Beef Fry – Kerala style recipe

 

Beef fry using coconut cubes is a popular meat dish in Southern and Central kerala including Malabar.

 

Ingredients:

 

Beef – 1kg (chopped in to small pieces)
 

Coconut – 1 Nos
 

Shallots – 20 flakes
 

Chillie Powder – 2 Tbsp
 

Turmeric Powder – ½ Tbsp
 

Coriander Powder – 2 Tbsp
 

Pepper Powder – ¼ Tbsp
Green Chillies – 3 Nos 

Ginger – 2 Nos (1 inch pieces)

Garlic – 10 flakes
 

Cumin seeds – ¼ Tbsp
 

Cardamom – 4 Nos
 

Cloves – 5-6 Nos
 

Cinnamon – 2 sticks (medium)
 

Coconut Oil – 80-100 ml
 

Vinegar – 3-4 Tbsp
 

Curry leaves – 10-15 leaves
 

Salt – As required

 

 

Preparation:

 

1. Wash the beef pieces and put in a pressure cooker, add little water, bit salt. Mix well and put on heat. Cook up to 4-5 whistles and keep aside.

 

2. Cut coconut in to small cubes.

 

3. Grind and make a fine paste of Cinnamon, Cumin seeds, Cloves and Cardamom with Vinegar.

 

4. Chop Ginger, crush Garlic, cut green chillies in length and slice shallots thinly

 

5. Heat a wide mouth open vessel and add Coconut oil.

 

6. Add chopped Ginger and Garlic, 5-6 Curry leaves, sliced shallots, green chillies and fry to brown.

 

7. Add Chillie powder, Turmeric Powder and coriander powder and fry up the mix for 3-4 minutes. Add more heated coconut oil if required, to fry up the mix.

 

8. Add the cooked beef, coconut cubes, pepper powder and Vinegar-Spices paste in to the vessel and mix well. Check salt and add if required. Stir gently now and then while on low flames for 10-20 minutes.

 

9. Check the beef pieces, if cooked well add the rest of curry leaves, mix well and cover with a lid.

 

10. Serve hot with Chapati, Paratha or Rice.

 

Recipe maker: K.R. Saritha (Kozhikode, kerala)