Sorry for posting this recipe late, but don't be sad any longer if you're eager to learn this recipe. I am sure you'll love it. This is another Thai cuisine and I just know about this dish when my boyfriend and I went to Krung Thai Restaurant. We wanted to try new food so we ordered this as an entrée. We got attracted to the smell of this dish. The taste is also good and has a unique flavor to it. It was mouth-watering with peanut butter sauce, with a little bit tangy which I did not know what it was. So I wanted to remake this dish after doing some research on their restaurant's website (*wink wink). I've try to do my twist to it, and it worked out really well. This is the first time I tried to make it and Huray, I can show you now how to make it also. Now let's begin ......
Ingredients:
* 1 can (14 fl oz) of coconut milk
* 2 tablespoons of Masaman Curry Paste
* 2 small potatoes
* 1/2 of a medium onion
* 1/4 cup of sliced carrots
* 1/2 lb of good quality beef
* 3 teaspoons of fish sauce
* 3 sprigs of basil = around 1/3 cup of basil leaves
* 1/3 cup of peanuts
* 3 tablespoons of smooth peanut butter
* pinch of salt and pepper to taste if needed at the end
* 1 small garlic , minced
* 1/2 cup of water
* 2 teaspoons of sugar
Now let's get cooking:
Step 1: in a medium pot, boil water. Peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes , around 1 and half inch each sides. Cook the potatoes around 12 minutes, or until you slide a chopstick in and there is a small resistance from the potato. Don't over cook it like the way you cook mashed potato, they'll fall into pieces and become mushy as we cook with other ingredients. Drain and put it aside. In another pot, boil 1/3 cup of peanuts with water. It takes about 15 minutes to get the peanuts cook and soften.
Step 2: While cooking the potatoes, cut the half onion into 1inch square piece.
Take about 1/2 of medium carrot, and slide thinly and diagonally.
Slice the meat into thin slices.
** Notes: for the meat, you need to find the line that run through the meat, place that line horizontally to you, use the knife and slice it vertically and perpendicularly to that meat's lines. This technique will help the meat won't be hard to chew. CHIU CHIU CHIU ^^* Marinate the beef with 2 tspoon of fish sauce, tiny bit of salt and pepper and 1 teaspoon of sugar.
Step 3: in a big pot, drizzle some olive oil in,add in the minced garlic and stir quickly to get the aura. Pour in 1/3 of the coconut milk in (the rest we'll add later). Let the liquid get bubbles a little bit, add in the Masaman Curry paste and use a whisk to dissolve the paste into the coconut milk. The color will start to become deep orange.
Step 4: add the marinated beef in, cook in about 1-2 minutes. After that, add the carrots and onion in. Pour the rest of the coconut milk in. Taste it if you need to season some salt, for me, at this stage, I didn't add any because the curry paste is salty enough. Use the wooden spatula, stir occasionally, the sauce will start to thicken. Pour 1/2 cup of water in because at this point it will be salty as the sauce is thickening. Add peanut butter in and use the whisk to diffuse it into the sauce. At this stage, the peanuts we are cooking in the other pot are now soften enough, drain it and put into our curry pot. Season a tiny bit of salt, pepper and 1/2 teaspoon of sugar.
Step 5: Continue to stir with the wooden spatula, you can stop cooking it when you use your finger and run a line on the back of the spatula, and see if the sauce will come back together slowly. Don't wait till the sauce become super thick, it won't be good and and hard to swallow down. We want to have a runny consistency so we can enjoy it with steamed rice.
- Turn off the heat and add the basil leaves in. Taste it again for the last time and season it if you feel there is a need.
And NOW IT"S DONE ^^
Tasty peanut butter sauce with delicious soft beef and the light aura from the basil leaves pour over hot steamed rice enough to make this a hearty meal. I hope you give this recipe a try and let me know if you like it.
Thank you and GoOd LuCk !!!
- mobilemushroom-
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