Masala beef steaks (cheap cut)

I try to cook something different on hubby's day off, despite him being a true Bangladeshi and preferring his rice and curry. This week i did his favourite meat which is beef, but used a cheap cut steak and marinated them for 48 hours in a thick yoghurt and spice marinade before baking them in a hot oven.

Ingredients:

800g Beef topside cut into thin steaks
250g Greek yoghurt
2 tbsp white vinegar
2 tbsp. Ginger and garlic paste
1 tbsp. Crushed Kasuri methi
1.5 tbsp. Salt
1 tbsp. Tandoori masala
1 tsp. Mint sauce
1/4 tsp. Turmeric powder
3/4 tsp. Garam Masala powder
1 tsp. Coriander powder
1 tsp. Cumin powder
1 tsp. Extra hot chilli powder
2 tsp. Hot Madras curry powder
2 tsp. Kashmiri red chilli powder
3 tbsp. Sunflower oil

1 tbsp. Melted butter for basting

In a large bowl, mix together all the above ingredients, apart from the beef and the butter.

After washing your beef steaks, place them in the marinade and massage the marinade into the beef well. Cover the bowl with a cling film and put into the fridge for a minimum of 6 hours. I left the beef for 48 hours as the longer a meat has for marination, the better it is flavoured.

Pre heat your oven to 200°C. Bring the beef out and leave for 30 minutes for the meat to come to room temperature. Line a baking tray with a rack with foil and brush on some butter. Place your beef out on the rack and once oven has pre heated pop in for 15 minutes.

During the 15 minutes, take the meat out once and brush with melted butter. After 15 minutes, take out the meat and turn it over. Again during that cookung process, take the meat out and baste with butter again. Do this until beef is cooked to your liking. We prefer well done, so beef was in the oven for about 45 minutes.

Serve as you wish. We were having a vegetable couscous, so i cut the beef into strips and served it on the couscous.

N.B. If i were to cook this again, i would get a large piece of the beef and cut it into thin steaks myself as the butcher did it too thick for me. The thinner the steaks are, the less cooking time they would need.

I hope you guys enjoy!

Yaz 💖