Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Ultimate Rooster pastitsada

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook Rooster pastitsada using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Rooster pastitsada:

1. 1 rooster, 2 1/2 kg -3 kg in weight
2. 1/2 cup oil 
3. 4 large onions 
4. 8 cloves garlic
5. salt 
6. 15 pepper grains
7. 1 1/2 cups sweet red wine 
8. 12 grains of allspice 
9. 3 cinnamon sticks
10. sugar 
11. 2 tsp spetsieriko (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, bay leaves, allspice, cumin powder) 
12. fresh basil leaves 
13. 2 tbsp tomato paste 
14. 3 ripe tomatoes 
15. 1 kg hollow spaghetti or penne 
16. butter for the pasta 
17. graviera (hard Greek cheese for grating) from Corfu, grated 
18. water

Steps to make to make Rooster pastitsada

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.

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