Curry Fried Rice with Sweet and Sour Beef

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Chinese.…….………….……Take out

Ok I wrote all that because I wanted to illustrate that anytime I hear Chinese I simultaneously think takeout. I love Chinese meals “I no go lie”.

It’s an easy meal to make, hardly taking much time to cook except the preparation stage which involves a lot of chopping.

I modified this recipe of fried rice to make it more Nigerian this is achieved by adding curry to the rice. Chinese don’t add curry to their rice.

Ingredients

For the Rice

2 Cups Rice

1 Tbsp Curry powder

1 large Onions, thinly sliced

3 cloves Garlic, sliced

250 g Shrimps

Mixed veggies (carrots, Peas, sweet corn, red and green peppers)

Sugar

Salt

Oil.

For the Sauce

500g beef

2 Tbsp chopped ginger

1 Tbsp chopped garlic

1 tsp chili flakes

2 Tbsp soy sauce

Seasoning

2 Tbsp Sugar

1 Tbsp lime juice

1 tbsp Corn starch

2 cups water

Salt

Oil

Chives for garnishing

1. Boil the rice as you would normally cook it add the curry powder to the rice. Once the rice is done allow it to cool down a bit you can transfer it into a colander to hasten the cooling process. 
2. In a frying pan heat 3 tbsp of oil sauté the onions and the garlic until translucent add the veggies and the shrimp cook until the shrimps turn pinkish white. You can add any cube seasoning of your choice.  Add the boiled rice, sprinkle the sugar on top the rice and keep stirring for about 3 minutes, seasoning with salt. Set the rice aside
   

 

1. For the sauce shred the beef into long stripes, heat a little oil in the fry pan then add the beef and fry till it turns brown. Add the ginger, garlic and pepper cook for about a minute then add the sugar, and soy sauce.
2. Mix   the corn starch with the water and pour into the beef allow to cook for about 5 minutes.
3. Add the lime juice and season to your taste go easy with the salt.

 You can make the sauce as thick or as thin as you like. The sauce should balance between sweet and sour. Garnish with the chives which I totally forgot to do before taking the photo above.