Beef Curry (Malaysian Style)

Hello everyone,

Today I am writing beef curry recipe in English as I wish to dedicate this recipe to my international readers. There are many ways and ingredients about preparing it. I am doing it Malaysian style and if you may not know it, Malaysians loved curries especially Malays and Indians.

Here are the ingredients needed :

1/2 kilo of beef brisket or any part(slice it into small and thin pieces)
2 potatoes ( skinned and cut into 4 ~ 6 pieces) depends on how big the potato is
6 table spoon of coconut milk
1  1/2 glass of water
1/2 tblspoon sugar
4 tblspoon cooking oil
1 1/2 tbl spoon roasted coconut (and pounded) **

roasted & pounded coconut

curry paste

1 tea spoon of poppy seed **
5 pcs of candle nuts (crushed) **
1 teaspoon fennel seed (powder)
4 tbl spoon beef curry powder
(pour some water into the curry powder and mix other  items in green writing together to make a curry paste)

1 inch ginger (you may either slice it into fine pieces or crushed it)
5 shallots (slice )
3 garlic (crushed and cut into pieces)
1 sprig of curry leaves **
1 stick of cinnamon
a few pcs of star anise and cloves

Before we start cooking, please do not feel dampen if you can't find the items that I marked with asterisk symbol. You can still make a good curry without it. I know what I am saying cause I do it all the time.

Okay lets start.
1) First heat up your skillet or pot and put some cooking oil in it. When it's hot, dump in the cinnamon, star       anise and cloves. If you can find some curry leaves, then put in as well.

2) Then, throw in all the other ingredients (in blue writing) and stir it with your ladle. Let it be until the onions        turned translucent and the aroma started filling your kitchen.

3) Now, pour in your curry paste together with the beef. Pour in a glass of water first and close the pot with       its lid. Let it simmer for about 45 minutes.

4) Open the lid, and check the beef if its already tender. If it's not then pour in another 1/2 glass of water and
     by now, you may put the cut potatoes in as well as the beef will be tender in about 5~7 minutes time.

5) When the beef is soft and tender, bring in the coconut milk, the roasted coconut, some salt and some
    sugar. (Sugar is to bring out the full taste of the curry).

picture by Ariff Ismail

6) Voila! You've made it. See, it's not as hard as you may think it is. It is best when you have it with this
    Malaysian favourite rice (among others) we called it Nasi Minyak (or Ghee Rice) and some pineapple           salsa to go with it.
    Or you can always have it with some paratha bread or naan. Believe me, it's to die for.

Happy cooking!
Rose
18th.Oct '13