#2 Daging Kurma

Next recipe shall be this daging masak kurma. When I made it, my whole family was overseas. You can't simply expect me to eat maggie noodles all the way right? Thus, I decided to cook this. All on my own with no instruction from mum. Alright enough with the talking. This is a really simple dish by way.

Ingredients:

1/2 a packet of Kurma powder by Adabi

3 onions (1 cut into 4 pc and the other 2, finely chopped)

2 cloves of garlic (finely chopped)

About 4 cm of ginger (just whack it hard once)

1 box of coconut milk

A little water

1 stick of cinnamon

2 pieces of Star Anise

2 seeds of cardamom

4 pieces of cloves

Chicken/beef/mutton (up to you but in this recipe I used thinly sliced beef which was actually meant for stir fry recipes.)

5 potatoes (optional)

salt to taste

Instructions:

First and foremost, you cut the onions and garlic as I have mentioned in the ingredients section, and also don't forget to peel those potatoes. Peel the potatoes and cut them into 4 sections. Also, whack your ginger to the extent that the aroma from it just escapes. Put aside these 4 ingredients. Add some water to the Kurma powder and keep adding until it becomes a thick Kurma paste.

Turn on the fire, heat up some oil. Sauté the finely chopped onions together with the garlic. Once the aroma rises, pour in the Kurma paste you just made earlier. It will look like in the picture above. Then put in your ginger, and the 4 spices mentioned. Once you see the oil separating from the paste, that is when you pour in your coconut milk. Stir until the color becomes uniform throughout the wok. Put in your potatoes and your beef slices. And then you just add about half a cup of water, and turn the heat to medium heat. And then you just wait for about 15 minutes or so, to let it cook your potatoes and beef to perfection.

It would be faster without the potatoes and if you use chicken instead. Coz if I cook the beef for just a short while, the meat would not be tender. Before turning off that fire, don't forget to add some salt to taste. And for final touch, just put in some red chilli and coriander leaves for decoration and some color to it before turning off the flame. Viola! As easy as ABC. For a start, just try this dish since it is rather simple! There is a recipe behind the Adabi Kurma packaging But that is more for big servings. This is just nice for 5 people at most.

happy trying! :)