Consume / Health

Serves	Hands on Time	Cooking Time
2 as a main	10 minutes	20 minutes

This beef curry is simple and full of flavor. Heavy doses of black pepper and cumin provide spice and earthy tones. Delicious served with our lemon coconut rice recipe.

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This recipe can be made free of dairy by replacing the ghee with vegetable oil.

You’ll need:

Ingredients

• 400g beef brisket or chuck steak, cubed
• ghee or vegetable oil
• 1 red chilli
• salt

For the spice paste

• 1 white onion
• 1 tablespoon coriander seed
• 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of cumin seed
• 1 tablespoon ground black pepper
• thumb size piece of ginger
• 2 cloves of garlic

Instructions

1. Finely chop or gently blend onion, garlic and chilli to form a rough paste.
2. Grind dry spices together using a mortar and pestle, dry spice grinder or coffee grinder.
3. Heat ghee or vegetable oil in a heavy bottomed, lidded pan.
4. Gently fry your onion mix for 3-4 minutes before adding you spices.
5. Gently stir your onion and spice mix until fragrant.
6. Add the cubed beef and gently cook with the lid on for 10 minutes or so, until browned. Add salt to taste and loosen with a splash of water if becoming too thick.
7. Serve the curry on top of steamed rice.