What is Afelia?

popular on the island of Cypress, Afelia is a Greek pork food marinated in red wine. Afelia, which is called the Cypriot bowl, uses red wine and crushed coriander seeds to taste pork before stewing. Although he uses several ingredients, Afelia has a tasty sweet and acidic taste. This meal is not easy to find outside Greece, but it is easy to make it at home. Salt and pepper are usually the only other spices. Other spices such as cinnamon sticks are sometimes added to the bowl. The meat is always cubic, usually a lean pork arm, but it can also be short ribs. Coriander, which is used in the marinade, at the end of the cooking process and adds Afelia a citrus taste. The seeds should always be grounded immediately before use to maintain its maximum taste. Malta and thickness work best for seed grinding. At least it should be marinated for several hours, but it is best to soak in taste overnight. After marinating the meat is removed from the liquid and foilIt is dry. The liquid is then reserved for later use.

Then the meat is steamed, which means it is first slightly brown and then boiled in the liquid to the tender. To brown pork, pieces are placed in small batch in a pan with olive oil. Once it is barely brownish, each dose is removed and postponed aside. When the pork is browned, it returns to the pan after excess oil is erased.

Reserved marinade, along with more red wine or water, then poured into a pan with meat and cooks. The liquid should only cover the meat. Salt and pepper are also added at this point.

as a liquid Simmers, densify by reduction. Shortly before Afelia finished cooking, more crushed coriander is sprinkled above the pork. When the meat is fine and the liquid is reduced to a strong sauce, the bowl is complete.

Afelia is usually served on the sides. With this dishis commonly served by crunchy bread or potatoes. Pourgouri Pilafi - Pilaf type and using vermicelli, wheat and chicken broth - is also a proposed party.