Massaman Beef curry
Ingredients:
- 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
Instructions:
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.