Sunday, April 29

Beef fry

This is a Kerala style, very delicious dish flavored with spices like fennel, cardamom and pepper.


You need:
Beef - 1 kg
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 2 tsp
Onion - 2 nos
Green chillies - 6-8 nos
Ginger(finely chopped) - 1" piece
Garlic pods(chopped) - 8 nos
Tomatoes(chopped) - 2 nos
Cinnamon- 1" piece
Cloves- 5 nos
Cardamom - 5 nos
Fennel - 4 tsp
Black peppercorns - 20 nos

For seasoning:
Onions (chopped) - 2 no
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Coconut (chopped) -1 cup
Curry leaves - 4 sprigs
oil – 3 tbsp.

Method
1) Mix meat and ingredients 2,3,4 and salt.

2) Grind the ingredients 10,11,12,13 to a paste.

3) Cook the beef with the ground paste in a pressure cooker. After the first whistle, bring the heat to medium. Wait for one more whistle. Now remove the cooker from heat and let the pressure release.

4) Heat oil in another pan.

5) Splutter mustard seeds.

6) Add the ginger, garlic, coconut pieces, and chopped onions, green chillies and curry leaves, saute till light brown. Now add the tomatoes and fry more.

7) Add the meat and stir till the gravy is dry and well coated to the beef pieces.