Title: Beef vindaloo
 Categories: Beef, Meats, Indian
      Yield: 1 Servings
 
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      2 lb Beef chuck cut into 1" cubes
     14 c  Garlic
    1/2 c  Red wine vinegar
      4 sm Hot Red Chiles
    1/4 ts Cumin seeds
    3/4 ts Tumeric
      1 ts Dry English mustard
      1    Lemon
  1 1/4 ts - Salt
    1/4 ts Ginger
      2    Bay leaves
      5    Cloves; whole
      3 tb Poppy seeds
      1 sm Onion
    1/2 c  Tomato paste
           Clarified butter
           - Salt and pepper to taste
    1/4 c  Sugar
 
      Place the garlic and vinegar into a blender and mix to a smooth
  paste. Remove the tops and bottoms of the chiles and remove the
  seeds. (do NOT put your fingers near your eyes, or they will become
  inflamed). Add the peppers to the blended paste.  Put cumin seeds,
  tumeric, mustard, ginger, salt and sugar into a small bowl and mix
  together. Pour this mixture into the blender.  Remove the peel from
  the lemon, squeeze the juice, discard the pips and chop the inner
  pulp. Add the juice and the pulp to the blender, then blend
  thouroughly.
       Place the beef into a bowl and pour the blended mixture over it.
  Stir in the poppy seeds and marinate for two hours. (Be careful not
  to spill this marinade, or you might have to move from your home!
  ) After meat is marinated, finely slice the onion.
      Pour some clarified butter a skillet over med. heat, and add the
  onions. Cook until opaque.  Add the bay leaves and cloves. With a
  slotted spoon, lift the meat from the marinade and add to the frying
  onions, increasing the heat so that the meat is sealed quickly. When
  the meat is sealed all over, add the marinade.
      Cover tightly, reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour. After
  the meat has cooked for 1 hour, add the tomato paste, stirring it
  thoroughly into the meat mixture, and cook for another 30 min. When
  the meat is tender, serve at once - piping hot.
      This is very hot!  Nice served with plain boiled or steamed long
  grain rice.
   For a nice cooling touch you might serve with a lime cordial.
      Note: When using the hot chilies, remove the placenta as well as
  the seeds (the inside fleshy membrane) as it contains Capucin and can
  cause inflamation if you eat too much.