Recipe: Perfect Curried beef pitas with cucumber sauce

Curried beef pitas with cucumber sauce. Curried Beef Pitas with Cucumber Sauce. A good friend gave me this recipe when I first got married. I was a bit apprehensive to try it since the ingredients weren't that familiar to me, but, years later, it's now one of our family favorites. —Shannon Koene, Blacksburg, Virginia.

Best when marinated and grilled or sliced thin and stir-fried. Curried beef & chicken in a pita with cucumber sauce? In this flavorful dish, warm pitas are filled with sweet sautéed onion and bites of chicken coated with warming vadouvan curry powder, which finds cooling contrast from a layer of creamy cucumber It's the perfect accompaniment to our refreshing side of crisp cabbage dressed with sweet chili sauce. You can have Curried beef pitas with cucumber sauce using 17 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Curried beef pitas with cucumber sauce

1. Prepare 1 cup of sour cream(not a fan of yogurt).
2. It's 1 cup of fine diced peeled cucumber.
3. It's 1 tbsp of fresh minced mint.
4. It's 1 tbsp of fresh chopped dill.
5. It's 2 of large garlic cloves pressed.
6. It's of Justice of 1 lemon(or to taste).
7. You need to taste of Salt.
8. Prepare 1 lb of lean ground beef or lamb.
9. You need 1 of small onion fine diced.
10. It's 1 of medium golden delicious apple fine chopped (wait to chop it before it goes in the beef mixture).
11. You need 1/2 cup of raisins.
12. It's 2 tbsp of curry powder.
13. You need 1 tbsp of brown sugar.
14. You need to taste of Salt.
15. It's 1 tsp of cayenne (optional).
16. It's 4 tbsp of butter.
17. You need Pack of pita, but I use the new half pita pockets.

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Curried beef pitas with cucumber sauce step by step

1. Mix the first 7 ingredient and set in the fridge so the flavors marry.
2. Add the onion and ground beef to a skillet until the beef is cooked through. Add the apples, raisin, curry powder, brown sugar, 4 tbsp of butter and salt and cook until the apple are soft.

My boys love this sandwich and request it at least once a week! If you're looking for the perfect cucumber yogurt dip to accompany this try my Lebanese laban cucumber sauce. Greek Pitas with Minted Cucumber Sauce. Another Dim Sum Recipe, "Curry Beef Triangles with Cucumber Yogurt Sauce 咖哩牛肉角" by youcancookgourmet.com with Joyce Ho. Transfer patties to a broiling pan.