Cooking With Beer – Oskar Blues Pilsner Curry
Cooking With Beer – Oskar Blues Pilsner Curry
(Courtesy Oskar Blues Brewery)
Festive foods take on new meaning when made with serious beer. And who doesn’t like a hot spicy curry made with the right beer?
This tasty recipe comes our way from the Oskar Blues Brewery in Longmont, Colorado, but it originated at Beer Belly, an Instagram site that knows what it’s doing.
And this delicious dish is made using Mama’s Little Yella Pils a 4.7% ABV Bohemian Pilsner built a sturdy foundation of pilsner and honey malt, that is then then hopped with Saaz and Aramis hops.
This is a great recipe to customize – use your choice of roasted vegetables, fish, you name it.
So let’s do this!
Oskar Blues Little Yella Curry
Ingredients
4 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsp black mustard seeds
1 tsp fenugreek seeds
3 green chilies de-seeded and thinly sliced
1 tbsp ginger, finely grated
1/2 cup fresh curry leaves, torn into pieces*
2 onions, peeled and finely chopped
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp turmeric
12 oz Mama’s Little Yella Pils
14 oz can diced tomatoes, unsalted
14 oz can coconut milk
4 boneless skinless chicken thighs, sliced into small pieces
1 tablespoon ground coriander
kosher salt
Directions
- Heat oil in a large pan over medium heat. Add mustard seeds. Once seeds start to pop, add fenugreek, chilies, curry leaves and ginger. Stir and cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Add onions and a pinch of kosher salt. Stir and scrape up any browned bits on the bottom of the pan. Cook until onions are soft and light brown, about 5 minutes. Add Mama’s Little Yella Pils, tomatoes and coconut milk. Stir, cover, lower heat and simmer for 15 minutes
- Meanwhile, toss chicken, coriander, and kosher salt to season. Heat a frying pan over medium-high heat and add 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Add chicken and cook, tossing occasionally, until nicely browned on all sides, about 5-7 minutes.
- Add chicken to curry, stir, cover and cook for 10 minutes. Serve with steamed rice and/or warm flatbread.
* Note: fresh curry leaves are fragrant and super delicious. Indian grocery stores carry them, or you can also easily find them online. If you’re not about that leaf life, add 2 teaspoons of curry powder with the turmeric and chili powder. It won’t be quite the same, but it’ll still titillate the taste buds.
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