HOT BEEF FRY

Serves 6  Preparation Time 1 hour

Ingredients
1 kg Beef cut into cubes
2 Medium size potatoes boiled, peeled and cut into wedges
2 Dry Red Chillies
1 small piece cinnamon
3 onions sliced finely
1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
1 and half teaspoon chillie powder (reduce to one teaspoon if desired)
½ teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon pepper powder
2 tablespoons vinegar
Salt to taste

Boil the meat with a little salt and a pinch of turmeric in sufficient water till tender. Strain the soup and keep aside. Heat oil in a pan and sauté the onions, cinnamon and Red chillies till slightly brown. Add the ginger garlic paste, chillie powder, pepper powder, turmeric powder and vinegar and fry for a few minutes. Add the meat and mix well. Add the remaining soup and keep frying till almost dry. Now mix in the Boiled Potato wedges and mix once so that the potatoes are covered with the almost dry gravy.

Serve as a side dish with Pepper Water and Rice or with Bread and Grilled Tomatoes and Salad

This recipe is featured in my book ANGLO-INDIAN CUISINE - A LEGACY OF FLAVOURS FROM THE PAST

BEEF DRY MINCE FRY (POSTHOLE MINCE)

An easy Recipe for a quick and delicious Beef Mince Fry. Also known as Posthole Mince in Anglo-Indian parlance

 

DRY MINCE  FRY  (POSTHOLE MINCE)

Serves 6   Preparation and Cooking Time 45 minutes
½ kg Fine Beef or Mutton Mince / Ground Beef or Mutton / Lamb
2 big onions chopped
½ teaspoon turmeric powder                 
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
1teaspoon chopped ginger                   
2 green chilies chopped finely
1 small bunch coriander leaves           
2 tablespoons oil
Salt to taste                                           
1 teaspoon chillie powder
Heat the oil in a pan and fry the onions till golden brown.
Add the chopped ginger, garlic and green chilies, and sauté for 3 minutes. 
Add the mince, turmeric powder, chillie powder and salt and mix well.
Add the chopped coriander leaves and cook on low heat for about 20 minutes to ½ an hour till the mince is cooked and all the water evaporates.
Keep Simmering on low heat till the mince is almost dry and gives out a nice aroma. 
Serve hot with bread or chapattis

BEEF COUNTRY CAPTAIN

BEEF COUNTRY CAPTAIN - Country Captain is usually prepared with chicken. However it can be prepared with any left over cold meat as well. Hence the name Cold Meat Curry

Serves 6            

Preparation Time 1 hour

Ingredients

1kg beef from the shoulder portion cut into small pieces

8 medium size onions cut finely

1 teaspoon turmeric powder

1 tablespoon garlic paste

2 teaspoons chillie powder

3 tablespoons oil

1 tablespoon butter or ghee

Salt to taste

Boil the beef in sufficient water with a little salt and a pinch of turmeric till tender. Remove from heat and cool. Mix the chillie powder, turmeric powder, salt and garlic paste with the boiled beef pieces and keep aside the soup.

Heat oil in a pan and fry the onions till golden brown. Remove from the pan and keep aside.

Now fry the marinated boiled beef in the same pan adding a tablespoon of butter or ghee and cook till the meat begins to look dry. Mix in the fried onions and simmer on low heat for 5 more minutes. Serve with rice or bread and a few steamed vegetables.

Note: Country Captain is usually prepared with chicken. However it can be prepared with any left over cold meat as well. Hence the name Cold Meat Curry

SPICY ANGLO-INDIAN PORK ROAST AND MUSTARD SAUCE

2kg pork (1 whole piece) from the shoulder portion
2 teaspoons pepper powder
4 dried red chillies broken into bits
3 pieces of cinnamon about ½ inch each
1 teaspoon chilly powder
½ teaspoon turmeric powder
2 or 3 onions sliced 1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon oil
Salt to taste
Wash the pork and rub it well all over with the salt, pepper, chilly powder and turmeric powder. Spread the sliced onions evenly in a fairly large greased baking dish. Lay the chunk of pork on the layer of onions. Sprinkle the broken red chillies and cinnamon over it. Drizzle the oil all over the meat. Shake the dish so that it spreads evenly. Cook in a moderate oven (355 0 ) for about one and a half hours till the meat is soft and brown. (Turn the meat over every half hour so that it browns all over evenly).
Cut the pork into slices and arrange on a platter. Serve with mash potato, steamed vegetables, dinner rolls and Anglo-indian Mustard Sauce.
The Pork Roast could be prepared using a Pressure cooker instead of baking in an oven.

