Hi, Ray here again.
I had some good friends coming over for dinner this weekend and I hadn’t seen them for a few months. So I needed a curry recipe that would not keep me in the kitchen when too much when they arrived.
I quickly scanned the wide range of Curry Focus recipes and found a recipe for a Quick Beef Curry. Beef usually takes some time to cook and become tender and this recipe was no different. The quick part was the initial preparation and cooking. The final cooking phase hardly needed any attention at all. I would be able to socialize with my friends while the curry was cooking without needing to go into the kitchen very often.
I bought a very lean, beef, steak when I was at the store and that was as much as I needed to buy (except for some beers).
A couple of hours before the scheduled eating time, I cut up the beef into cubes and prepared the onion and garlic. Then I got the cooking underway and was soon at the final cooking phase that needed almost no involvement from me. I placed a bowl of basmati in the microwave all ready to go.
My friends arrived an hour before eating time and we quickly drank a few beers and caught up on the missing months since we had last seen each other. All had to do during this time was go into the kitchen every 10 or 15 minutes and stir the curry.
I started to microwave the rice 15 minutes before the curry would be ready and it wasn’t too long before I served up the Quick Beef Curry to the expectant dinner guests.
I had told my friends that this was a new recipe for me and not to set their hopes too high seeing that this was described as a “Quick Beef Curry” – I have seen recipes for other similarly described curries where the recipes looked very rough and ready.
But this warning was not needed at all because this was a great curry. The beef was nice and tender and the thick sauce was delicious. The curry got a lot of good comments from everyone and received a taste rating of 7/10 with a heat/spice rating of “medium”.
This is one of the easiest curries that I’ve made in a long time and had a great flavor.
I can certainly recommend that you try out this recipe.