Beef Curry (Malay Style)

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ kg beef
• 125 ml cooking oil
• 5 big onions diced
• 12 cloves of garlic
• 2 aniseeds/ star anise
• 2.5 cm of cinnamon
• 4 cardamons
• 4 springs of curry leaves
• 70 g of curry powder mixed with 125 ml of water as paste
• 1 litre of mild coconut milk
• 500 ml of concentrated coconut milk
• 3 potatoes diced
• salt

Preparation Method:

• Cut and slice the beef into small pieces
• Heat- up cooking oil
• fry with small fire onions, garlics and all the spices until brownish.
• Put in the curry leaves and curry paste and cook with small fire until aromatic.
• Pour in some mild coconut milk if the mixture become too dry and sticky.
• Put in the beef and cook until the mixture is seems nearly dry
• pour in the rest of the mild coconut milk and cook until sizzle. close the lid and let the beef cook and become tender (approx 1/2 hour).
• Put in potatoes and let it cook till it soft
• Finally, put in salt and concentrated coconut milk and stir well. Wait till the curry sizzle and ready to be served