Bangladeshi beef with shatkora curry.
Beef with Shatkora Curry is a traditional Sylheti dish from Bangladesh, featuring tender beef slow-cooked with aromatic spices and shatkora, a citrus fruit native to the region. The shatkora adds a unique tangy and slightly bitter flavor, making this curry rich, fragrant, and perfect for pairing with steamed rice, chitoi pitha, pulao etc.
Equipment
- 1 pot
Ingredients
- 1 kg beef with bones and fat
- 2 whole shatkora cut in 8 wedges.
- 3 cups chopped onion
- 1 cup mustard oil
- 2 tsp chili powder
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powdr
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp garam masala powder
- 2 bayleaves
- 4 cardamom
- 2 Cinnamon
- 1 tbsp salt
- 2 whole garlic
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- 3-4 green chili
Instructions
- In a bowl/or in the pot add the beef, and all the ingredients listed above, except for the shatkora and whole garlic.
- Mix everything very well.
- put it on a stove. cook everything on medium-high heat until the oil seperates and the onion starts to soften.
- add three cups of water and cook for 40-60 minutes on medium-low heat, covered.
- stir in between.
- after 60 minutes, add shatkora, some extra gorom moshla, green chili and give it a mix. add a cup of water at this stage if you want gravy.
- Now simmer slow and low for another 20-30 minutes until meat is extra tender and soft.
- enjoy with rice, chitoi pitha, pulao or roti.