Oven Baked Beef Panang Curry With Rice

Before you begin...

This recipe takes around 5-10 min to prep, so get your casserole dish and all your ingredients ready, then wash your fruit and veg

Note: Make sure your dish is oven-proof and safe to use on the hob. Don't have one? Start cooking in a large, wide-based pan then transfer to an oven-proof dish and cover tightly with foil

Now, let's get started!

Preheat the oven to 200°C/ 180°C (fan)/ gas 6 and boil a kettle

Heat a large, wide-based hob-safe oven-proof casserole dish with a matching lid with a drizzle of vegetable oil over a high heat

Once hot, add your diced beef and cook for 3 min or until lightly browned

Meanwhile, peel and chop your brown onion[s] into wedges

Trim, then chop your green beans in half

Peel and finely chop (or grate) your garlic

Chop your creamed coconut roughly (if required!)

Once the beef is lightly browned, reduce the heat to medium-high

Add the onion wedges with your ground cumin, ground coriander, chilli flakes (can't handle the heat? Go easy!), chopped garlic and your red Thai curry paste

Add 1 tsp [1 1/2 tsp] [2 tsp] flour and 1 tsp [1 1/2 tsp] [2 tsp] sugar and give everything a good mix up

Add most of your peanuts (save some for garnish!) with your fish sauce and the chopped creamed coconut with 350ml [450ml] [600ml] boiled water

Bring to the boil over a high heat and season with a generous pinch of salt

Cover with a lid and put the dish in the oven for an initial 50 min

Once the curry has had 25 min, reboil a kettle

Add your white long grain rice to an oven-proof dish with 300ml [390ml] [600ml] boiled water

Cover tightly with tin foil and put the dish in the oven for 30 min or until all the water is absorbed and the rice is cooked – this is your baked rice

Once the curry has had 50 min, remove the casserole dish from the oven and add the chopped green beans

Return the dish to the oven and cook, covered, for 5 min further or until the beef is cooked through and the green beans are tender – this is your oven baked beef panang curry

Roughly chop the remaining roasted peanuts