ScoobLou

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Hiya

A close mate of mine has just lost his mum to cancer. He is coming over Thursday as I said I would cook my partner and him a lovely curry.

Any suggestions for cooking a beef curry? Medium to strong. I have a Rayburn and at home all day Thursday so can really slow cook the meat.

Any help/recipes?

Thanks all.

Jaybird-UK

How nice of you, it would have been much easier to phone one in but Im sure a home cooked one will mean a lot to him.

Cant help with a recipe, but good luck!

ritchie21

I have a good recipe for a Beef Magalorean-you can make it as hot as you like depending on how many red chillies you put in. I'll dig the recipe out tomorrow and stick it on if you like.

Nice thing you're doing there!

ScoobLou

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Much easier for me yes but this night will be about him and I love cooking so doesn't put me out one bit.

ScoobLou

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Ritchie that would be very kind, thank you and much appreciated.

daddyscoob

Try a web site - the curry house - you might need to register but it's full of good recipes for starters and curries and good luck....

gallois

for my super cheap and easy curry i use one carton of asda pasata, 2 desert spoons of pataks korma curry paste and add you cooked meat, add you fav chilli for heat, tabasco sauce is easiest, but go easy,

for my deluxe curry, marinade your meat for a day in the fridge in natural yogurt and your mix of spices (i use paprika) the yoghurt permeates and tenderises the meat, the paprika gives the meat a tikka-like red colour, you can use turmeric if you want a yellow colour.

the curry sauce is the base sauce for ALL currys, it is what makes all the difference, and is a pain, but well worth it. Fresh onion, ginger and garlic is needed for the basic sauce, make as much as you need, you can freeze it.

enough for 8 portions
900g of cooking onions
50g of green ginger (normal if you cant get green)
50g of garlic
1 litre of water
1 tsp salt
225g tomatos (tinned, although i prefer pasata)
8 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp tomato puree
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp paprika.

You need a decent blender to make this properly,

1.peel, rinse, chop the onions garlic and ginger.
2. put the garlic & ginger and 300ml of the water in a blender and blend until totally smooth.
3.put the chopped onions, blended garlic & ginger, salt and rest of the water into a large pan. bring to boil, turn down and simmer for around 40mins with a lid on.
4. after it has cooled, it needs to be blended until TOTALLY smooth, do it in 2 or 3 amounts rather than all in one go, so it doesn't overload the blender and prevent completely smooth blending.
5. after it is completely smooth, put aside about 5 tablespoons of the onion mix (this is used to fry the meat later). add the pasata or if using tinned tomatoes, blend them until completely smooth.
6. Get a clean pan, add the oil, tomato puree, turmeric and paprika, warm the oil, but DO NOT burn the spices add the pasata (or blended tomatoes), bring to the boil, then turn down and simmer for 10mins, then add the onion mix, bring to a simmer, and keep it just simmering for 20-25mins, a froth will rise, and this will need to be skimmed off, so keep simmering and skimming, stir it after a skim to stop it sticking.
et voila, use it straight away, or allow it to cool and keep in the fridge for 3-4days........


to prepare the meat, as said, a natural of greek style yoghurt is a good tenderiser and marinade, so you need your marinaded cubed meat.
6-8 servings
2lb of beef
8tbsp of veg oil
1 tsp turmeric
4 tbsp of the onion mix set aside before the tomato was added.

put the onion mix, oil, turmeric in a pan, medium heat (DO NOT burn the turmeric), stir it until the mix darkens about 5mins, add the meat, stir until all meat is coated, turn heat right down, and simmer for 30mins, keep stirring for even cooking, remove the meat, but leave the sediment. meat can be used straight away, or left to cool and refridgerate for 3-4 days, although baste the meat with the sediment if leaving in the fridge to stop drying out.



now for the curry itself, my fav is just a basic curry, as follows.....

for 6-8 servings

10 tablespoon of veg oil
850ml of the curry sace made earlier
2 tsp salt
1 tsp chilli powder
2lb of meat (beef in your case)
2 tsp garam masala
1 tsp ground cummin
2 pinch of ground fenugreek
2 tablespoon of fresh green coriander

you've done all the hard work, so you are just assembling the sauce and meat and spices, so

heat the oil in a large deep pan, then add the sauce, bring to the boil, keep on a high heat, then add the salt, chilli powder (for more heat add more chill)i.and the cooked meat, mix well and cook for 5mins, turn down heat and simmer, add the garam masala, ground cummin, and dried funugreek, simmer for about 6-7mins, skim off any excess oil, sprinkle on the coriander just before serving. job done. for more heat add more chilli.

btw you can super-slow cook a decent cut of diced beef and just add it to the final sauce, although i find marinaded meat a lot nicer.

gallois

btw, i know there's an absurd amount of oil, but it is necessary to combine the flavours, a lot of it is skimmed back off during cooking though

scoobyschef

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from all the currys ive made in my years this sounds a great recipe, all i would add, as is test the meat after the 30 minutes if its not cooked to you satisfaction then add 1/2 a cup of water and cook until nice and tender

nice recipe chef

jim

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/la...hbasmati_84339

I found this one on BBC, have cooked it for two dinner parties and people raved about it. I don't normally enjoy my own cooking but I am yet to have a curry since that I have enjoyed more.

Takes a while to make though!

Chop

AndyC_772

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Chilli, and several curries, courtesy of SN's own photography forum of all places:

https://www.scoobynet.com/photograph...rs-chille.html

SJ_Skyline

Gallois - That looks like you've adapted it from "The Curry Secret"

Bubba po

Gallois - that is pretty much how I would make it.

gallois

indeed, best recipes ever, very hard to find a copy of it now though.

Leslie

Good for you. I am no expert so can't give a recipe, but I am sure it will turn out well.

Les

ScoobyWon't

It can't be that hard - it's on amazon for under £4.

ritchie21

Magalorean Tomato and Beef Curry

Ingredients:
500g/1lb 2oz beef;
1 onion, peeled and chopped;
1 tsp peeled and grated ginger;
4 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed;
400g tin chopped tomatoes;
large handful of freshly chopped coriander leaves;
2 fresh red chillies, sliced;
1/4 tsp turmeric;
2tsp garam masala;
2tsp ground cumin;
4tbsp coconut milk;
1tbsp tomato puree;
salt and freshly ground pepper.

Method:

Place all of the ingredients in a non-stick saucepan together with 350ml/12 fl oz water. Put on high heat and bring to boil. Cover tightly and reduce heat. Simmer gently for approx 1 1/2 hours or until meat is tender.

Uncover the pan and cook on high heat for approx 6 mind and then serve as desired!

If you want it hotter, add a couple more chillies!!

Chip

I dont generally cook curries myself but well done for being so thoughtful.

Chip

ScoobLou

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Hi all

Just an update really.

Well Rayburn went wrong and had to be switched off and then I had to go into work Thursday so I didn't have much time. In the end I did Ritchie's receipe which went down a storm.

He really has not had it good as he only lost his dad just over a year ago so really appreciated an evening of good food and laughter.

Thank you everyone for the ideas. To get some routine back into my mates life he will be coming round every Thursday so will be cooking loads more and will try the receipes above.

daddyscoob

Nice one.......