Name: Massaman Beef Curry
Total time: 150 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 kg beef chuck; 2 tbsp oil; 4 tbsp massaman curry paste; 800 ml coconut milk; 300 ml beef stock; 500 g potatoes; 1 onion; 60 g roasted peanuts; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 2 tbsp palm or brown sugar; 2 tbsp tamarind paste; 3 cardamom pods; 1 cinnamon stick

Massaman Beef Curry

Slow-braised beef with potato, peanut, and warm spice.

Prep

15 min

Cook

135 min

Total

150 min

Active

25 min

Serves

Difficulty

Involved

Cuisine

thai

Servings6

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Steps

Brown the beef in the oil in batches and set aside.
Fry the curry paste in the same pot 2 minutes, then add 200 ml of the coconut milk and cook until the oil splits out.
Return the beef with the remaining coconut milk, stock, cardamom, and cinnamon; simmer covered on low 90 minutes.
Add the potatoes, onion, and peanuts and cook uncovered 30 minutes until the beef is tender.
Balance with the fish sauce, sugar, and tamarind — it should read salty, sweet, and sour at once.

Season only at the end; the sauce concentrates as it reduces.

Food safety Braise until the beef pulls apart, roughly 90°C / 195°F internal.