Mixed Meat Stew Ingredients
250 gms boneless pork
250 gms beef
200 gms boneless chicken
150 gms skinless goa sausage
2 big onions chopped fine
2 big tomato chopped fine
6 flakes garlic sliced fine
1 inch piece ginger sliced fine
5 pepper corns
5 cloves
2 pieces cinnamon (1 inch)
1 carrot
1/2 cup green peas
1/2 cup elbow macaroni (boiled)
1 big potato cut into medium pieces
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 slit green chili
Method
- chopped beef
- Cut and wash the meat seperately, you can start off with the beef, as it would take the longest time required, we would cook it first.
- add salt and cook the beef
- Apply Salt and add the beef into the pressure cooker with some water to the pressure cooker, do not close the cooker. While this is on the fire you can chop the other meats.
- chop the remaining meat
- chopped meat for the stew
- cook the beef
- Chop the onions and tomatoes and add more than half of it to the beef along with some water.
- add chopped tomato onions to beef
- Now you can close the cooker and in the meantime, chop some of the garlic and ginger.
- juliennes of garlice and ginger
- If you like you can pound the rest of it.
- pound the garlic and ginger
- Open up the pressure cooker in a bit and seperate the beef stock from the rest.
- open up the cooker
- seperate the stock
- Now you can start cooking the other meats, add the chicken.
- add the chicken
- Add the chopped pork pieces.
- add the pork pieces
- Add the remaining vegetables and its time to add the spices.
- add the remaining vegetables
- Add the pieces of Cinnamon
- add cinnamon
- Add the Peppers and Cloves
- add pepper cloves
- Then add the Cardamom pods
- add some elaichi
- Once all the ingredients are added pressure cook one more time.
- all the goan stew ingredients added
- Add the amount of chillies you need, keep in mind the goa sausage meat too will have some spice
- add the sliced green chillies
- Add the sausage meat and stir up the dish.
- add the sausage meat
- As you can see the sausage meat colour has spread to the other meats as well. This is what you would use as a stuffing for Pastelão
- mix it up well
- Add the potatoes and carrots
- add the potatoes carrot
- Add the beef stock we had kept aside earlier along with the macaroni, the macaroni absorbs quite a bit of the flavour of the dish, if you not too fond of macaroni, you can skip this as well.
- add the peas beef stock macaroni
- Mix it up again and put it in the pressure cooker once more.
- stir the dish again
- pressure cook the mixed meat stew
- Add the broccoli
- Add some vinegar and salt as per your taste and finally the mixed meat stew is ready!
- add vinegar and salt to taste
- Enjoy you goan meat stew piping hot with some rice.
- mixed meat stew
goan meat stew with rice
The steps for the alternate method are ~
In the cooker add a little oil; drop in the whole spices and sauté onion, tomato, ginger and garlic.
Add only beef, stir fry till onions are brown and add 2 to 3 cups of water and cook the beef till nearly done.
Now add the other meats, add a little more water and cook till meats are nearly done.
Now add vegetables, slit green chili and cooked till done. Finally add the boiled macaroni with 3 to 4 tablespoon milk (optional) and salt to taste.
goan meat stew pastelao
Pastelão can also be made using a similar process all you need to do This dish can be turned into a pie by drying up the above meat mixture, putting it into a baking dish,
topping it with bread crumbs, a sprinkling of sugar, dotting with butter and covering with a sheet of flaky pastry and then baked.
