Massaman Curry With Osso Bucco
Massaman Curry With Beef (Osso Bucco)
Massaman curry can be made with all types of meat. In southern Thailand where majority of populations are Muslim, the Massaman curry usually made with beef.
Moreover, it is known among Thai that if you want to buy the best Mussaman curry paste, you should look for it in the Muslim community. They are very skillful with the use of spices to make a perfect Massaman curry paste.👩🏻🍳
Ingredients (2 servings)
700 g. Osso Bucco / 500g. beef chunks
4-5 tbsp Massaman curry paste
500 g. potato, large diced
1 large onion, large diced
1/2 cup roasted peanut
700 ml. coconut milk
300 ml. water
2 tbsp salt
1 stock cube
2-3 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp tamarin paste
8 Thai cardamom seed (optional)
1 cinnamon stick
3 star anis
4-5 bay leaves
How to:
✔️ If you are using beef chunks, cut the beef in pieces, big cube, the same size as you would make a stew first.
✔️Cook the Osso Bucco or the beef, roasted peanut and stock cube in 200 ml. coconut milk and 300 ml. water, and let it simmer in a low heat for at least 1 hour.
✔️ Roast Thai cardamom seed, cinnamon, star anis and bay leaves in a pan, and set it aside.
✔️ Add about 1/2 cup of creamy part of coconut milk or add 100 ml. coconut milk and Massaman curry paste to a pan. Cook the paste in low heat for 5 mins. Then pour the cooked pasted into the pot with cooked Osso Bucco.
✔️ Add the last of coconut milk, roasted spices, potato, onion and all the seasonings to the pot, and bring it to boil. Then bring the heat down to medium and let it simmer for 30-45 mins.
Tips and tricks:
🤓 To make a child friendly version of massaman, before I poured the cooked Massaman cream to the main pot, I took out some part of cooked pork (with the soup too) and set some of the roasted herbs aside. Then I cooked it with the same approach as a normal version (without the Massaman paste).
And before I finished it off, I took out some of the red oil on the surface of normal Massaman in the big pot, and add them to the baby pot, so it can add more aroma and color to the child version.
🤓 My mom would add pineapple in her Massaman too. Pineapple would give a hint of sweet and sour taste to the curry sauce. At the same time, it helps to tenderize the meat as well.