Aromatic beef curry | Reader's Digest New Zealand

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon sunflower oil
• 1 large onion, thinly sliced
• 150 g button mushrooms, sliced
• 400 g sirloin steak, trimmed of fat and cut into thin strips
• 1 1/2 teaspoons bottled chopped ginger in oil, drained
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1/2 teaspoon dried red chilli flakes
• 2 teaspoons ground coriander
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
• 1 can chopped tomatoes, about 400 g
• 1 teaspoon cornflour mixed with 1 tablespoon water
• 300 g natural yogurt
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1 3/4 cups (125 g) baby spinach leaves
• juice of 1/2 lime
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander, plus extra leaves to garnish
• Cardamom rice
• 1 3/4 cups (350 g) basmati rice, well rinsed
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 8 whole green cardamom pods, cracked
• juice of 1/2 lemon
• salt