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Jiten's standard meat curry using fresh ingredients

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Ingredients

whole spices and oil

  • 1/4 Cup Oil
  • 2 Pieces Cinnamon
  • 8 Pieces clove
  • 6 Pieces Cardamom, black cardamom is very good, but regular pale cardamom is good too.

wet ingredients

  • 1 Cup Garlic, fresh, chopped, use white and green, or all green. Don't use the top part of the leaf that has sand under it.
  • 3 Cup Onions, fresh, chopped
  • 3-4 T. ginger, finely chopped

powdered spices

  • 1 T. Turmeric, 1
  • 1-1/2 t. Chillies, powdered

final ingredients

  • 28 Ounce tomatoes, canned, organic
  • 2-1/2 Pound meat, cut for curry
  • 3 Cup water

Steps

  1. Fry the whole spices gently in the oil until they puff up slightly.
  2. Add the Onions, Garlic, and Ginger. Fry gently until they are very soft, approximately 20-30 minutes. Add small amounts of water if they start to burn.
  3. Add the powdered spices and fry them for two minutes.
  4. Turn up the stove to high, and add the Tomatoes. Cook until the tomatoes are hot.
  5. Add the Meat, get it it hot also, then fry it for 6 minutes.
  6. Heat the water to boiling, separately, then add it to the Curry. Simmer very gently unti the meat is cooked.
  7. This can be made with no meat. Just pour over hard-boiled egg halves for egg curry.
  8. good choices for meat are organic chicken thighs, whole organic chicken, skinned, and "cut for curry", lamb pieces without fat, beef pieces
  9. If desired, if using red meat, after frying the spices, you can brown the beef or lamb in the oil. Set the meat aside and cook as directed.
  10. Serve with rice or nan or bread.