Meat Madras Recipes

AUTHENTIC CHICKEN MADRAS

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large nonstick pan over medium heat. Add cloves and cardamom pods and wait until they sizzle, about 1 minute. Add onions and fry until dark brown, 7 to 10 minutes. Add chile peppers, ginger, and garlic; cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add ground chile pepper, turmeric, cumin, coriander, and salt. Cook, stirring frequently, until blended in, about 1 minute more.
• Stir chicken and water into the pan with the spice mixture. Cook, while stirring, until water is incorporated, 2 to 3 minutes. Add tomato puree and nutmeg and cover the pan with a lid. Cook until chicken is tender over medium heat, about 20 minutes. When ready to serve, sprinkle with garam masala and cilantro.

AUTHENTIC MADRAS BEEF CURRY

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large 1.2L heat/flameproof casserole dish with a lid and cook the onion, garlic, ginger and spices together for 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the beef and cook for 2-3 minutes until lightly coloured. Add the remaining ingredients except the yogurt and coriander. Bring to the boil, cover and cook for 2-2½ hours on the hob or in a preheated oven at 180°C/160°C Fan, Gas Mark 4 until the beef is tender, stirring occasionally. Season if required. Garnish with the yogurt and coriander and serve the curry with rice, naan bread or poppadoms and a selection on chutneys.

MADRAS CURRY

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a pan and fry the onions, cloves and the cardamom for 5 minutes.
• Add the green chilies, dried chilies, ginger, and garlic cook for 3 minutes.
• Mix the curry powder with a little oil to form a paste and add to the pan; cook for 3 minutes.
• Add the meat and cook for 5 minutes.
• Add the coriander, cumin, salt and stock' cover and simmer till meat is tender.
• Serve with pomegranate rice.
• Boil the rice, seed a pomegranate and stir the seeds into the rice.

CHICKEN MADRAS

Steps:

• Blitz 1 quartered onion, 2 garlic cloves, a thumb-sized chunk of ginger and ½ red chilli together in a food processor until it becomes a coarse paste.
• Heat 1 tbsp vegetable oil in a large saucepan and add the paste, fry for 5 mins, until softened. If it starts to stick to the pan at all, add a splash of water.
• Tip in ½ tsp turmeric, 1 tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp ground coriander and 1-2 tsp hot chilli powder and stir well, cook for a couple of mins to toast them a bit, then add 4 chicken breasts, cut into chunks. Stir and make sure everything is covered in the spice mix.
• Cook until the chicken begins to turn pale, adding a small splash of water if it sticks to the base of the pan at all.
• Pour in 400g can chopped tomatoes, along with a big pinch of salt, cover and cook on a low heat for 30 mins, until the chicken is tender.
• Stir through small pack of coriander and serve with rice, naan and a big dollop of mango chutney.

MEAT MADRAS

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large pot and fry the meat to seal it. Remove the meat from the pot and set aside.
• Fry the onion with the garam masala and chili powder till the onion is golden.
• Put the meat back in the pot with the tomato puree and the cardamoms. Stir and cover the pot with a close fitting lid reduce the heat to low and cook for 30 minutes stirring from time to time. If the curry looks too dry add a little water.
• Add the vegetables, salt, lemon juice, and the water; bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer till the meat and vegetables are tender.
• Serve with plain boiled rice and a dish of dhal.

SLOW COOKED BEEF MADRAS

Steps:

• Heat oil in a pan and add chopped onion; cook slowly until golden.
• Add ginger, garlic , chilli and all the spices and fry for 1 minute.
• Add chopped tomatoes, tomato puree, coconut milk and 2 tbsn coriander and stir together for a minute.
• Add beef, stir and transfer everything to a slow cooker.
• Cook on LOW for 6 hours.
• Add sugar, yoghurt and cream (add slightly more or less according to taste and how hot you like your madras)
• Serve with the remaining coriander sprinkled on top.
• Taste even better if made the day before!
• Serve with basmati rice and naan.

LAMB, PORK OR BEEF MADRAS

Steps:

• Put the coriander seeds, peppercorns, fennel seeds, fenugreek seeds, cloves and chillies into a small, cast-iron frying pan and set it over medium heat. Stir the spices over the heat until they are a shade darker and give off a roasted aroma. Transfer to a bowl and leave to cool, then grind in a clean spice grinder or coffee grinder. Pour the oil into a wide, non-stick pan, and set it over medium-high heat.When the oil is hot, add the onions and cook, stirring, until they turn brown at the edges. Add the ginger, garlic and green chillies and stir-fry for 20 seconds. Add the meat and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes, ground roasted spices, salt and coconut milk and bring to the boil. Cover the pan, turn the heat to low and simmer gently for 1 hour or until the meat is tender. Uncover the pan and boil away a lot of the liquid, until a thick sauce clings to the meat. Garnish with finely chopped coriander to serve. If you want to use pork, buy shoulder meat and cook it exactly like lamb. If you prefer beef, use good-quality stewing beef, add a little extra water and then cook it for 1½ hours or until tender.

BEEF MADRAS

Steps:

• heat oil on medium temp in large heavy bottomed pan. fry onion till golden for 3/4 mins.
• then set aside and fry beef on high heat, once meat is browned set aside with onions.
• mix all paste ingredients together in pan and fry on a medium heat for 1 minute.
• then add the beef to the pan and coat.
• add tomato puree/paste and beef stock and bring to boil for 2 mins.
• cover and cook for 1 hour on low heat, stiring occasionaly.
• remove lid for for last 8 mins of cook time to thicken sauce.
• serve with boiled rice and plain yoghurt.