ANGLO-INDIAN MUSTARD SAUCE. 
This sauce can be used as a spread for sandwiches by mixing it with shredded meat, vegetables, mayonnaise etc. It can also be eaten as a side relish with any type of Roasted Meat, Chicken Turkey, Duck etc.
This sauce was an integral sauce on every Anglo-Indian table during the Christmas Season

50 grams ordinary black or brown mustard
10 grams white mustard
1 teaspoon chillie powder
2 teaspoons garlic paste
2 tablespoons sugar
Salt to taste
A small piece of Drumstick Bark
1 cup white vinegar
Grind all the above to a smooth paste. Add a little more vinegar to make the paste into a sauce like consistency. Refrigerate and use when required.
Note: In case the drumstick bark is not available substitute with a stick of cinnamon.

PORK / LAMB TROTTERS IN GRAVY

8-Trotters (mutton or pork) preferably the front ones
1teaspoon ginger paste
1 teaspoon garlic paste
2-teaspoons spice powder
2-large tomatoes chopped
3-teaspoons chillie powder
2-large onions chopped
1-teaspoon coriander powder
3-tablespoons oil
Salt to taste
2 tablespoons coriander leaves chopped.

Heat oil in a pressure cooker and lightly sauté the onions. Add the trotters, spice powder, chillie powder, tomato, coriander powder and salt and mix well. Add sufficient water and pressure cook first on high heat then on low heat for half an hour till the trotters are well cooked. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Serve hot with rice or bread or even dosas or hoppers.

Corned Beef

2 Kgs tender beef from the “Round” Portion
1 kg Table salt or powdered salt
50 grams Saltpeter or Lime salt powdered
1 tablespoon moist brown sugar
Juice of 8 limes
2 teaspoons vinegar

Wash and dry the meat well. Puncture holes all over it. Mix the salt, saltpeter and brown sugar together. Divide this mixture into 4 parts. Rub the Beef all over with one portion of the salt mixture and juice of 2 limes. Turn the beef around so that the salt solution seeps into it well. Repeat this after every 2 hours rubbing it well several times during the day. Next morning remove from the old dish and place it on another dry dish, and rub into it the second portion of the prepared salt. Let it stand for an hour or so, then pour over it the remainder of the 2nd portion of the salt solution. Repeat the rubbing two or three times during the day, turning the beef continually. On the 3rd and 4th day repeat the procedure of placing in a fresh dish and rubbing the beef well with the 3rd and 4th portions of the prepared salt solutions and lime juice. On the 5th day boil or pressure cook the meat with all the residue of the salt solution for at least 1 hour on low heat. Cool and store. Use for sandwiches etc when required.

Colonel Standhurst’s Beef Curry

Serves 6
Preparation Time 45 minutes
Ingredients

½ kg good beef cut into medium pieces
2 big tomatoes pureed
3 cloves, 2 pieces of cinnamon, 2 cardamoms
2 Bay leaves
1 teaspoons ginger paste
1 teaspoon garlic paste
2 onions chopped
1 tablespoon chopped mint leaves
2 teaspoons chilly powder
Salt to taste
3 tablespoons oil
2 potatoes pealed and each cut into 8 pieces

Wash the meat and the potatoes. Heat oil in a pan and add the onions, cloves, cinnamon, cardamoms, bay leaves, ginger paste and garlic paste. Fry for a few minutes. Add the meat and the chilly powder and mix well. Keep frying on low heat for some more time. Now add the tomatoes, salt, mint leaves, potatoes, and mix well. Add sufficient water and cook till the meat is done and the gravy is thick. If cooking in a pressure cooker turn off the heat after 6 whistles. Serve hot with rice.