 Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com. Today I will have another episode of easy cooking video and I'll show you how to cook simple beef at home. So I have all the ingredients ready right here and I'll just go over them one by one. So the first thing you're looking at the beef and the amount I have here is lesser than half kg. So the ingredients are based on the beef amount. If you're increasing the beef amount or decreasing the beef amount then you have to just adjust the other ingredients as well. But basically you know it works. You don't have to worry too much about like you know being too perfect because nothing is perfect and then you're going to learn you know once you started cooking it. So not to worry about too much having the right amount at the first time. So the beef again is lesser than half kg and then I have potatoes here. You don't have to use potatoes but the reason I use potatoes because it gives the volume to the curry and also like you know it adds a separate flavor which I like. So basically potatoes come very good with beef and it adds you know more flavor and taste to the beef curry. And then we have the spices which is very important. So the salt you're looking at right here is about two teaspoon of salt. You can you know put it more or less based on your salt intake. I try not to make it too salty because you know I don't like being I don't like to eat food being too salty. So it's about two teaspoon. And then here this is the main ingredient of beef curry which is turmeric or some call it turmeric. And here you're looking at about two tablespoon which is this size. And then we have coriander and cumin and these are one tablespoon each. And then I added a slight red pepper and this is about one teaspoon or a little bit lesser than one teaspoon. If you are putting this much too stuff it's gonna be too spicy. So just like you know based on your spice intake adjust this amount. And then here we have onions, ginger and garlic. These are the very important ingredients to cook any type of curry especially for beef curry. So in beef curry you need lots of onion. And here I chopped one full red onion. And here you can see that you know I chopped it into very tiny pieces. And here it's not that much chopped. It's like in almost a whole. Although it's chopped so you can see right here. The reason is that these are going to be melted once the beef is done. And these will give you know the beef a little bit of volume and extra flavor. But you don't have to actually do it this way. You can do it anyway you want. And we have 7 to 10 cloves of garlic. Garlic also like you know a very special ingredient for beef. And then I have here a little bit of ginger. And this is I would say about one teaspoon or half tablespoon somewhere in between. So these are other ingredients. And we have here the other ingredient which is very important is extra virgin olive oil. Any olive oil would do. But you know I prefer to use extra virgin olive oil to get the most out of your beef. So the amount I have here is about 30 ml or lesser. And we have here slightly lesser than one ounce. So basically these are all the ingredients. And we're going to cook this slow to medium. Not too high. And I'm going to be cooking for about 30 to 45 minutes. And I'm not going to add the potatoes initially because I'll just wait like you know 20 minutes. And after 20 minutes I'll add the potato because what happens if you add potatoes right away then it's going to get all melted. It's not going to be whole and nice looking. But if you add potatoes after half of the cooking or half way through which is about I would say like you know 15 20 minutes then it's going to get you know intact and then it's going to look much better. And you can add slightly a little bit of water but you don't don't put too much water that's going to make like like you know the whole beef curry like your soup. So I'm going to just show you how much I put which should be good enough to give you the like you know a little bit. It's not going to make it too dry. So it's going to still give you the like a little bit of soup looking but it's not going to be too soupy. So we'll just you know add slightly water later on. So let's start with what we have here. So this is the pot we are going to be using and I'm going to just you know add everything one by one in here. So the first thing I'm going to put in the beef and potatoes I'm leaving it for later. And then I'm going to start with the onion, ginger and garlic. So we have it here. So so far it looks this way. We have beef, onion, ginger and garlic and then I'm going to you know add all the spices together. And the last thing I'm going to add is the oil but let me just show you how it looks. It looks very colorful and nice and I'm going to just you know spread the oil all over it. And right now I'm going to just wash this to take the you know remaining oil which are still in the you know container. So let's add slight water not too much. So this is going to be actually my water intake. I'm not going to put in more water than this. So I'm going to just you know add all this water and then I'll have to just mix this together. So you know the all the spices and onions and garlics everything gets everywhere instead of like you know staying at one place. So I'll just like you know mix this very nicely. I like to cook beef very slowly. That way it brings all the flavor and the taste and the color. So you know we are looking at 30 to 45 minutes and here I'm going to be like you know checking in between to make sure that it is not overcooked. But if you're using a pressure cooker or let's say instant pot then you can just put everything all together. But here you have to like you know check it manually to make sure that you know it's not overcooked or undercooked. And when I'm going to show you later on how you can tell that you know the beef is fully cooked. So we have everything here and you can see that you know everything melted inside very nicely or everything like you know mixed together. And right now so I'm going to have to just start you know cooking. So I'm going to put it on the stove and start very slowly. Initially I'm going to you know leave it at medium but later on I'll even lower from medium to like you know one or two marks about right here. So for now just leave it leave it at medium and then I'm going to just you know cover this and you can hear the noise. So it starts cooking and then we're going to be adding or put it to about 20 minutes later which I have it right here. Hello everyone. We passed about 20 to 25 minutes and I'm going to check how it looks right now. And I had to lower the you know heat because it was kind of getting too much or overheated. And I checked a few times in between to see it's not sticking to the bottom. So you have to make sure that you know it's not. And so far I haven't added any extra water. So we'll just we'll just take a look at it now how it looks. So you can see here that it's boiling and so far looks like you know we didn't have to add any more water. So what I'll do although we didn't have to add water but you know the it looks a little bit thick. So I'm just going to add slightly more water and put in the potato because I don't want you know this much thick soup. I just want a little bit lighter. So let's throw in the potatoes and then let me just add some more water. So I'm adding another two ounce or close to 50-55 milliliter of water. So I'll just put it in and I'm going to just you know steer them properly so the beef gets all the spices and everything. So this is how it looks. So I'm going to just you know keep cooking for another 20 minutes and we'll check. So we may need more time but you know we'll see at that time after 20 minutes how it looks. So I'll just you know cover this and then I'm going to just take a look at it again but in between I'll also make sure that you know it's nothing is sticking to the bottom. So we passed another 20 minutes since we put in the potatoes and now we have the finished beef curry. So I kept checking in between and if they're like you know when you if you see that the heat is too much you can lower the heat or if you see that you know the water is too low and sticking to the bottom then you can just you know add a little bit more water. One way you can check if your beef is done or not. You can just you know take a piece of beef and you can eat it and then when you chew it it should be you know melted in your mouth. You shouldn't have too much effort to chew it or another we can check if the beef is done that you just take a beef and you cut it with a knife and you should be able to you know cut the beef without too much pressure and it's going to be not you know too hard or too hard to cut. So for example if you look at it right here you see that I was able to cut it very easily and it's not too much effort and you know it looks very soft and well done. And in terms of taste the taste is very good. So this is just a simple way to cook a beef. Adjust the ingredients which I showed you before to make it more spicy or you know to make it salty but the time it took me about 45 minutes because I was you know doing it at very low heat but if you you know increase the heat then definitely you can do it faster but this is my observation that doing or cooking at lower heat that brings more flavor and color and smell and as you can see that you know it looks really nice and it's not too watery or too dry. So it should is the perfect way to have beef curry. So that's all for today. Thank you for watching this video. If you like this video then I'll do some more simple cooking videos in the future and I'll see shortly. Thank you.