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Thai Massaman Curry – Slow-Cooked Beef with Potatoes and Peanuts
Rich, mild Thai curry with fall-apart beef, potatoes and roasted peanuts in a fragrant coconut sauce.
⏱ 140 min🔥 580 kcalMedium
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Thai Beef Recipes
7 recipes using beef — Pad thai, green curry, tom yum — aromatic and bold.
These 7 thai beef recipes are ready in about 88 minutes on average, with 540–720 kcal per serving, and 14% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
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How Thai cuisine cooks with beef
Thai cooking chases the balance of hot, sour, salty and sweet in every dish — fresh, aromatic and unafraid of chilli. When Thai cooks work with beef, they reach for fish sauce, lime, lemongrass, galangal, Thai chilli and palm sugar, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are frying, simmering, searing and stir-frying.
A rich, deeply savoury red meat that rewards both fast, hot searing and long, slow braising depending on the cut. In this collection it's most often cooked with fish sauce, massaman curry paste, tamarind paste, palm sugar, coconut milk and roasted peanuts. The dishes here span thai classics ready in as little as 23 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Thai Massaman Curry – Slow-Cooked Beef with Potatoes and Peanuts is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 26,800 ratings.
7 Thai Beef Recipes
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Pad See Ew
Wide rice noodles stir-fried with Chinese broccoli, egg and your choice of protein in a rich sweet-savoury soy sauce.
⏱ 27 min🔥 540 kcalMedium
★4.7(1,820)
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Pad See Ew — Jet Tila-Inspired
Wide rice noodles stir-fried with Chinese broccoli, soy sauce and egg — Bangkok's most beloved street wok dish.
⏱ 23 min🔥 612 kcalEasy
★4.8(924)
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Massaman Curry
Rich, mildly spiced Thai curry with beef, potatoes, peanuts, and warming spices — comfort in a bowl.
⏱ 110 min🔥 580 kcalMedium
★4.9(3,120)
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Massaman Beef Curry (Thai Slow-Cooked Curry)
Thailand's richest curry — chunks of slow-braised beef in a fragrant coconut-peanut sauce with potatoes, onion and warm spices like cardamom and cinnamon.
⏱ 155 min🔥 720 kcalMedium
★4.9(1,860)
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Pad Kee Mao (Thai Drunken Noodles)
Wide rice noodles stir-fried hard and fast with chile, garlic, Thai basil and a punchy soy-oyster sauce — Thailand's late-night, wake-the-dead noodle dish.
⏱ 23 min🔥 720 kcalMedium
★4.8(1,320)
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Thai Massaman Beef Braise
Beef chuck slowly braised in a warmly spiced massaman curry paste with potatoes and peanuts until fork-tender.
⏱ 140 min🔥 540 kcalMedium
★4.3(43)
Choosing & preparing beef
How to choose
Tender cuts (sirloin, ribeye) suit quick cooking; tougher, collagen-rich cuts (chuck, brisket, shin) are built for stews and braises. Look for bright-red colour and fine marbling.
Prep & storage
Season generously and let steaks come to room temperature before searing. Rest cooked beef 5–10 minutes so the juices redistribute; slice against the grain to keep it tender.
When is it done?
Steaks: 52°C / 125°F for rare up to 71°C / 160°F for well done. Ground beef should always reach 71°C / 160°F.
Nutrition
An excellent source of complete protein, iron, zinc and vitamin B12; leaner cuts keep saturated fat in check.
Classic flavour partners: onion, garlic, red wine, black pepper, mushrooms, rosemary
Thai Beef Recipes — FAQ
How long do Thai beef recipes take to make?
Most of these 7 Thai beef recipes are ready in around 88 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Pad See Ew — Jet Tila-Inspired, takes about 23 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 155 minutes.
How many calories are in Thai beef dishes?
Across this collection they range from about 540 to 720 kcal per serving, averaging 613 kcal — Pad See Ew is the lightest option at 540 kcal.
What is the easiest Thai beef recipe for beginners?
Pad See Ew — Jet Tila-Inspired is a great place to start — it's rated easy and comes together in about 23 minutes. 14% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
What goes well with beef in Thai cooking?
In these recipes, beef is most often paired with fish sauce, massaman curry paste, tamarind paste, palm sugar, coconut milk and roasted peanuts. Thai kitchens also lean on fish sauce, lime, lemongrass, galangal, Thai chilli and palm sugar.
How do I know when beef is properly cooked?
Steaks: 52°C / 125°F for rare up to 71°C / 160°F for well done. Ground beef should always reach 71°C / 160°F.
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