Minced Meat Curry

Minced Meat Curry is an Indian cuisine. It’s made with lots of spices like turmeric, cinnamon, cumin, coriander and dried red chili flakes. Hmm.. It seems that I’m cooking a lot of spicy food these few months..

Serves:  6

Ingredients:

• 500 g minced beef or lamb or pork  (I used half minced beef and half minced pork)
• 2 onions, finely chopped
• 4 large potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
• 1 tbsp minced garlic
• 1 tbsp minced ginger
• 1 tsp ground tumeric
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 tsp cumin powder
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 2 tsp dried red chili flakes
• 1 can (400g) crushed tomatoes or passata
• 300ml beef or lamb or pork stock
• 150g baby spinach leaves
• salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• abt 3 tbsp vegetable oil

Preparation:

1. Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Sautee onions till transparent, abt 3-4 mins.
2. Add minced garlic and ginger. Then add cinnamon, turmeric powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and chilli flakes, stirring into the onions to mix completely, cook for abt 3 mins.
3. Add minced meat, continue stirring and mixing meat with onions and spices.
4. After abt 5 mins or when meat turns slightly brown, add potatoes, tomatoes/passata and stock.
5. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to low and simmer for abt 20 mins, stirring occasionally.
6. Add in spinach and heat thru for 1 min, just till spinach wilts.
7. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper, if necessary.
8. Serve immediately with white rice.

This is what I found out after doing a search on the benefits of consuming spiced food:

• spicy food helps to prevent degeneration of the brain and nervous system
• helps with prevention of depression and migraine
• helps increase metabolism which is an important factor in weight loss function
• uses for pain and inflammation management
• good for blood circulation
• lowers blood pressure
• cancer prevention (Capsaicin, an active component of chili peppers, attack and kill cancer cells)
• improves digestion
• improves sleep pattern

So, I guess in a way, it’s really good that both Dunster and I love spicy food.. 😛

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