Massaman Beef curry
Ingredients
Ingredients | Measure |
Peanuts | 85g |
Coconut cream | 400ml can |
Massaman curry paste | 4 tbsp |
Beef | 600g stewing cut into strips |
Potatoes | 450g waxy |
Onion | 1 cut thin wedges |
Lime | 4 leaves |
Cinnamon stick | 1 |
Tamarind paste | 1 tbsp |
Brown sugar | 1 tbsp palm or soft light |
Fish Sauce | 1 tbsp |
chilli | 1 red deseeded and finely sliced, to serve |
Jasmine Rice | to serve |
Instruction
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6, then roast the peanuts on a baking tray for 5 mins until golden brown
- When cool enough to handle, roughly chop
- Reduce oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4
- Heat 2 tbsp coconut cream in a large casserole dish with a lid
- Add the curry paste and fry for 1 min, then stir in the beef and fry until well coated and sealed
- Stir in the rest of the coconut with half a can of water, the potatoes, onion, lime leaves, cinnamon, tamarind, sugar, fish sauce and most of the peanuts
- Bring to a simmer, then cover and cook for 2 hrs in the oven until the beef is tender
- Sprinkle with sliced chilli and the remaining peanuts, then serve straight from the dish with jasmine rice