Anglo-Indian Beef Stew
Source of Recipe
Brenda-Lee Olson
Recipe Introduction
By Petrina Verma Sarkar
List of Ingredients
* 1 kg stew beef cubed
* 1 litre beef stock (check gf status)
* 3 tbsps vegetable/canola/sunflower cooking oil
* 2 onions sliced thin
* 2 bay leaves
* 2 star anise
* 6-8 cloves
* 8-10 peppercorns
* 4-5 cardamom pods split
* 2" cinnamon stick
* 2 tbsps ginger paste
* 3 tbsps garlic paste
* 2 tbsps rice flour
* 1/2 cup light soy sauce (make sure it's gf)
* 1/2 cup tomato kethup
* 1 tbsp red chilli sauce
* 2 large or 3 medium sized tomatoes chopped fine
* 1 cup cubed carrot
* 1 cup shelled green peas
* 3 large potatoes cut into 4 pieces each
* 1 cup green beans cut into 1" pieces
* 1 cup cauliflower florets
* 1/2 cup radish cubed
* 1/2 cup pearl onions
* 2 green chillies slit
* Salt to taste
Recipe
* Heat the cooking oil in the pressure cooker. Add all the whole
spices and fry till slightly darker.
* Add the onions and fry till golden brown.
* Add the ginger and garlic pastes and and green chillies and fry
for a minute.
* Add the flour and brown.
* Add the soy sauce, ketchup, red chilli sauce, tomatoes and stir
well. Cook till the tomatoes are slightly pulpy.
* Add the meat and brown.
* Add the stock, 2 cups of water and the harder vegetables like
potato, radish and carrots and cover the pressure cooker. Cook on a
high flame till you hear the whistle blow once.
* Turn the flame off and release the pressure from the cooker.
Open and add the remaining vegetables. Season and close the pressure
cooker and cook on high flame till you hear one whistle. Simmer and
cook till one more whistle.
* Release the pressure and serve hot with plain boiled rice or rice noodles.
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