LeBlanc Curry

 




Ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp veg oil
  • 2 onions
  • 1 carrot
  • 1/2 apple
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 2 cm piece ginger (weird way of measuring, I wound up with about a shotglass worth of grated ginger and it worked fine)
  • 500 g (1.1 pound) stewing beef, cubed
  • 4 tbsp all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 2 tsp ground coriander
  • 2 tsp ground turmeric
  • 1 tsp ground cardamom
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp hot chili powder
  • 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp ground cloves
  • 1/4 tsp black pepper
  • 200 ml (0.84 cups) red wine
  • 600 ml (2.53 cups) beef stock
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 10 g (1 tbsp) chocolate
  • 1 tsp instant coffee
  • 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 75 g (1/4 cup) plain yogurt
  • 1 tbsp honey 
  • 10 g (1 tbsp) butter

You will need: 3 frying pans, a saucepan, measuring cups and spoons, and something to stir with

Directions:

Step 1: Prep

  1. Peel and dice 2 onions
  2. Grate 1 carrot, 1/2 apple, 2 cm piece ginger
  3. Mince 2 cloves garlic
  4. If beef isn't pre-cubed, cut pieces into bite sizes
  5. Prepare spice mix in bowl. Put together 2 tsp cumin, 2 tsp coriander, 2 tsp turmeric, 1 tsp cardamom, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 hot chili powder, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, 1/4 tsp cloves, 1/4 black pepper
Step 2: Onion Mix

(While onion mix is cooking, you can begin working on the beef)
  1. Heat 1 tbsp veg oil in frying pan
  2. Put diced onions into pan on low heat until softened, approx 10 min
  3. Increase heat to medium, stirring occasionally, until the onions begin to look golden
  4. Mix in garlic, ginger, apple, and carrot
  5. Cook for 2 min and remove from heat
Step 3: The Beef

  1. Cook beef in separate frying pan, turning regularly so that the sides of each piece are browned but not cooked through. Remove from heat
Step 4: Spice Mix

  1. Heat separate frying pan to medium and add 4 tbsp all-purpose flour
  2. Cook until flour is fragrant and starting to turn gold
  3. Add 9-spice mix created in the "Prep" step
  4. Cook for about 2 min and remove from heat
Step 5: Combine

  1. Put onion mix, beef, and spice mix into sauce pan, cooking over medium heat, stirring until combined
  2. Add 200 ml (0.84 cups) red wine, 600 ml (2.53 cups) beef stock, and 1 bay leaf. Stir
  3. Bring to light boil, then lower temp to just low enough to maintain light boil
  4. Cover and let simmer for 90 minutes to 2 hours
Step 6: Finish

  1. Add 1 tsp instant coffee, 1 tbsp chocolate, 1/4 cup plain yogurt,1 tbsp honey, and 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  2. Stir and simmer uncovered for 15 min
  3. Remove from heat, stir in 1 tbsp butter until melted
Pair with rice.

Yield: Enough to to feed two adults with a little left over


Description:

Well, this is easily the most intricate recipe I've put on this blog so far.

It's based on a videogame, Persona 5. It's about a high school student on parole, relocated and living with a foster father. After gaining access to another world, he learns that he can force repentance from abusive authority figures through a combination of infiltrating "palaces" in the other world and by gaining power through "social links" that are accessed by people who embody the traits of the Major Arcana in tarot. I like the game, but it's caused a lot of people to think they know tarot, just because they've played this game. Sick of hearing people smugly refer to The Fool as "The Trump Card".

Anyway, the main character lives in the attic of his father, Sojiro Sakura's restaurant, named Cafe LeBlanc. There are two specialties at this store: coffee and curry. I guess they were going for a theme of aromatics.

So, a good while after the game was released, the producers finally gave us the recipe for Sojiro's famous curry, and this is it. I can only wonder, if one of the secret ingredients to his curry was coffee, perhaps one of the secrets to his coffee is curry?

It's been received really well. My mother and brother made the first batch, and sent me home with some to give to Lee-Anne. I made the second batch, and she suggested I might make it for her parents sometime. Which means it's got to be one of the best things I've made.

The source I linked is very good and descriptive, but I moved mixing the 9-spice mix into the "Prep" step instead of the "Spice Mix" step where they had it, because I figured it's easiest that way.

Use your own judgement when it comes to the fruits and veg, since they're not uniform in size. For example, I had small apples and carrots, so I grated 2 carrots instead of 1, and I used 3/4 of an apple instead of 1/2.

2 cm piece of ginger is a really weird way of measuring, since the mass of ginger is not only determined by length. I grated enough to nearly fill a shot glass.

I used the source's plating suggestion. It does look nice, but it's a little rice-heavy.

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