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

Grill pitas until spotty brown and warm, a minute or so per side. I have been making this recipe for about a year. Great change of pace for summer BBQ instead of boring beef burgers. Try a Beef Shawarma Pita with Creamy Tahini Dipping Sauce.

Curried beef pitas with cucumber sauce instructions

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. Lamb Pitas with Cucumbers and Yogurt Saucechowhound.com. Beef Kebabs with Cucumber Yogurt SauceKeto Vale. Meatballs With Cucumber Sauce on FlatbreadsBetter Homes and Gardens.