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Our best beef curry recipes

Cook them low, cook them slow. These beef curries are a whole world of flavour.
Two bowls with slow-cooked beef rendang curry, on a golden square tray with mustard-yellow and blue napkins.

Tony Tan's beef rendang

Photo: John Paul Urizar

There are worse ways to spend your time than making a slow-cooked beef curry. Head to O Tama Carey’s black-braised brisket for a rich Sri Lankan-style curry that’s dark and brooding with blackened spices and tamarind. For old-school British charm, whip up the beef sausage curry with coconut rice. As for the title of the one beef curry to rule them all, it’s a tight contest between Indonesia’s beef rendang and Thailand’s beef and potato Massaman curry. Which curry will win? There’s only one way to find out.

Here are our best recipes for beef curry.

Beef and potato Massaman curry
Photo: William Meppem

Beef and potato Massaman curry

Photo: Ben Dearnley

O Tama Carey’s black braised brisket

Photo: William Meppem

Berbere beef stew and spiced silverbeet

Photo: Chris Chen

Beef sausage curry with coconut rice

Coconut curried beef
Photo: Ian Wallace

Coconut curried beef

Photo: Chris Chen

Martin Boetz’s red curry of beef with green peppercorns, wild ginger and holy basil

Two bowls with slow-cooked beef rendang curry, on a golden square tray with mustard-yellow and blue napkins.
Photo: John Paul Urizar

Tony Tan’s beef rendang

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