BEEF STEW – Anglo Indian Style

Ingredients:-
• 1 kg Beef cubed
• 1 litre beef stock
• 3 tbsps vegetable /canola /sunflower cooking oil
• 2 onions sliced thin
• 2 bay leaves
• 6-8 cloves
• 8-10 peppercorns
• 4-5 cardamom pods split
• 2" cinnamon stick
• 2 tbsps white flour
• 2tbsps light soy sauce
• 1 cup cubed carrot
• 1 cup shelled green peas
• 3 large potatoes cut into 4 pieces each
• 1 cup green beans cut into 1" pieces
• 1 cup cauliflower florets
• 1/2 cup pearl onions
• 2 green chillies slit
• Salt to taste

• PREPARATION:


• Heat the cooking oil in the pressure cooker. Add all the whole spices and fry till slightly darker.
• Add the onions and fry till golden brown.
• Add the flour and brown.
• Add the soy sauce, and stir well.
• Add the meat and brown.
• Add the stock, 2 cups of water and the harder vegetables like potato, and carrots and cover the pressure cooker. Cook on a high flame till you hear the whistle blow once.
• Turn the flame off and release the pressure from the cooker. Open and add the remaining vegetables. Season and close the pressure cooker and cook on high flame till you hear one whistle. Simmer and cook till one more whistle.
• Release the pressure and serve hot with plain boiled rice.

Spicy Mince Meat Ball Curry

Ingredients:-

750 grms meat
3 green chillies
2 medium sized onions
2 slices bread
finely chopped coriander leaves
2 small eggs.
1 teaspoon saffron
1 teaspoon chillie powder
Ginger & Garlick paste
1 large tomato

Method:-

First place the cleaned and chopped meat, green chillies, onions, bread and coriander leaves in a food processer and gently grind for a few minutes till fine. Next shape the meat into balls.

Then heat a wok and put about half a cup of cooking oil. Next add a chopped onion and spices (ginger, garlick, chillie powder and saffron) and stir till gravy granules form.

Then place the meat balls into the gravy along with chopped tomato and add water to cover the meat balls.

Do not allow gravy to dry up. When water comes down and gravy thick remove and serve with cooked rice.