Thai Red Beef Stir Fry Curry

Thai Red Beef Stir Fry Curry

A delicious, flavoursome and extremely quick Thai beef curry that can be made in the time it takes to cook your rice!

Serves 2

Prep time:  5-10 minutes

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

For the paste

1 shallot, peeled & roughly chopped

2 birds eye chillies, de-seeded & roughly chopped

3 garlic cloves, peeled & roughly chopped

2 kaffir lime leaves, roughly chopped

1 tbsp soy sauce

2 tbsp fish sauce

1 tsp shrimp paste

4 tbsp tomato puree

1 tbsp paprika

1 tbsp ground cumin

1 tbsp ground coriander

½ tsp ground cinnamon

½ tsp turmeric

¼ tsp ground nutmeg

For the curry

1 tbsp groundnut oil

250g/9oz beef fillet, thinly sliced

400ml/14 fl oz coconut milk

1 tbsp fish sauce

1 lime, juice only

To serve

300g/11oz Thai jasmine rice, steamed

Method

1.   For the paste, place all the ingredients into a food processor and blend until you have a smooth paste.

2.  For the curry, heat a wok and then add the oil and beef, stir fry until browned.  Add the paste and cook for 1-2 minutes.  Pour in the coconut milk, bring to the boil and simmer for 2-3 minutes.

3.  Add the fish sauce and lime juice to taste.  Serve with jasmine rice.