Vindaloo Masala Spice Mix Food

VINDALOO

Steps:

• Salt beef: Toss beef in salt.
• Check spiciness of kashmiri chilli powder and adjust if desired. See Spiciness Note below.
• Curry Paste: Place Curry Paste ingredients in a Nutribullet or small food processor with 1 cup of the water. Blitz until smooth. Pour over beef. Pour remaining 1 cup water into Nutribullet, shake (to clean out remaining curry paste), then pour/scrape over beef.
• Marinate beef: Mix beef in curry paste, cover, then marinate 2 hours. (Note: marinade is fairly thin - the water cooks down during slow cooking.)
• Preheat oven to 190°C/375°F (170°C fan).
• Curry sauce: Melt ghee over medium high. Cook onion, ginger and garlic until they become translucent - about 3 minutes.
• Mustard seeds: Add black mustard seeds then cook until onion is tinged with gold. Stir in tomato paste, cook 1 minute.
• Puree sauce: Add beef stock, stir. Transfer into a jug then use a stick blender to puree until smooth. Pour back into the pot.
• Add beef: Add beef and curry leaves, stir then bring to boil.
• Slow cook: Cover with a lid, then place in the oven for 2 hours or until beef is fall apart tender and the sauce has darkened in colour and thickened. (See Note 7 if sauce hasn't reduced enough).
• Serve: Garnish with coriander, then serve over basmati rice with a side of naan!

VINDALOO CHICKEN MASALA W/CHICKPEAS AND KALE

Steps:

• Prepare vindaloo masala paste as follows- add garlic powder, salt, pepper, and the vindaloo masala spice mix to a small bowl. Incorparate the olive oil with the mixture and add 2 tsp tomato paste and mix well.set aside. Dice the onions and carrots, slice garlic into slithers, and then cut fingerling potatoes in about inch to 2 inch cuts. Also cut chicken breast into about 2 inch square dices. Take half of the vindaloo masala paste and mix it in with all the cut vegetables (not kale or chickpeas yet.) Spray a small baking dish with pam, add veggie mixture and place in oven on 325 high for 20 minutes. Take the other 1/2 of the vindaloo masala paste and rub it all over the diced chicken.
• Add the chicken to a large skillet or wok and cook on medium low heat then turn up to med heat when almost all the way cooked to darken a little more. While those are cooking wash the kale and take the leaves from the stems and tear into about 3 or 4 inch strips and set aside. Take out the veggie mix from oven and add into skillet or wok with chicken. Add pint of chicken stock and drained chickpeas. Let simmer med high for about 5 minutes to make sure the potatoes are fully cooked but not mushy.
• Add the kale let cook and wilt on medium heat for another 5 minutes. Add the remaining 2 tsp of tomato paste to tighten the liquid up. Add a little more vindaloo masala mix to taste for heat and salt pepper to taste. Enjoy.