Tasty Beef Curry Recipe

My pantry suddenly had a whole bunch of spices so I thought it's time to make some curry.

Ingredients (serves 3 people):

2 whole potatoes

1 whole carrot

1&1/2 inch piece of peeled ginger

2 bay leaves

2 brown onions 

5 cloves of garlic

2 400g canned tomatoes

3 tbs cooking oil

2 & 1/2 tsp ground cumin

1 & 1/2 tsp turmeric powder

1 tsp chilli powder (adjust how hot your like it)

2 tsp of sweet paprika

3 & 1/2 tsp coriander powder

2 & 1/2 tsp Garam Masala

4 tbs fresh coriander leaves

3 cups of water

500g casserole beef

Salt to taste

Cracked black pepper to taste

Step 1 - Prepare the ingredients

Trim the fat of the beef, cut it into bite size cubes, and set aside. Finely dice up the onion, ginger, garlic, and set aside. Chop the carrots and the potatoes into bite size chunks and set aside.

Step 2 - Brown the meat

Pour some cooking oil into a large frying pan on medium heat. Once the pan has heated up, place the onions, the garlic and the ginger into it. Stir fry for about 2 minutes. Next add the ground cumin, turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, paprika and stir fry for about 1 minute until the spices become fragrant. Next add the beef cube pieces and stir fry for about 2 minutes until the meat has turned a nice brown colour. Now jump to Step 3.

Step 3 - Prepare the curry sauce

Place the canned tomatoes, bay leaves, and 3 cups of water into the frying pan with the beef. Add the potatoes and the carrot pieces. Bring to boil and reduce the heat to low. Leave the the mixture to simmer for 2 to 3 hours until the mixture has reduced to a thick curry.

Step 4 - Final touches

Once the curry mixture has reduced like in the picture above, try to taste and add salt and cracked black pepper to suit your liking. Now mix in the Garam Masala, cover the pan with a lid and leave to sit on low heat for about 3 minutes to allow for the spice to infuse. Serve with some white rice and garnish with fresh coriander leaves.

After your make this recipe you will never want to make a curry made from run of the mill curry powder. This is simply delicious.