Slow cooked beef in home made yoghurt

I remember I said I would post more on the yoghurt I made. So if you missed it refer to the previous post on how to make home made yoghurt اللبن الرائب Laban Zabadi.

My youngest son had some of the plain home made yoghurt I made and loved it – which made me feel pretty happy.  Nothing like the approval of a 1 year old!  I couldn’t wait to try something new with the yoghurt and I was really drawn to cooking trying it in a main dish. So even though this is not a traditional Egyptian dish I thought I would still let you know how it went.

I had some cubed beef which I thawed out and decide to slow cook with the yoghurt.  My plan was to put it together in the morning so it was ready by dinner time…too easy.

Here is the recipe I followed:

Heat a little oil in a pot and fry off a chopped onion.   Add 500g cubed meat then brown it for 10 minutes.  I add 1 ½ tomatoes diced (left half a tomato for the kids’ lunch since there were only 2 left in the fridge) along with 1 teaspoon seasoned salt (Vegeta), ¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder and ¼ teaspoon pepper.

Give it a stir and leave it a few minutes then add 1 tablespoon fresh thyme (1 teaspoon dried thyme) and cover it with 2 cups / 500 ml of the yoghurt into which I added 1 tablespoon of plain flour to use as a thickening agent.  Place the lid on top and leave it for 7 hours.   Voilà !! I served this over rice.

Wow, so tasty and the meat was very tender.  I liked it and decided this was a success and the boys ate it without complaint too.  What I wasn’t expecting was all the compliments from hubby.  🙂