Chilly Beef | BFD | Beef Dry Fry Palakkad Style
Kerala-style dry fry where beef is cooked down until all the moisture evaporates and what remains is intensely flavoured, slightly caramelised, and impossibly moreish. Best with parotta or plain rice.
Ingredientsfor 3 servings
- <strong>To Pressure Cook:</strong>
- 200 g Beef sliced into big pieces
- 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- Salt
- <strong>For marination:</strong>
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp Pepper powder
- 1 tsp Chilly — crushed
- 1 tsp Garam masala
- 1 tsp Chilly powder
- 1 tsp Soya Sauce
- 1 tbsp Vinegar
- 1 tsp Kashmiri Chilly powder
- 4 tsp Corn flour
- 1 tsp Garlic — crushed
- 1 tsp Ginger — crushed
- Beef stock To use instead of water
- Salt
- <strong>For frying:</strong>
- Coconut Oil and Vegetable Oil mix
Preparation
Step 1
Pressure cook the beef slices with turmeric, salt and enough water. Keep the beef stock aside.
Step 2
Cut the cooked beef into thin slices.
Step 3
Add turmeric powder, pepper powder, crushed chilly, garam masala, chilly powder, soya sauce, vinegar, salt, kashmiri chilly powder, ginger, garlic and little beef stock to the mixture. Do not add water. Add corn flour little by little and mix it well. Add beef stock only if necessary and do not make it watery. Keep the marinated slices for 10 minutes aside.
Step 4
Heat a pan with enough oil to fry in hot oil the beef.
Step 5
When hot enough, add small batches of beef and fry it. In a few minutes, it will be crispy. If it is fried in small batches, oil won't be absorbed much into the beef. When it is almost done, add curry leaves.
Step 6
Transfer the fried beef slices onto a paper towel spread in a plate to remove excess oil.
Step 7
The Beef fry in hot oil.
Tip
The final handful of curry leaves should go in right at the end, off the heat — they should crackle and crisp in the residual heat.
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