"Ropa Vieja" (Shredded beef- panamanain style)
"Ropa Vieja" (Shredded beef- panamanain style)

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, "ropa vieja" (shredded beef- panamanain style). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

A Filling Beef Meal Ropa Vieja is a main course of shredded and braised beef with plenty of healthy, tasty vegetables, like onions, peppers and olives. Our GOYA® Ropa Vieja recipe is sure to satisfy the hungriest of appetites. This version of ropa vieja is made with beef and accented with olives and capers.

"Ropa Vieja" (Shredded beef- panamanain style) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. "Ropa Vieja" (Shredded beef- panamanain style) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have "ropa vieja" (shredded beef- panamanain style) using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make "Ropa Vieja" (Shredded beef- panamanain style):
  1. Get 1/4 cup cooking wine
  2. Make ready 6 small tomatoes
  3. Take 3 lb beef (brisket or similar - tasty and easy to tear apart or shred)
  4. Take 1 small onion (i prefer to add 1/2 or 1tsp powdered)
  5. Make ready 1 can tomato paste (4oz or 113g)
  6. Prepare 1 each salt n pepper (to taste)
  7. Take 3 clove garlic, minced (or garlic powder)
  8. Take 1 small bell pepper (you can play with the colors, but green is whats usually used for this)
  9. Get 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  10. Take 2 tbsp sugar (or just enough to lower the acid)

Ropa Vieja is made with a large cut of beef slow cooked in a tomato based sauce. The meat is so flavorful and tender and shreds so easily. I had this ropa vieja simmering away in my slow cooker yesterday and it smelled so good I thought I'd go crazy waiting to eat dinner! A hearty beef stew made Cuban-style with shredded flank steak, bell peppers, onions, and a flavorful tomato sauce.

Steps to make "Ropa Vieja" (Shredded beef- panamanain style):
  1. Cook the brisket on boiling water until soft and tender. Seasoned the water with salt, garlic and onion (if using powder), pepper. I usually leave it like 1-2 hours.
  2. Once its cooked, remove it from pan and let it cool. Separate or tear out the meat. Dice tomatoes in small cubes, and bell pepper too.
  3. On a frying pan, add ur vegetable oil and put your tomatoes and bell pepper (if u're using garlic cloves and onion instead of powder u should add them now too). I like to squeeze tomatoes with a fork to get all the juices and flavor.
  4. Add your brisket on the pan and stir with veggies. Add the tomato paste and the cooking wine. Let it boil, add the sugar and taste it in case it needs more salt or seasoning.
  5. Add enough beef broth (water left from cooking ur beef) to the sauce. Cook it until sauce is ready and thickened.
  6. Serve and enjoy!
  7. ** This is our traditional version of a very popular dish in Panama, and other countries like Colombia and Venezuela. I have tried it also with chicken and pork and tastes good too!
  8. This is great served with white rice or rice and lentils with a simple salad, but i prefer it with caramelized ripe plantains for that sweetness touch (great flavor contrasts in ur mouth)
  9. You can also do pita pockets with your leftovers (which i do all the time and will share recipe later); or serve it with corn tortillas (not the mexican style but the ones similar to "arepas" that are fried) for breakfast or as snack.

This dish was originated in the Canary Islands. It is made of slow-cooked shredded beef with peppers and onions in a spicy tomato sauce. 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 peppers, and spices. This recipe updates the classic technique for improved efficiency and flavor. But - the beef in Ropa Vieja is traditionally shredded with the grain so it forms those distinctive long, torn shreds.

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