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Simple Spicy Beef Fry

Spicy beef fry
Ratings 5 from 3 votes
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Difficulty Beginner
Time
Prep Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins Total Time: 40 mins
Servings 5
Description

If you love spicy food and if you're looking for a simple yet so delicious beef recipe, I promise you're going to love this Simple Spicy Beef Fry recipe.

Ingredients
    To pressure cook beef
  • 500 g Beef (Chuck)
  • 2 tsp Sri Lankan roasted curry powder (check the description for substitutes)
  • 1 tbsp Sri Lankan roasted chili powder (check the description for substitutes)
  • 3 Cardamoms crushed to open the pod
  • 3 cloves
  • 1 piece of cinnamon
  • 1 small pandan leaf broken into pieces
  • 2 garlic cloves minced
  • 1 small piece of ginger minced (roughly same as garlic by the volume)
  • 3 tbsp chopped onion
  • 2 tsp white vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • To fry
  • 1/2 cup onion rings or slices
  • 1/4 tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tsp chili flakes (adjust to your likings)
  • 3 sprigs of curry leaves
  • 1 tbsp coconut oil
  • salt to your taste
  • 1 small wedge of lime (to your taste)
Instructions
  1. Cut the beef into roughly 1 - 11/2 inch thick pieces.

  2. Add all the ingredients under “To pressure cook beef” to the pressure cooker (read the description for alternative methods) and mix well together.

  3. Close with the lid and pressure cook for 2 whistles (or 20 mins in an instant pot). Let the pot cool down and naturally depressurize. This how it looks like when the beef is cooked. You’d have some liquid from the beef but that’s okay.

  4. Turn up the heat and cook uncovered until most of the water has evaporated. Make sure the bottom is not burning.

  5. Now, heat a large frypan and add about 1 tbsp of coconut oil. Add ¼ tsp of cumin seeds and let them sizzle in the oil. Then add your curry leaves and let them splatter.

  6. Lower the heat and immediately add your cooked beef. If there’s any gravy left add that too to the pan.

  7. On medium-high heat fry the beef pieces until they become nice and brown. Make sure you flip them from time to time so all the pieces get evenly brown on all the sides.

  8. Add the chili flakes, salt to taste, mix well and turn off the heat.

  9. Add your onion rounds or slices and stir with the beef. It’s better when they remain nice and crunchy.

  10. Add some lime juice to your taste and mix well. (optional step)

Keywords: Beef, Beef fry, Kerala beef fry, Spicy fried beef, Beef, Fried beef, Spicy beef, Sri Lankan beef, Sri Lankan beef fry, Simple beef recipe, Beef appetizer
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Roshani Wickramasinghe
Roshani Wickramasinghe
Hungry Lankan

Food blog with recipes from Sri Lanka and around the world