slow cooked beef curry

a great recipe you can prepare in the morning and eat straight away when you get home

Ingredients

• 1. beef cut into large cubes
• 2. beef stock
• 3. 2 tinns of chopped tomatoes strained to remove any excess liquid
• 4. spices – I use garam masala, curry leaves (these have to be removed as they cannot be eaten), mild curry powder, cumin seeds, ground cumin, ground corriander, dried corriander leaves, a couple of cardamon pods (again, these cannot be eaten), a cinamon stick (perhaps obvious but this cannot be eaten either) or you could use ground cinamon and 2 – 3 bayleaves (also cant be eaten).
• 5. creme fraiche
• 6. a large bag of spinich
• 7. tomato puree
• 8. red wine
• 9. 1 onion (roughly chopped)
• 10. 3 – 4 cloves of garlic (roughly chopped)
• 11. curry paste (hot, medium or mild depending on your personal taste)

Instructions

STEP 1:

This curry is done in the slow cooker but you could cook it in a covered casserole dish in the oven for about 2 – 3 hours on a low heat if you dont have a slow cooker. Slow cooking is great as it leaves the meat really tender.

STEP 2:

1. place the beef, onion and garlic in the slow cooker.

STEP 3:

*tip* you can brown the meat in a frying pan first although I never bother as it means there is more washing up!

STEP 4:

2. stir in the spices, tomatoes, a little stock, 2 – 4 tablespoons of tomato puree, 1 – 2 tablespoons of curry paste and a splash of red wine.

STEP 5:

3. Place the lid on the slow cooker and leave on the highest setting to cook. This will take around 2 – 3 hours although you can leave it all day.

STEP 6:

4. Place the spinich in the slowcooker on top of the curry to steam about 20 minutues – half an hour before you want to eat. When it has wilted stir it into the sauce.

STEP 7:

5. Stir in 4 – 5 tablespoons of creme fraiche before serving.

STEP 8:

*Tip* You should add just enough creme fraiche to make the sauce turn orange, to much will be to rich and creamy, to little wont have much impact at all.

STEP 9:

6. Serve with boiled rice or nann bread or you could try my egg fried rice recipe!