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Chilean Estofado Beef Stew

July 6, 2018 by Pilar Hernandez 4 Comments

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Chilean Estofado Beef StewThis Chilean Estofado Beef Stew is another traditional dish made on the stove in Chile. It’s one of the meals that I loved as a girl; my favorite part was mashing the potatoes and carrots to create a puree with the sauce. Delicious.

In my family, it’s traditionally cooked with beef chunks, but sometimes my grandmother used pork. I have never eaten it with chicken, but you can certainly use it, or lamb. It is a very comforting dish in winter, but we eat it all year.

It can be done with fresh tomatoes along with tomato sauce, but do not omit the tomato sauce because it provides a lot of flavor to the sauce because they used ripe tomatoes, which have more flavor than winter or spring tomatoes.

You can replace the 1/2 cup of water with white wine if desired.

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Chilean Estofado Beef Stew

  • Author: Pilar Hernandez
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 40 minutes
  • Yield: 6 1x
  • Category: Beef
  • Method: Stove cooked
  • Cuisine: Chilean
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Chilean comfort food at it best. Simple and delicious.


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Ingredients

  • 1 onion, chopped in half moon
  • 2 carrots, peeled and sliced
  • 2 pounds of red potatoes, peeled and cut into sticks
  • 1 1/2 pound of beef cubed
  • 1/4 teaspoon cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1/2 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch
  • 1 can (227 grams) of tomato sauce (8 oz.)
  • 1 1/2 cup boiling water
  • oil, salt

Instructions

  1. In a heavy-bottomed pot, heat two tablespoons oil over high heat. Add the chopped onion and cook while stirring for 5 minutes. Push the onion to one side.
  2. Place the cubed meat in the same pot and fry 3 minutes per side, until seared.
  3. Stir everything and add the salt, cumin, oregano, and paprika.
  4. Dissolve cornstarch in 1 tablespoon cold water in a small cup.
  5. Add the potatoes, carrots, tomato sauce, the dissolved cornstarch and hot water to the pot. Stir and distribute well. Cover, reduce heat to medium-low and cook covered for 30 minutes. Stir occasionally.
  6. Test, adjust the salt. Serve hot.

Keywords: chilean beef stew, chilean cuisine

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  1. Leticia C. S. says

    April 1, 2019 at 9:32 am

    Mm! Easy and delicious

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    • Pilar Hernandez says

      April 2, 2019 at 8:02 am

      Yes, very. Cheers.

      Reply
  2. Carlos says

    November 1, 2019 at 8:04 pm

    Good Stew, easy recipe to prepare it. Thank you

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    • Pilar Hernandez says

      November 2, 2019 at 1:56 pm

      Wonderful. Thanks for coming back to leave a comment.

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