Ingredients

• 1 kg - beef (cut into 1-inch pieces)
• 3 cups - water
• 8 flakes - cloves
• 2 - cinnamon
• Salt to taste
• 3 tbsp - vinegar
• 10 - Kashmir chillies
• 6 - medium green chillies
• 3 - medium onions
• 1 tbsp - jeera
• 1/2 inch - turmeric
• 1 ball - tamarind
• 1 pod - garlic
• 8 - pepper corns
• 1/2 tsp - mustard seed
• 1 inch - ginger
• 500 gms - potatoes (boiled, peeled and cut)
• 3 tbsp - ghee | 2 tbsp - sugar (white or jaggery)
• 1/2 tbsp - brandy or whiskey (optional)

How to Make Beef Indad

• Cut the beef into small pieces and wash them.
• Grind all the masala in vinegar.
• Wash the mixer with diluted vinegar and remove all stuck masala, and keep aside.
• Boil the meat in water with cloves and cinnamon and salt to taste, till well cooked (about one hour or more).
• Remove the meat when cooked, and keep aside.
• Boil potatoes and peel and cut in slices and keep aside.
• Heat ghee in another vessel, also large enough to held the beef pieces and brown the boiled meat in it. Remove the meat and keep aside.
• In the same ghee, fry the ground masala, stirring all the time.
• Sprinkle a few drops of water once or twice, when frying.
• Then add the meat and gravy to the fried masala and stir.
• Add the diluted vinegar used for cleaning the mixer. Add boiled potato slices.
• Continue cooking for some time. Taste it.
• Put sugar, salt and vinegar to taste as required.
• And put them in the cooked meat.
• Recipe Courtesy: Mangalorean Recipes