By now you all might have noticed that I love curry, vegetable, chicken, seafood and beef curry dishes. The wonderful thing about curry dishes is that, besides the spices, there are really no rules or restrictions on what ingredients make up your curry dish. This particular one is pretty similar to the other curry recipes I have posted before, there are some slight variations, like this time I used red curry paste instead of green and I also added snow peas. Other than that the prepping is pretty much the same and all of the other ingredients as well.
Instead of making Jazmine or Basmati rice to accompany the curry, I made cuscus, just trying something new. It turned out to be pretty good.
So the ingredients again are:
1 to 2 lbs of Lean strips of beef
2 cans of sliced water chestnuts
2 cans of bamboo shoots
2 8oz cans of coconut MILK (not to be confused with coconut CREAM)
1 medium size red onion or whatever type of onion you like.
3 to 4 cloves of garlic finely chopped
1 medium size red or green bell pepper ( this time i used thinly sliced Cubanel Peppers)
1/2 cup of sliced green onions
2 Tbsp of fish sauce
1/4 cup of soy sauce
1, 8 oz can of sweet peas
2 cups of snow peas
Salt and pepper to your taste
The cooking instructions are the same as the Chicken Curry recipe so I'm just going to repost those.
Instructions
Slice the beef in about 1 1/2" strip or cube them, your choice. Sprinkle curry powder generously all over the beef strips, add salt and pepper, rub the curry powder vigorously on the beef to ensure coverage of all the pieces, and a 1/4 cup of rice vinegar. You can do this the night before but if that is not possible try to at least marinate it between 30 minutes to 1 hour. Heat some peanut oil or vegetable oil in a wok or large pan. Add and stir fry until fully cooked.
Add the garlic onion, green onion, bamboo, water chestnuts and snow peas.If you choose to also use canned sweet peas, add those at the very end before you serve. Because they come already pre-cooked, if you add them at the beginning with all the other veggies, the peas will most likely disintegrate. Mix thoroughly and lower the heat to medium and cover and cook for 10 minutes. In a separate container pour the coconut milk and a the amount of your choice of spicy curry paste, green, red or whatever type of curry paste you like. You can omit the spicy curry paste if you wish but i always add even a very small amount. You can used mild curry paste or powder. Add the fish sauce to this mix, as well as the soy sauce and stir until all the ingredients are well mix. By this time the beef should be well cooked and the vegetables also.
Slowly pour the coconut milk into the wok or large pan containing the beef, add the red bell pepper and then lower the heat to medium-low and simmer for about 30 minutes. Add the sweet peas, stir and serve.
The cuscus I like is the 5 minute cuscus that comes in a small box. You can buy the plain cuscus or it also comes in flavors like roasted garlic and other flavors. Just follow the instructions on the box. It usually takes about 5 minutes to make.
Enjoy!
