Have you ever tried a Sri Lankan style deviled beef recipe at home? If not, this is the time to give it a try. Today, I am going to show you the best way to make a deviled beef recipe in Sri Lankan style.
Deviled beef is one of the most favorite red meat dishes among Sri Lankans.
You can easily find this dish in every Sri Lankan restuarants, but you can easily prepare deviled beef in your kitchen.
99% of the people make this dish with the tomatoes, but I am going to show you this recipe without tomatoes.
Alright, let’s see how to prepare a Sri Lankan style delicious deviled beef recipe without tomatoes.
My Favorite Combos
1. This Recipe + Chicken Fried Rice + Beef Curry
2. This Recipe + Vegetable Noodle + Beef Stew
3. This Recipe + Vegetable Rotti
Tasty Deviled Beef Recipe
Ingredients
- Beef – 500g
- Garlic cloves – 8 to 10
- Ginger – Small piece (about the size of two garlic cloves)
- Chili powder – 1 teaspoon
- Turmeric powder – ¼ teaspoon
- Sugar – ¼ teaspoon
- Ordinary vinegar – 3 tablespoons
- Red chili flakes – 1 tablespoon
- Onions – 150g to 200g
- Banana pepper – 30g
- Tomato sauce – 4 or 5 tablespoons
- Lime – ½
- Water – As you need (I used 130ml)
- Salt – As you need
- Cooking oil – As you need
Instructions
1. Grind ginger and garlic to a smooth paste as shown in the picture below. Also, get ready with vinegar, red chili powder, turmeric powder, sugar, salt, and water.
2. Cut the onions into medium-sized pieces and slice the banana peppers as shown in the picture below.
3. Get ready with tomato sauce, red chili flakes, and lime.
4. Rince the beef and cut it into large chunks. Add ginger-garlic paste, vinegar, turmeric powder, red chili powder, sugar, salt, and water. Mix them well.
5. Cook covered under the high flame until all the water evaporates. In a halfway through open the lid and give a stir to avoid burning. Once done, let them cool down to room temperature.
6. Now cut each beef chunks into thin slices as shown in the picture below.
7. Heat the oil in a deep fry pan and fry the beef slices until they turn to brown color as shown in the picture below. Don’t fry them for too long or you will lose the softness of the beef.
8. Now heat the cooking oil in a wok and add fried beef, onions, and banana peppers together. Fry them under medium flame for two minutes. Then, add the red chili flakes. Stir and fry them for another two minutes under low flame.
9. Finally, add the tomato sauce and mix under low flame for about a minute. Then switch off the flame and add lime juice. Taste and adjust salt if needed. Give one last good mix.
10. This is how to make the best deviled beef recipe at home. Serve and enjoy this delicious Sri Lankan style deviled beef.
Notes
1. I instantly made ginger and garlic paste. If it is hard, use the bottled one.
2. If you don’t like spiciness, reduce the amount of chili flakes according to your taste.
Printable Recipe Card
- Beef - 500g
- Garlic cloves - 8 to 10
- Ginger - Small piece (about the size of two garlic cloves)
- Chili powder - 1 teaspoon
- Turmeric powder - ¼ teaspoon
- Sugar - ¼ teaspoon
- Ordinary vinegar - 3 tablespoons
- Red chili flakes - 1 tablespoon
- Onions - 150g to 200g
- Banana pepper - 30g
- Tomato sauce - 4 or 5 tablespoons
- Lime - ½
- Water - As you need (I used 130ml)
- Salt - As you need
- Cooking oil - As you need
- Grind ginger and garlic to a smooth paste. Also, get ready with vinegar, red chili powder, turmeric powder, sugar, salt, and water.
- Cut the onions into medium-sized pieces and slice the banana peppers.
- Get ready with tomato sauce, red chili flakes, and lime.
- Rince the beef and cut it into large chunks. Add ginger-garlic paste, vinegar, turmeric powder, red chili powder, sugar, salt, and water. Mix them well.
- Cook covered under the high flame until all the water evaporates. In a halfway through open the lid and give a stir to avoid burning. Once done, let them cool down to room temperature.
- Now cut each beef chunks into thin slices.
- Heat the oil in a deep fry pan and fry the beef slices until they turn to brown color. Don't fry them for too long or you will lose the softness of the beef.
- Now heat the cooking oil in a wok and add fried beef, onions, and banana peppers together. Fry them under medium flame for two minutes. Then, add the red chili flakes. Stir and fry them for another two minutes under low flame.
- Finally, add the tomato sauce and mix under low flame for about a minute. Then switch off the flame and add lime juice. Taste and adjust salt if needed. Give one last good mix.
- This is how to make the best deviled beef recipe at home. Serve and enjoy this delicious Sri Lankan style deviled beef.
2. If you don't like spiciness, reduce the amount of chili flakes according to your taste.
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This is how to make the Sri Lankan style delicious deviled beef recipe at home. I hope you liked this tasty beef dish. When you have all the ingredients give it a try, I am sure you will like it, especially the kids.
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I tried and came out very well. Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe madam.
Hi,
I love to make this dish. But I am really worrying to add Ajinomoto. Is that really essential to this beef devil?
Awesome.
The taste is unbelievable