Massaman Beef curry
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
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.