Review of the Malay Beef Stew Recipe
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Hi, Ray here again.
I needed a curry making success after the last few disappointing recipe reviews. I looked through the Curry Focus recipes and there was the obvious winner – the Malay Beef Stew.
It had the ingredients that always give me good results – beef, potato and spices.
And even though it was names a stew, it had all of the looks of a very good curry.
I went out to shop for the ingredients and found everything that I needed easily enough. One item that really surprised me was the cost of the lemon grass – the lemon grass cost almost the same as the beef.
I located all of the ingredients easily enough.
I saw how long it would take to make the curry and moved into the kitchen two hours before the planned start time for dinner.
I peeled the potatoes and cut them up while the saucepan of water was boiling and pretty quickly the potatoes were parboiled.
As is usual with the Curry Focus recipes, the recipe was very straightforward and easy to follow.
The dinner guests arrived just as I was adding the potatoes to the curry and soon the rice was cooking as well.
I quickly heated up a few poppadoms (bought from a store, not made by myself) and served the Malay Beef Stew on a bed of basmati rice.
This is a great curry. The beef was really and tender and the curry had a delicious taste. It’s really hard to beat the taste of a good beef and potato curry.
All of the diners agreed and the curry received an excellent rating of 8.5 out of 10 with a spice/heat rating of hot.
You should really try this recipe if you like a spicy beef curry – it’s easy to make and has a great taste.