Brown your beef in a shallow frying pan and set aside. With the same vegetable oil cook your onion and ginger garlic paste and set aside too.

Melt your butter on low heat

Add in your flour and sugar

Cook until it makes a nice thick paste. If it's too thick then you can dilute with a tbsp of water. It should be of the consistency of porridge. It's called roux

In a separate saucepot add in your onion mixture, roux, soy sauce, vinegar and beer and bring to a boil then simmer.

Add in your beef and simmer till the stew thickens to nice gravy

Once ready...season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot with your best accompaniment preferably rice or potatoes.

For your hasselback potatoes, bring your peeled potatoes to a boil in salted water until well cooked. Set aside to cool.

Place one potato after the other on a wooden spoon and make slits across the potatoes. The wooden spoon prevents you from cutting the potatoes all the way through

Your slit potatoes should resemble these...

Deep fry in hot vegetable oil till golden and crispy.

Once ready toss in garlic powder salt and cayenne mixture till evenly coated. Enjoy.