Easy Beef Curry Recipe - Budget Friendly

Easy beef curry recipe that's super simple to make. Tender slowly cooked braising steak in a rich, mildly spiced tomato sauce. A budget friendly, tasty dinner recipe all the family will love.

Our easy beef curry recipe is a sort of mash up between a curry and a slowly cooked oven baked stew. The result is delicious tender beef in a lovely thick, mildly spiced tomato curry sauce.

And it's so easy to make!

I use a blend of spices to create a tasty curry flavour - a mixture of ground cumin, turmeric, ground coriander and red chilli flakes. I stir garam masala through the curry towards the end of cooking.

If you don't want to buy a whole lot of different spices then buy yourself a pot of mild or medium curry powder and a pot of garam masala for a similar style taste.

You could also use a jar of Balti Curry Paste - beef Balti is a delicious dish!

What To Serve With Curry

Our easy beef curry is super versatile for an easy midweek meal try serving with plain boiled basmati rice or even a heap of creamy mashed potatoes.

If you want to make a more special dinner then serve with Indian style breads - like naan or chapatis, a selection of Indian style dips, Indian mint sauce, mango chutney and a pile of crunchy popadoms.

I always like to serve curry with a spicy, zingy fresh salad - try our Indian Salad Recipe here.

Can You Freeze Curry?

Absolutely - just cool and store the leftovers in an air tight container or tip into a freezer bag. Freeze for up to a month - I usually freeze leftovers and add to my meal plan to eat the next week.

How To Reheat Curry

To reheat the curry place it in a saucepan on the hob and warm slowly to a boil - then simmer for around 10 minutes or until the food is piping hot and heated properly throughout.

You can also reheat this in the microwave in a suitable container until the food is heated properly.

If defrosting the curry - be sure to do so thoroughly, before re-heating.

Equipment Needed To Make Beef Curry

• Chopping board

• Sharp knife

• Tablespoon

• Grater

• Oven proof skillet pan with a lid (or saucepan and separate casserole dish with a lid)

• Cooking spoon or spatula

Beef Curry Ingredients

You'll just need a handful of tasty ingredients to make our simple beef curry recipe

• 1 tablespoon Sunflower Oil

• 1 Large Onion

• 1 Thumb Sized Piece of Ginger

• 3 Cloves of Garlic

• 600g Diced Braising Steak

• 2 teaspoon Ground Cumin

• 2 teaspoon Ground Coriander

• 1 teaspoon Turmeric

• 1 teaspoon Red Chilli Flakes

• 2 Tins Chopped Tomatoes

• 3 tablespoon Natural Yogurt

• 2 teaspoon Garam Masala

If you're using curry powder just substitute 2 tbs of curry powder in place of the cumin, turmeric, chilli flakes and coriander.

Loads more delicious, easy beef recipes right here.

How To Make Easy Beef Curry

You will just LOVE how simple our aromatic beef curry is to prepare and cook!

Step One - preheat the oven

• Preheat the oven to 180C / 350F / Gas Mark 4

Step Two - prepare the vegetables

• Peel and finely dice the onions

• Peel and finely grate the ginger and garlic

• Add the sunflower oil to a large skillet casserole pan - one that you can use on the hob and in the oven is best as then you don't need to pour the beef curry into an oven proof dish from the pan.

• Gently sauté the onions for around 5 minutes over a medium heat.

• Add the grated ginger and garlic to the pan and continue to cook for another couple of minutes.

Step Three - brown the beef

• Tip in the diced braising steak and brown the meat over a medium heat.

Step Four - add the spices to the Indian beef curry

• Once the braising steak is browned it's time to add in the spices.

• Tip in the cumin, coriander, turmeric and red chilli flakes

• Stir everything together and cook over a medium heat for a couple of minutes.

Step Five - add the tomatoes to the meat curry

• Tip in the two tins of chopped tomatoes

• Half fill one of the empty tomato tins with water and then empty that into the curry too.

• Season with salt and black pepper

Step Six - cook the meat curry in the oven

• Mix everything together, cover the pan with a tight fitting lid and then put in the oven for around 1 hour 45 minutes or until the beef is very tender and the sauce thickened.

• Once the beef is cooked and mouthwateringly tender and falling apart, remove the beef curry from the oven.

• Tip in the natural yogurt and the garam masala

• Stir the natural yogurt and garam masala into the beef curry

• Return the beef curry to the oven and continue to cook for a further 15 minutes whilst you cook the rice and get any side dishes ready.

Step Seven - serve the beef curry and rice

Make Our Easy Beef Curry Recipe in the Slow Cooker

Just follow the directions below to make slow cooker beef curry.

You can absolutely make our easy beef curry recipe in the slow cooker - get a large saucepan then just sauté the onions, garlic and ginger - add the beef and brown, tip in spices/curry powder add the tomatoes and water and then bring to a gently boil on the hob - then transfer to the slow cooker.

Cook on low for around 8-9 hours

If the beef curry needs thickening then do this with a couple of teaspoon of cornflour mixed into a paste with cold water and then stirred through the curry and heated through.

Need Some Family Meal Ideas?

Check out our meal planning here – it’s filled with recipes, meal planning tips and pre-filled printable meal plans weekly or seasonally. We’ve got hundreds of the BEST family recipes and Family Meals your whole family will LOVE!

Love curry? Try one of our easy curry recipes here

Get loads more easy dinner recipes here

Browse all our meat recipes here

Love Your Leftovers!

If you’ve got leftover stew, casserole or curry then grab our BRILLIANT leftover recipe ideas here – How To Use Up Leftover Stew and turn it into something new!

If you like curry

...You might also like

Get our BEST slow cooker recipes here

• Slow Cooker Beef and Ale Stew - super easy, rich and warming beef stew - perfect with creamy mashed potatoes.

• Slow Cooker Brisket in Gravy - just the BEST way to cook mouthwateringly tender brisket - it literally falls apart!

• Easy Chicken Curry - love curry? Try our tasty easy chicken curry packed with loads of extra veggies.

• Slow Cooker Meatballs - beef meatballs in a sticky garlic and chilli sauce, perfect with rice or noodles.

Save our Easy Beef Curry Recipe for later...

If you cook it don't forget to tag us your creations on Twitter @daisiesandpieUK or Instagram @daisiesandpie

Get more delicious meal ideas and easy recipes here