Thai
Massaman Beef Curry
Massaman Beef Curry is Thai home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 lb beef chuck
- 4 tbsp massaman curry paste
- 27 oz coconut milk
- 4 yukon gold potatoes
- 1 onion
- 1/2 cup roasted peanuts
- 3 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp tamarind paste
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 tbsp neutral oil
- 4 cups cooked jasmine rice
How to cook it
- Brown the cubed beef in the oil over medium-high heat in batches, then set it aside.
- Fry the massaman paste with the thick coconut cream from the top of one can until fragrant and oily, about 4 minutes.
- Return the beef, pour in the remaining coconut milk with a cup of water, add the cinnamon, and simmer gently, partly covered, for 1 hour.
- Add the potatoes, onion wedges, and peanuts and simmer until the beef and potatoes are tender, about 25 minutes.
- Season with the fish sauce, brown sugar, and tamarind, balancing salty, sweet, and sour to taste.
- Serve over the jasmine rice.
Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Massaman Beef Curry, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Massaman Beef Curry carries peanuts, shellfish, fish, and coconut. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | Yes | Drunken Noodles with Chicken |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Larb Gai |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Pad See Ew with Chicken |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Drunken Noodles with Chicken |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, Meat or fish, and Nuts and seeds
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Massaman Beef Curry takes about 90 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on beef, coconut, peanut, and potato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.