Hi, Ray here again.
A lot of the Curry Focus Curry recipes are from what is loosely called “the Indian subcontinent” – from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. I decided to test a recipe from somewhere else this week. There are yummy curry recipes from around the globe on the Curry Focus website, including the reviewed Indonesian Dry Beef Curry and Jamaican Chicken Curry recipe. In the end, I selected the Burma Meatball Curry recipe to try.
I couldn’t find any rice flour and used ordinary flour instead. I’m not sure how much difference it could make in the final analysis – I suspect, not much.
As usual, I already had most of the ingredients in the house and needed to buy the lemongrass and the ground beef.
I quickly did the ingredient preparation, not that this recipe needs much preparation.
Everything went well until I had to roll the meatballs. The meatball mixture was not firm enough. Maybe I added too much water when I was making the onion paste. I decided to add more flour seeing that this is a tried and trusted way to make food more firm. In the end, I had to add an extra 4 tablespoons of flour to firm up the mixture enough.
I quickly made the meatballs and did the frying. I had to cook the meatballs in 2 batches because there was way too many for my frying pan.
The bottom of the frying pan became quite coated with the meatball mixture and frying the lemon grass and crushed chilli was a bit more like scraping the ingredients off the bottom of the pan and moving them around a bit before having to scrape again. But the ingredients didn’t burn so all turned out well.
The rest of the recipe was easy to follow and all was OK except that there was very little sauce at the end of the cooking. Maybe I had too much heat under the frying pan because nearly all of the liquid disappeared.
Anyway, I served the Burma Meatball Curry on basmati and the dinner guests seemed to love it. The meatballs were a bit soft but that was not really a problem because they tasted really good. The meatballs were definitely popular with the dinner guests and got a taste rating of 7.5 out of 10 along with a “medium” heat/spice score.
This is a really good curry and I bet even kids would eat the meatballs if you left out the chilli and didn’t tell them that it was a curry.
But this is definitely a curry that grown ups, as well as little people, will like.