Massaman Beef Curry Recipe is an easy and delicious recipe for any night of the week. With tender bites of steak, perfectly cooked potatoes, and a rich and creamy peanut butter and red curry based sauce, this dinner will quickly become a family favorite!
This Massaman Beef Curry Recipe is about to be your new best friend. Its fragrant, flavorful yet mild, definitely delicious, and easy to make. This is actually a Thai dish that is heavily influenced by Middle Eastern and South African cuisines.
What I love most about it, though, is that this dish doesn’t require a gigantic ingredient list like most thai/middle eastern dishes. Its simple, but it won’t disappoint. And it only takes 30 minutes to make!
What is one thing that everyone needs, no matter their age? A good friend. And once you stop going out to recess and living in dorm rooms, it gets kind of tricky to make them. Pretty sure it comes off as kind of really creepy when you go up to people at the grocery store and say “Do you want to be my friend?”. Equally weird when you try and strike up a conversation in a public restroom (what, its totally happened!) Let’s face it, being an adult and making new friends is just plain tough. So when you become friend with a rare gem of a person, you gotta treasure it. Especially when that person knows you’ve had a rough day and just shows up at your house with the most delicious dinner ever.
Friend. For. Life.
Just like this beef curry recipe, which might be my new bff! Sorry, Chicken Tikka Masala, but you’ve totally been kicked to the curb.
Seriously, this mbassaman beef curry recipe is that good.
The combination of crunchy peanut butter, coconut milk and cinnamon is just so dang lovely. Plus add the cilantro, lime juice, and all the other ingredients and its like a party in your mouth. We are totally in love here.
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Masaman Beef Curry
Yield: 4-5 Servings
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Masaman Beef Curry is an easy and delicious recipe for any night of teh week. With tender bites of steak, perfectly cooked potatoes, and a rich and creamy peanut butter and red curry based sauce, this dinner will quickly become a family favorite!
Ingredients
- 1 TBSP EVOO
- 1 lb flank steak, trimmed and cut into bite size pieces
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 150 ml can coconut milk
- 1/4 cup all natural chunky peanut butter
- 2 TBSP soy sauce
- 2 tsp fish sauce
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 large potato, chopped
- 1 tsp red curry paste
- the juice of 1 lime
- 1/2 cup unsalted roasted peanuts
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro.
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet and the oil over medium-high heat.
- When the pan is hot, brown the meat, stirring occasionally, for 4 minutes.
- Add the onion and garlic to the pan and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is semi-translucent, about 5 minutes.
- Reduce the heat in the pan to medium.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the coconut milk, peanut butter, soy sauce, fish sauce, pepper and cinnamon.
- Add the sauce mixture to the pan, along with the chopped potato, and cook, stirring frequently, until the potato is soft, about 10 minutes.
- Add the red curry paste (if you want more heat you can continue adding 1 tsp at a time until you reach the desired spiciness).
- Remove from the heat of the stove and stir in the juice of 1 lime.
- Top with a generous sprinkling of cilantro and roasted, unsalted peanuts.
- Serve with cooked Jasmine Rice and/or Nann!
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving:Calories: 613 Total Fat: 38g Saturated Fat: 14g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 20g Cholesterol: 90mg Sodium: 861mg Carbohydrates: 29g Fiber: 5g Sugar: 5g Protein: 44g
9 Comments
Barely Vegan
November 14, 2015 at 10:36 PMThis is my first time visiting your website and the first post I see is Masala Beef Curry?!?! Ummmm….I'll be your friend!! Masala and Curry are two of my greatest loves. I make some type of curry almost every single week and I have a ton of different masala seasonings in my spice cabinet. This dish looks fantastic!! Awesome recipe.
Julie L
November 16, 2015 at 12:33 PMWhat a beautiful website you have!! And this dish looks AMAZING!!! Indian food happens to be my favorite so I may have to try this out! I can't wait to keep checking out your blog for more recipes xo
Unknown
December 11, 2015 at 5:24 AMI am totally curry-obsesed, so I definitely need to try this! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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Liz @ I Heart Vegetables
February 8, 2017 at 3:11 AMI’ve been getting into curries lately, especially when the weather is cold! So much flavor! I love the idea of peanuts on top!
Jacqui Bellefontaine
February 8, 2017 at 10:16 PMThis looks really tasty. I havent made a masaman curry in ages . I think I shall have to change that soon
Megan @ MegUnprocessed
February 8, 2017 at 11:19 PMThis is great! Everyone needs a great recipe that is quick and easy!
Abra's Kitchen
February 8, 2017 at 11:29 PMI currently have every ingredient except the beef, and am seriously considering trying it with mushrooms! I’ll let you know how it goes 🙂
Shannon @ Pass Me Some Tasty
February 10, 2017 at 9:50 PMLove this dish!
Teri
February 13, 2017 at 2:15 AMThis recipe makes me wanna step outside of my comfort zone. This looks great!