Beef Dopiaza Recipe with Stove Top and Instant Pot Instructions
This beef dopiaza curry is an ode to the British Indian curries that I love, heavy with onions and heady with spices yo,u will love this slow-cooked treat!
Course Main Course
Cuisine Anglo Indian
Keyword beef dopiaza, do pyaza, dopiaza, indian beef curry
Roughly chop one of the onions and cut the second into 8 wedges.
Peel the garlic and ginger and roughly chop the ginger.
Remove the stems from the chilli peppers.
Roughly chop the tomato.
Cut the beef into 1.5 cm (½") chunks.
Hob/Stovetop Instructions:
Add half of the ghee to a 30cm or 12" skillet or pan with a lid over a medium heat and add in onion wedges. Fry for 20 minutes until they get a nice colour, then remove and set aside.
Blend the roughly chopped onion, garlic, ginger and chilli peppers to form a paste.
Add onion puree and fry for 10 minutes, stirring regularly.
Throw in the chilli powder, cumin, coriander, amchoor and beef. Stir to coat the beef.
Pour in the water and add the fenugreek and diced tomato, then season with salt. Mix to combine, and add a lid, then cook covered on low for an hour.
Remove the lid and add the onion wedges that we cooked earlier, cook, stirring regularly until the sauce thickens. This should take around 5-10 minutes.Add the garam masala and serve
Instant Pot Instructions:
Put the IP into saute mode and when hot add half of the ghee.
Fry the onion wedges until they begin to colour; this should take around 10-15 minutes, then remove and set aside.
Add the remaining ghee. Pour in the onion and garlic puree and cook, stirring regularly, for 10 minutes.
Add in the chilli powder, cumin, coriander, amchoor, salt, fenugreek and beef and stir to combine.
Add the diced tomato and pour over the water.
Add the lid, seal and cook under high pressure for 15 minutes with a 10-minute natural pressure release.
Remove the lid carefully and switch on to saute mode.
Add the onions that we cooked earlier and stir until the sauce thickens.
Turn off the heat and stir through the garam masala and allow to sit for 3-4 minutes before serving.