Meat and Spinach Stew

Serves 7-8. Prep 20 min, cook 80 min, total 100 min. The beef can also be replaced with pork, chicken, game, etc.

⏱️ Prep: 20 min🍳 Cook: 80 min

Ingredients

1 kg		beef (can be replaced with pork, chicken, game, etc.)
500 g		spinach (or sorrel)
2-3 връзки		fresh onion
1-2 връзки		fresh garlic
няколко стръка		spearmint, fresh (or a spoon of dried)
2 tbsp	30 ml	tomato puree
1 tbsp	15 ml	red pepper
70-80 ml		olive oil
на вкус		salt
2 tbsp	30 ml	flour (to thicken the sauce)

Put the meat on the stove to come to a boil with 1.5 L of cold water. Then strain, rinse and return it to the broth. Season with salt and boil the meat until tender.
Finely chop the onion and garlic and put them to fry, adding red pepper together with the tomato puree.
Add the broth from the meat (about 800-900 ml) and once it boils, add the cleaned and pressed spinach or sorrel.
Leave on the stove like this for about 10-15 minutes and season with the spearmint. Dissolve the flour in a little water and pour it, stirring, into the stew.
The dish is boiled until it bubbles and is removed from the heat.