Beef Curry
Malay/English
Beef curry is a versatile dish to me. I can eat it with rice, bread, roti, noodles and make pizza topping from it. The taste of spices combined with the taste of beef broth makes a good combination in our mouth. The tender and juicy beef always made me go for another serving of rice. And I really like eating potatoes in curry.
Beef curry. This has too much oil in it. You can always reduce the cooking oil when cooking it. Just make sure you use enough oil while sauteing the ingredients. |
There are many types of curries here. But we do not really call them curry. This is the only dish we call curry. The other types of the so called beef curries are kurma, gulai and kerutuk. Gulai kawah is the other beef curry that is said to be almost similar to massaman curry in Thailand. However there are slight difference in ingredients used in them so the taste are a bit different.
So here is my recipe of beef curry, which I learned from my mom, my cousin, and internet. After some try and error I came to this recipe.
Ingredients
- 500 gram beef (boiled until tender)
- 5 cups beef broth obtained from boiling beef
- 7 shallots
- 5 cloves of garlic
- 1 inch ginger
- 1 onion (diced)
- 3 de arbol chili
- 2 tablespoons chili powder or chili paste
- 2 tablespoons beef curry mix powder
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 star anise
- 3 cloves
- 5 cardamoms
- 1/2 tablespoon black pepper powder
- 2 potatoes (cut into 8 chunks)
- Slices of carrot
- 1 green chili
- tamarind juice from 1 1/2 tablespoon tamarind
- 1 to 2 palm sugar
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- Salt to taste
- 1/3 cup of cooking oil
Methods
- Make a fine paste of shallot, garlic, ginger, and de arbol chili.
- Heat cooking oil in a pot.
- Add in cinnamon stick, star anise, cloves and cardamoms and stir for 30 second and add in the shallot paste.
- Stir until a bit golden and aromatic and add in chili powder, black pepper powder and curry mix and stir for 1 minute and add in tamarind juice.
- Stir until the tamarind juice reduced and add in beef. Mix well.
- After 5 minutes add in beef broth and water if necessary.
- Add in also potatoes.
- Cook until potatoes become almost tender.
- Add in slices of carrot and green chili.
- Add in palm sugar, coconut milk and salt.
- Cook for a while until the curry boils. Test taste and turn off the heat.
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