BEEF PICKLE

Now a days BEEF PICKLE is one of the delicious and popular Indian recipe as a pickle.  Actually pickling is a process of preserving of food by either anaerobic fermentation in brine or immersion in vinegar.  We can pickle vegetables as well as non vegetarian food like beef, prawns, fish etc. Beef pickle is very hot and spicy. 

BEEF PICKLE

See the recipe:



INGREDIENTS

Beef - 1 Kg
Garlic - 25 cloves (chopped)
Ginger - 2 inch piece ( chopped)
Green chilli - 5 (chopped)
Black pepper - 1 tablespoon (crushed)
Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Kashmiri chilli powder - 3 tablespoon
Garam masala - 1/2 teaspoon
Vinegar - 3 tablespoon
Curry leaves - 3 springs
Cooking oil - as required
Salt - to taste

FOR MARINATION

Ginger garlic paste - 2 table spoon
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 teaspoon
Garam masala - 1/2 teaspoon
Salt - to taste

PREPARATION

   Clean and Cut beef into small pieces. Mix ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, garam masala and salt and make a paste. Marinate beef with the mix and keep aside for 30 minutes. Cook marinated beef with some water in a pressure cooker in medium flame. Drain the cooked beef and set aside. Keep the stock aside.

   Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan and fry the cooked beef pieces till brown and keep aside. Heat oil in the same pan and add mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds. When it splutter, add chopped garlic, ginger, green chillies and curry leaves and fry them till the raw smell disappears. Put kashmiri chilli powder and garam masala with some water and put it to the pan and saute for few seconds. Add vinegar and beef stock to the masala mix and allow it to boil. Then add the fried beef pieces and mix well. Then check the salt. Add crushed black pepper seeds and stir well tilll the gravy get thick. Turn off the flame and allow it to cool.  Beef pickle is ready. Transfer the pickle into a glass jar. Enjoy....

STEP BY STEP METHOD

1. Clean and cut beef into small pieces and marinate with ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder, garam masala and salt for 30 minutes. Then cook the marinated beef  with some water in a cooker. Drain the cooked beef and keep the stock aside.

2. Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan

3. Fry the cooked beef pieces till it get brown

4. Heat oil in the same pan and add mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds and allow it to splutter

5. Then add chopped garlic, ginger, green chillis and curry leaves to it and saute well.

6. Fry them until the raw smell disappears

7. Add kashmiri chilly powder and garam masala and saute for few seconds

8. Add vinegar and beef stock and allow it to boil.

9. Add fried beef pieces to it and stir well. Check the salt.

10. Add crushed black pepper and mix well. Then stir the pickle well until the gravy get thick.

11. Turn off the flame and allow the pickle to get cool.

12. Delicious beef pickle is ready. Transfer it into a glass jar.. Enjoy..

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