps

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.