Recipe - Curried Beef And Bananas

2 tablespoon Vegetable oil
1 Onion; chopped
1 pound Sirloin steak (or substitute
chicken); minced
3 Small; hot green chiles,
such as Serranos; seeds
and stems removed; chopped
Salt to taste
1 tablespoon Malawi curry powder (see
recipe)
1 teaspoon Freshly ground cloves
3 lg Tomatoes; chopped
3 cup Water
4 Unripe bananas; quartered
lengthwise and cut into
2inch slices

"This Tanzanian specialty has the tantalizing aroma of cloves in addition
to the curry spices. Make certain that you select green bananas for this
dish, or your curry will be overly mushy. Chicken may be substituted for
the beef and the cooking time reduced to a total of 40 minutes."

Heat the oil in a skillet and saute the onion until it is light brown,
about 5 minutes. Add the steak and saute for 1 minute, then add the chiles,
salt, Malawi Curry Powder, and cloves. Saute for 10 minutes, stirring
constantly.

Add the tomatoes and the water and simmer, uncovered, for 40 minutes,
stirring occasionally. The sauce should be reduced considerably. Add the
bananas and cook until both the meat and the bananas are tender, 20 minutes
or more. Serve with white rice, cut or sliced up tomatoes, and curry condiments.

Notes: My apologies for not posting this recipe earlier; but I was at work
when the thread regarding chiles and bananas appeared, and didn't have
access to the book from which it comes. That book is "A World of Curries",
by Dave DeWitt and Arthur Pais (ISBN 0316182249), and is published by
Little, Brown & Company. Richard Strayer Los Angeles, CA, USA

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