Pakistani Stewed Beef with Whole Spices
Pakistani Stewed Beef with Whole Spices
What we have here is some serious Pakistani home cooking at its best. Beef stew meat is stewed with an abundance of whole spices and aromatics. Once the meat is cooked down and the liquid has evaporated, yogurt is stirred in and cooked down even more. The beef is coated in the sauce instead of swimming in a heavy gravy. The stewed beef is garnished with cilantro and slivers of ginger. Eating this amazing dish will make you feel good inside. This dish can substitute lamb or chicken for the protein.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 large onion finely chopped
- 10 dried Kashmiri chilies
- 2 tsp coriander seeds
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 8 whole cloves
- 3 black cardamom
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 10 black peppercorns
- 1 head garlic peeled and minced
- 3 roma tomatoes chopped
- 3 green chilies finely chopped
- 2 lbs beef stew meat
- 2 cups water
- salt to taste
- 1 cup plain yogurt
Garnish
- cilantro chopped
- ginger peeled and julienned
Instructions
- Heat up cooking oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Sauté the onions for 10 minutes.
- Add in all of the whole spices and dried chilies. Sauté for 2-3 minutes until aromatic.
- Add in the tomatoes, garlic, and green chilies. Sauté for 5 minutes until the tomatoes cook down.
- Add in the beef stew meat. Brown for 5 minutes.
- Pour in the water. Bring to a boil. Cover. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 90 minutes.
- Uncover the pot. Turn up the heat to medium high. Cook down until almost all of the liquid has evaporated. Season with salt.
- Stir in the yogurt.
- Cook for up to 10 minutes until the majority of the liquid has cooked down.
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