Also, you should know that while I call this a curry, it’s actually more of a dry dish. It’s still a little unusual for me to write an Indian recipe calling for ground beef. Until about ten years ago, I didn’t even know Indian beef recipes existed. My parents grew up in north India, where you don’t ever see people eating beef. During our family trips to India, I had never seen anyone eat beef or talk about eating beef. That’s because cows are considered sacred to Hindus, and Hinduism is the predominant religion in India. I grew up in a Sikh family, and so while it was acceptable for us to eat beef, my mom didn’t cook beef until I started dating Roby (my parents loved him from the start and would even grill steak for him – pretty sure they wanted to make sure he’d marry me, ha). Roby is Catholic, and his family is from Kerala, where beef is a staple. I love that he and his family have introduced me to a whole new way of cooking and combining spices. If you like Indian food and ground beef, then you’ll love this dish. If you don’t like beef, you can easily substitute this with a different type of ground meat: ground lamb, goat, chicken, or turkey will work just fine too 🙂
just for fun, here’s a picture that I took of this dish in 2013:
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