Name: Massaman Beef curry
Prep time: 11 min
Cook time: 11 min
Total time: 22 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 85g Peanuts; 400ml can Coconut cream; 4 tbsp Massaman curry paste; 600g stewing cut into strips Beef; 450g waxy Potatoes; 1 cut thin wedges Onion; 4 leaves Lime; 1 Cinnamon stick; 1 tbsp Tamarind paste; 1 tbsp palm or soft light Brown sugar; 1 tbsp Fish Sauce; 1 red deseeded and finely sliced, to serve chilli; to serve Jasmine Rice

Massaman Beef curry

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Prep 11 mins

Cook 11 mins

Servings 3

Difficulty Medium

Per serving £2.84

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The recipe

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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...

Instructions

1

Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6, then roast the peanuts on a baking tray for 5 mins until golden brown
2

When cool enough to handle, roughly chop
3

Reduce oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4
4

Heat 2 tbsp coconut cream in a large casserole dish with a lid
5

Add the curry paste and fry for 1 min, then stir in the beef and fry until well coated and sealed
6

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
7

Bring to a simmer, then cover and cook for 2 hrs in the oven until the beef is tender
8

Sprinkle with sliced chilli and the remaining peanuts, then serve straight from the dish with jasmine rice