Beef curry

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Serendip

By Peter Kuruvita

Published 2009

  • About

There are a number of Sri Lankan recipes for beef curry. Some have coriander leaves, others are fenugreek based. But I want to give you the house beef curry from our ancestral home in Dehiwala. My Dad modified it further when we were in Australia by adding a tablespoonful of tomato paste to enhance the richness.

This curry is not meant to be mild. It should be fiery and bring out beads of perspiration on your forehead while you are eating it. The flavours will really mingle if the c