We were recently invited for dinner by one of our friends. Without doubt, I accepted the invitation immediately, but only after a while I realised that we were on lent that time! I messaged my friend about our lent and pat came her reply that we can meet the following week. Since we had something else planned for the next week, I replied saying that we didn't mind a veg menu.
Let me correct that statement, it's actually I didn't mind veg menu, Jose definitely minds ;)
I was sure about one thing… even if we both didn't bother much about the menu being veg, our host definitely bothered. Ask any non veg person to cook a complete veg menu and you know what I'm talking about! Some of my friends absolutely hate (I know, hate is a strong word to use, but that's the truth) cooking a complete veg menu. The reason most of them say that is that they don't know what to cook other than Paneer and Dal. Are you like that by any chance? (Vegetarians please excuse, it's nothing personal ;)
Going by the increasing number of bans in India on non veg food, I guess it's safe to say that non veg people better start enjoying or at least try to pretend enjoying veg food, you never know when your “acha din” is going to pop up ;)
Coming back to our friends dinner, I should say the food was just great! I didn't even miss the non veg, even though there was my fav Beef Fry and Chicken Biriyani. I don't mind whether the food is veg or non veg, as long it's cooked completely and it has flavour!
Now, if you are wondering why I went on about the whole veg and non veg conversation, the thing is, it's been sometime, I've been feeding you (virtually) only veg recipes. Yeah, I posted a fish recipe in between, but you know what, for hardcore non-vegetarians, “Meat” is the ultimate thing! So, I didn't want to test your patience further by posting more veg or similar recipes.
You might have noticed my love for “Varutharacha Curries” (roasted coconut gravy). Honestly, I wasn't very familiar with this flavour while growing up, except for Theeyal recipes. I guess I got hooked on to it, after coming to Bahrain. During my initial days in Bahrain, we used to order Puttu and Varutharacha Chicken Curry from one of the Kerala restaurants here. I loved that combo and that led to many recipes like Pork Roast, Njandu Roast, Varutharacha Meen Curry, Varutharacha Sambar and Varutharacha Chicken Curry. See, I told you I just love this style of cooking.
About this recipe, well, for me any Beef recipe is good ;) The roasted coconut masala gives a wonderful flavour and richness to the curry. that goes well Steamed Rice, Ghee Rice, Roti, Appam, Puttu, Idiyappam etc;
Tried today! Was so yummy. Thanks for sharing the recipe
You are welcome! Happy to know that the recipe came out well for you. Thanks for leaving a comment here :)
Tried this out Yesterday.Came out Pretty Good.Really enjoyed it.What led me to try this Recipe was the the Picture you have posted in the beginning.
It is so appealing that you can actually taste the Curry by just looking at the picture.Thank You.
Hi Pradeep,
Thank you very much :) Great to know that the picture inspired you to try out this recipe. I’m glad you liked it.
Wish you a Happy New Year!
Cheers
Maria
aru ban thannalum njanga thinnum beef.. “beef” illathe enthonnu life….cheers maria, nice story and nice presentation too…..love it…..
rgds,
MTW
hehe, that’s the spirit :) Thanks for your comment!
Cheers
Maria
Love reading your stories in each post.. Cracked up on reading the ‘acha-din’ sentence..
Thank you so much :) It’s always nice to know, somebody is reading my stories ;)
Cheers
Maria
This is one of my personal favourite too :) Do you know about “aana pathiri” from malabar side? “Aana” not elephant pronunciation but “na” as in “veena”. That’s a very special dish from malabar with gravy as this one and we mix coin shaped rice maavu with the gravy. Yummy!!!
Hi,
Is anna pathiri and pidi the same? I’ve posted Erachi pidi recipe earlier, you can see it here: https://mariasmenu.wpcomstaging.com/spicy/erachi-pidi-rice-dumplings-cooked-in-spicy-meat-gravy
If you are referring to that, I love it, it’s one of my fav too :)
Cheers
Maria
Yes Maria…pidi is exactly the same thing. I think, in Kozhikode it is called pidi, and in Kannur we call Aana pathiri. The coconut milk in your recipe, we don’t add. But recently I tasted my niece’s aana pathiri made with coconut milk…and it tasted super yummy.
oh k.. yeah it happens, same thing known in different names at diff places :) Hope you get to try the coconut milk version sometime.
Cheers
Maria