Curry Beef Stew Served over Steamed Rice

"I was feeling nostalgic the other day and was remembering a curry dish that my Japanese mother would occasionally make. My mother passed away in 2002, and I never got the recipe from her. The other day I started experimenting, and I finally came up with a dish that is close to the one she would make. This dish is similar to a thick beef stew, but has a wonderful curry flavor. My mother's dish had a greener curry. I think she used to get her curry at the oriental store. I used a curry that I had gotten at my local supermarket. I do want to try this again with a curry from the oriental store. You can use more or less curry to suit your taste. This is cooked slowly to make the meat nice and tender."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 40mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
4-6

ingredients

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directions

  • Mix together flour, salt and pepper. coat beef in flour mixture.
  • In a large saucepan or pot, brown the beef cubes and onions in butter.
  • Add the beef stock, curry and bay leaves. Cook on low heat for 30 minutes.
  • Add the potatoes, carrots, and vinegar. Simmer for 45 minutes to 1 hour until all is tender and sauce has thicken to a thick stew consistency.
  • Mix in soy sauce to taste. Serve over steamed rice.

Questions & Replies

  1. What kind of curry powder should I get?
     
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Reviews

  1. Aww that's awesome curry stew. Mahalo nui loa...
     
  2. I'll make this again. My children & husband ate it -- even though they won't touch beef stew. I used chicken bouillon since I didn't have beef and left out the bay leaves since I didn't have any. After tasting it I decided to add 1 Tbsp. brown sugar (to take the bite out of the curry) and 1/4 c. flour to thicken it a bit.
     
  3. Very lovely. Served over some jasmine rice, this was really quite tasty. Not being an aficionado of curries, I used 2 T. of regular curry powder and 1/2 T. of hot yellow curry powder. It just needed a little extra lift with some salt seasoning (but that's personal taste). Easy to make and definitely tasty. Made for ZWT5.
     
  4. Fantastic! I never have beef stock so I used 4 cups (2 cans) of chicken stock and it worked great. I doubled the amount of curry powder & used Rice vinegar instead of regular white vinegar. Yummy! I really like a "sweet" curry, so after the 1st bowl I added some brown sugar. Wow!
     
  5. Flavor was great but I found the flaw while eating. I was so busy fowlling the directions that I didn't even consider the double starch of serving a potato dish over rice. This would be better served over noodles or drop the potatoes and replace with celery.
     
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  1. Fantastic! I never have beef stock so I used 4 cups (2 cans) of chicken stock and it worked great. I doubled the amount of curry powder & used Rice vinegar instead of regular white vinegar. Yummy! I really like a "sweet" curry, so after the 1st bowl I added some brown sugar. Wow!
     

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