| Preparation time: 3 hrs. | Serves 10 persons | | | | 1/2 tsp nutmeg and mace powder |
| This vegetable beef stew is traditionally called | | | | 1/2 cup mustard oil |
| Shab-daig in South Asian cuisine, its taste would | | | | 6 cup water or as required |
| greatly varies with cooking time because it takes | | | | Procedure: |
| time to prepare and always cook on low heat if it is | | | | 1. Take a wide deep sauce pan and add all the |
| cooked on high heat then its taste will not be good. | | | | ingredients except turnips and onions. |
| So its better to cook it overnight on slow heat. It is | | | | 2. Add enough water in the pan so that all the beef |
| usually served with simple fried rice or paratha. | | | | pieces would completely dip in water. |
| Ingredients: | | | | 3. Now at first cook the above beef stuff on high |
| 1 kg beef pieces (with little fats) | | | | flame until it starts to boil and then let it cook on |
| 1 kg small turnips (peel) | | | | very low heat for 2-3 hours until beef become |
| 1 kg small onions (remove tips and skin only) | | | | tender. |
| 2 bunch of cloves (peel) | | | | 4. After that add onions and turnips to the stew in |
| 2 inch ginger piece (cut into small pieces) | | | | layer form and shake the pan in circular direction so |
| 8-10 small round dry red peppers | | | | that the stew soup come on top of the vegetables. |
| 6-8 cloves | | | | Don't stir ladle or spoon in the stew and let it cook |
| 4 green cardamoms | | | | for 30-40 mins so that onions and turnips would |
| 2 black cardamoms | | | | become completely tender. |
| 3 cinnamon sticks | | | | Serving: |
| Salt to taste | | | | To take out this vegetable beef stew in bowl, |
| 1/2 tbsp red pepper powder | | | | carefully move the ladle in the pan and at first take |
| 1 tbsp cumin seeds | | | | out beef pieces, then turnips and onions and in the |
| 1 tbsp hot mix spice powder (garam masala) | | | | end pour the stew soup. In this way th vegetables |
| 300 gm yogurt | | | | would not break and will look good in presentation. |