Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, massaman beef curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Delicious Rich, fall-apart slow-cooked beef massaman curry in a spicy homemade sauce with new potatoes. This Massaman Curry is perfect comfort food! Make extra and freeze some for a busy weeknight.
Massaman Beef Curry is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Massaman Beef Curry is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook massaman beef curry using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Massaman Beef Curry:
- Make ready 1 pack (250 g) cubed chuck beef or stewing beef cut into long strips
- Prepare 3 tablespoons Massaman curry paste
- Get 4-5 shallots, peeled
- Take 1 onion chopped in big chunks
- Take 1 can coconut milk
- Prepare 2-3 tbsp fish sauce
- Make ready 2-3 grated palm sugar (or brown sugar)
- Take 2 tbsp tamarind
- Get 1 medium-sized potato, peeled and cut into chunks
- Prepare 4-5 tablespoons unsalted roasted peanuts (can use cashew nut if prefer)
- Take 2 star anise
The sauce is rich in flavour and the beef falls apart beautifully. Beef - Massaman is supposed to be made with large pieces of meat, rather than small bite size pieces, so the meat needs to be slow cooked to become tender and absorbs the flavour of the braising liquid. Can be substituted with brisket but make sure you trim off the thick layer of fat, otherwise the sauce ends up too greasy. Gravy beef is also suitable, as long as you can find large pieces.
Steps to make Massaman Beef Curry:
- In a big saucepan, add about 2-3 tbsp coconut milk (use the thick part) and wait until coconut milk start bubbling. Add beef in and stir for 2-3 min.
- Add star anise and Massaman curry in and mix in well.
- Add onion, in and leave it to cook for about 30 min then add potato and the rest of your coconut milk in.
- Seasoning with fishsauce, palm sugar, tamarind. Give it a taste it should be sweet, salty and a little sour and nutty. Add some cashew nuts or peanuts and stir well. Leave it to cook for about another 25 min or until potatoes cooked. Add a little bit of water if needed too.
- Perfectly serve with thai jasmine rice.
- For oven braised method: Coat beef in 1 tablespoon of oil, star anise and massaman curry paste, mix well. You can braise your beef in the oven for about an hour. Once your beef in oven for 45 min - an hour put coconut milk in saucepan, then curry paste and mix well then add your beef that have been braised in the oven in the. Add onion, fishsauce, tamarind paste, palm sugar and the rest of coconut milk in. Mix well.
This fragrant massaman beef curry is perfectly suited to a slow cooking - which unlocks the flavour of cinnamon, bay leaves and coconut milk. Plus the convenience of coming home to a delicious dinner, ready to serve. This Thai Massaman Beef Curry recipe is sumptuous and very flavorful. It's a homemade recipe with no need for any store-bought curry paste or powder. The ingredient list may seem long, but the sauce is quite easy to make.
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