Curry with meat and durian

1. Prepare the ingredients:

- wash the meat, blot it a little with a paper towel and cut into large pieces, put it in a bowl and put it aside for now;

- peel the onion and cut it coarsely;

- we also clean the garlic head, cut the cloves into several parts. Garlic can be added and more - here we focus on your taste. By the way, in the original recipe, three heads of garlic are added;

- wash, dry and coarsely cut chili peppers. We remove the seeds, but if you want a special piquancy, you can partially or completely leave them;

- a piece of ginger root is washed, cleaned and cut into circles;

- tomatoes are washed, dried and cut into quarters.

2. The ingredients are prepared, we begin the process of making curry. First, let's start with a mixture of spices:

- we put cashew nuts in a blender bowl, we also send the rest of the ingredients there (except nutmeg), after which we grind and mix everything together. You can just use a mortar and pestle;

- combine the resulting mixture with nutmeg, mix until smooth.

3. Now we prepare sambal (spicy paste):

- a frying pan with a thick bottom, or even better a cauldron, heat over medium heat together with rapeseed oil;

- when the oil warms up, put onion, garlic, ginger and chili pepper in it. Cook everything together until the onion softens and becomes slightly golden;

- put the spice mixture prepared in advance into the pan, mix and immediately add tomatoes;

- cook everything together until the tomatoes soften, then remove the pan from the heat and mix the contents until a paste forms;

- return the sambal to the fire and cook until the oil begins to separate.

4. Now we cook the curry directly:

- pour coconut milk into a frying pan with sambal, spread durian puree, mix, cook everything together until the mass thickens a little;

- put the pieces of meat in the sambal, mix well so that it is completely covered with paste;

- reduce the heat and cook over low heat under the lid for 2.5-3 hours, until the meat becomes soft and the sambal decreases in volume;

- add tamarind paste, mix.

Everything is ready! We serve curry with a side dish, for example, it goes perfectly with boiled rice, fresh vegetables and herbs.

Bon appetit!