A couple of days ago when I set out to make lunch I was wondering what to prepare. It had been a while since I had tried out a new meat recipe and to be honest I have become a little lazy to hunt for anything new and generally like to stick to my tried and tested collection of recipes. When it's beef or mutton I only like to make 'sukka' out of them as it is fast and simple but then when I saw my collection of beef recipes I decided that it was about time I added a new recipe there. Here's what I currently have on the blog under the 'beef' category (of course, the mutton recipe collection has some recipes that can be made with either mutton (goat meat or lamb) or beef)
Beef Chilli Fry *(Mangalorean)
Beef Sukka *(Mangalorean)
Beef or Mutton Devil *(Mangalorean)
Mangalorean Meatball Curry (With Coconut) *(Mangalorean)
Tongue Curry *(Goan/East India/Bombay Style)
Beef Fry *(Kerala Style)
Pepper Beef *(South Indian-Chinese Fusion Style)
Simple Meat Stew *(Mangalorean)
So I started to make a dish on my own. Added a bit of this and a bit of that and decided to make something with a hint of green, more like a green masala base. However, as I started to prepare the masala, more ideas popped into my head and I ended up making something totally out of the box. Some ingredients were fried before being ground and that added a whole dimension and depth of flavours to this dish. I can vouch for the fact that this dish can be made with mutton and chicken too and can be served with any carb you please - plain white rice, boiled rice, pulao, neer dosa, dosa, idli, sanna, chapathi, poori (yes!), cous cous (yes, yes!), kuboos (and why not?!), ragi muddhe (steamed finger millet balls) and maybe even corn tortillas! See! The possibilities are endless!