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beef

These beef recipes are typical of the types of curries the Raj loved. The Raj loved beef, as befits the British.

Surprisingly, cooking beef is not unknown in India. Depending on the location, Hindu beliefs did not prevail, and there is an established cuisine for this ingredient.

Most of these recipes require slow cooking as the cuts of meat that were used are usually the cheaper pieces and are well suited to a slow braise. The premium cuts were most often used in typically British steaks and roasts.

A slow-cooked beef curry is a thing of beauty and great flavour.

a serving plate of beef bhuna

beef bhuna

This recipe for bhuna gorur mangsho produces a dish that is rich and intense. Beef bhuna cooks in its own juices, giving the dish a deep flavour.

a bowl of beef with tamarind and ginger curry

beef curry with tamarind and ginger

Our favourite beef curry. It is a thick, rich and hot dish, with the sourness of the tamarind offset by the sweetness of the ginger.

a cooking dish of beef shatkora

beef shatkora

This beef curry features an unusual citrus fruit, shatkora, to provide a contrast to the richly spiced meat. It is a Bengali dish, from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh .

serving dish of goan beef steak, potato, tomato and onion

Goan steak and potato

This is the Goan version of "meat and three veg", and is clearly a dish from their Portuguese heritage. In fact, it is most commonly called by its Portuguese name of Bife de Goa. It has everything that the Portuguese loved and inspired in Goan cuisine, namely chilli, garlic and vinegar.

A bowl of Sri Lankan beef curry.

Sri Lankan beef curry

This Sri Lankan beef curry features beef slowly braised in a coconut milk gravy. Take your time to cook this, and allow the flavours to develop.

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