Giouvetsi recipe (Greek Beef stew with Orzo pasta)

Jump to RecipeGiouvetsi is the perfect dish for a traditional, hearty, Sunday family dinner! Giouvetsi, or youvetsi is a centuries old dish that was traditionally served as a one-pot meal and in, the olden days, it would have been baked in a home’s wood burning oven.This is my favourite dinner for a cold winter’s day together, of course, with my delicious beef stifado, moussaka and pastitsio!In the older days, there were many instances where a home did not have an oven. However, each village had at least one bakery supplying bread to the villagers. So it was quite common for a family to lug the day’s dish over to the bakery and have dish cooked in the baker’s oven. And that is how giouvetsi was born!So go ahead and discover how to make this delicious giouvetsi to perfection with my recipe and tips and tricks below!What is Giouvetsi?Giouvetsi is also sometimes called youvetsi (or even yiouvetsi or yuvetsi, there’s lots of spellings for it!) and is a traditional Greek meat and pasta cass...