Greek Inspired Beef With Feta Cheese And Vegetables

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• marinade
• 1/3 cup lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons fresh ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons oregano
• 1 teaspoon basil
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 2 lbs cubed stewing beef
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 red onion, sliced
• salt
• 1 green pepper, sliced
• 1 red pepper, sliced
• 1 cucumber, sliced thickly & slightly diagonally
• 1 large tomato, sliced in large cubes
• black olives (optional)
• feta cheese (optional)

Recipe

• 1 combine the ingredients for the marinade (lemon juice, black pepper, salt, oregano, basil, garlic. the recipe gave me trouble in posting, sorry) in a plastic zipper lock bag.
• 2 a large"freezer" quality bag is best.
• 3 add beef to bag, remove as much air as possible.
• 4 knead the beef between your fingers to encourage tenderness and to jump start the marinading process.
• 5 refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight.
• 6 remove beef from marinade, but don't drain it.
• 7 heat olive oil in frying pan and cook beef thouroughly.
• 8 remove beef from pan, set aside.
• 9 use remaining oil to sauté onion.
• 10 add salt to separate layers slightly.
• 11 add peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes.
• 12 re-introduce beef.
• 13 cook until tomatoes get tender.
• 14 this won't take very long.
• 15 serve over rice and garnish with feta cheese and black olives if desired.