Beef Roast (Christmas Special Recipe)

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Beef Roast is a special dry recipe cooked in Malabar served with rice, pathiri or appam. There is different ways to prepare this recipe. This is my style of Beef Roast and I am sure my friends and family will love. This is specially cooked during Christmas but in my home this dish is prepared once in a week default. My hubby loves this dish and can have this three to four times in a day :) :)

Ingredients:

Beef - ½ kg (cut to small cube pieces)

Onions - 1 nos (chopped)

Onions - 5 nos (cut to thin slices)

Ginger & Garlic paste - 1 tsp each

Turmeric powder - ½ tsp

Kashmiri red chilli powder - 1 tbsp

Corriender powder - 2 tsp

Meat masala powder - 2 tsp

Vinegar - 2 tbsp

Cumin powder - ½ tsp

Fenugreek powder - ¼ tsp

Curry leaves - 2 strings + 5 strings

Cardamom - 4 nos (powdered)

Cloves - 4 nos (powdered)

Cinnamon stick - 2 pieces (powdered)

Star anise - 2 nos (powdered)

Salt - to taste

Water - 2 tbsp

Coconut slivers(thengakottu) - ½ of one coconut

Coconut Oil - 8 to10 tbsp

Preparation:

- Marinate cut and cleaned beef with chopped onion, ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, corriender powder, meat masala, vinegar, cumin powder, fenugreek powder, curry leaves, cardamom powder, clove powder, cinnamon powder, star anise powder, salt, handful of thenga kottu and salt for at least ½ hour.

- Pressure cook the marinated beef masala for at least 7-8 whistles. Once done let the beef cool in the pressure cooker.

- Meanwhile fry the balance thenga kottu in one tsp of oil till brown and keep aside.

- Pour oil in a kadai and fry the sliced onions till golden brown in color. Add the 5 strings of curry leaves to the browned onions and fry for 2 minutes.

- Now add the cooked beef and fry well till beef is brown and roasted well on low to medium flame.

- Garnish with fried thenga kottu and lime slices.

- Serve hot with rice and kachiya moru, pathiri or appam.

Note:

- Spice and salt can be adjusted as per taste.

- I have used about 10 tbsp of oil in this recipe to get the roasted taste.