Hot And Spicy Beef Curry

Hot And Spicy Beef Curry

Ingredients

• Beef - 500 g
• Dry red chillies - 2 nos
• Black Pepper - 1 tsp
• Shallots(small onion) - 1 cup
• Ginger garlic paste - 3 tsp
• Onions - 1 no (chopped)
• Cumin seeds (perumjeerakam) - 1 tsp
• Tomatoes - 2 nos
• Green chillies - 3 nos
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• coriander powder-2 tbsp
• garam masala powder- 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Coconut oil - 6 tbsp
• Curry leaves - 2 stem
• Kashmiri red chilly powder - 1 tbsp
• Coriander leaves - 1 stem
• Water - 2 cup

Method

Step 1

Clean the beef and cut into small pieces.

Step 2

Heat 3 tsp coconut oil in a pan add the dry red chillies and fry for 3 minutes.

Step 3

Fry  red chilly powder,turmeric powder,corianderpowder , black pepper,  together and set aside.

Step 4

In the same pan add shallots, ginger garlic paste and stir fry this till they turn brown. Blend all these fried ingredients in a mixer grinder.

Step 5

Pressure cook chopped beef with turmeric powder, salt, water and the blended mixture for 8 minutes.

Step 6

Take a pan add 3 tsp of coconut oil add chopped onion. Stir fry onions it turns brown add green chillies and chopped tomatoes. Saute for 3 minutes. Add cooked beef, curry leaves to this and mix well. add GARAM MASALA.  

Step 7

When the curry turns brown, turn off the flame. Garnish roasted beef with curry leaves, coriander leaves.

Step 8

Roasted beef is ready to be served with porotta or chapathi or rice .

 Raw Jackfruit Thoran or Idichakka Thoran

Ingredients

• Raw Jack fruit or Idichakka - 1 small
• Shallots - 5 nos (crushed)
• Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
• Dry red chilly - 5 nos (crushed)
• Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Curry leaves - 1 string
• Coconut oil - 4 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Water - 1 cup
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Urad dal - 1/4 tsp

Method

Step 1

Cut the Jackfruit in to small pieces and cut the skin, remove the stem, top portion of the Tender Jackfruit if it is too hard and wash the pieces with salt.

Step 2

Pressure cook the cleaned Jackfruit with little water, salt and 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder for 1-2 whistle.

Step 3

Do not overcook the pieces. When it is done remove from fire, drain it and allow it to cool.

Step 4

Shred the cooked Jackfruit piece by a food processor or mixer.

Step 5

Heat coconut oil in a pan add mustard seeds, uraddal, curry leaves and fry for 2 minutes. Add crushed shallots, crushed dry red chilly and fry for 2 minutes.

Step 6

Add the grated coconut and stir fry till all water is dried. Add the shredded Jackfruit and keep stirring. Cover and cook for 3 minutes in low flame and adjust the salt and remove from the fire.

Step 7

The tasty Raw Jackfruit Thoran is ready. Serve with hot boiled rice.

Avial recipe

Ingredients

• Carrot - 50 gm
• Yam (chena) - 100 gm
• Cucumber (vellarika) - 100 gm
• Yard long beans (achinga payar) - 50 gm
• Snake gourd (padavalanga) - 100 gm
• Raw banana - 50 gm
• Drumstick (murungakai) - 100gm
• Green chilly - 50 gm
• Green mango - 2 pieces
• Curry leaves - 2 strings
• Coconut grated - 300gm
• Coconut oil - 200gm
• Cumin seed (jeerakam) - 1 tsp
• Curd - 25 ml
• Ash gourd (Kumbalanga) - 100 gm
• Turmeric powder - 3/4 tsp
• Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Shallots (small onion) - 5 nos
• Water - 1 cup
• Salt to taste

Method

Step 1

Clean and cut all the vegetables lengthwise of 1/2 inch thickness.

Step 2

Take a pan add carrot, chena, cucumber, yard long beans, snake goard, raw banana, drumstick, green mango, ash gourd, turmeric powder, red chilly powder, salt, water and 75 ml of coconut oil. Cook for 7 minutes.

Step 3

Grind coconut, cumin seed, green chillies, shallots in a blender.

Step 4

Add this coconut mixture and curd to the cooked vegetables and cook for 4 minutes.

Step 5

Finally add coconut oil and curry leaves to the vegetable mixture. The delicious kerala avial is ready to be served .