Scrumptious Sunday: Beef

Jun 29, 2008 at 4:48 PM
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Scrumptious Sunday

Beef: Indonesian Beef Rendang

Beef Rendang

2 lemongrass stalks
2 large red chillies, deseeded and chopped
6 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
5cm piece of ginger, roughly chopped
1 large onion, roughly chopped
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1 tbsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
2 tbsp sunflower oil
2 cinnamon sticks
12 cloves
2 bay leaves
600ml canned coconut milk
1.5kg braising steak, such as chuck or blade, cut into 5cm pieces
1 tsp salt
Walnut-sized piece of tamarind pulp or 2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp Billington's Dark Muscovado Sugar

Remove the outer leaves from the lemongrass stalks and reserve. Roughly chop the tender core and put into a food processor with the chillies, garlic, fresh ginger, onion, ground ginger, coriander, cumin, black pepper and 2 tablespoons of water. Blend to a smooth paste.
Heat the sunflower oil in a large flameproof casserole over a medium heat. Add the cinnamon sticks and cloves and allow them to sizzle for about 1 minute. Add the spice paste and bay leaves and fry gently for 2 minutes. Add the coconut milk, 200ml water, the beef, reserved lemongrass leaves and the salt and bring to the boil.
Meanwhile, if you are using the tamarind pulp, put in a small bowl with 120ml of warm water and work through with your fingers to release the seeds. Strain the syrupy mixture into a clean bowl and discard the seeds.
Lower the heat to a simmer, add the tamarind liquid or lemon juice and muscovado sugar and leave to cook uncovered for 21/2 hours, stirring more frequently as the liquid reduces, until the sauce is well reduced and quite thick and the beef is very tender. Serve with plain rice and a cucumber, tomato, red onion and coriander salsa.

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Looks good. Shame about the beef !!!! but the ingredients do suggest it would taste delicious.

You can just change the beef to fish or chicken, Karlos. It's good, one of popular Indonesian dishes. They have quite similar dish in Malaysia and Singapore with the same name, but it's not really the same.

[this is good]

wah nampak enak begitu. will try the cinnamon sticks extra next time. never did that before.

It's a bit different from your rendang, I think? Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, Aput! :)

I just read through the mix again and most of it would work well with chicken. Lemon, Ginger, Garlic, Onion and Pepper especially. I'm not so sure about the Muscovado Sugar though, worth a try.

Just try with any sugar you have in your kitchen then, and don't forget to send me the picture once you try to make it, k? :)

I will do that.

Very interesting! I like learning more about your food culture! I'm not sure I could find all of those ingredients here-lol!

I am a little late getting over here~I had a very busy weekend. Feel free to go back to Scrumptious Sunday to visit any late posters that might have posted after you did.

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I forgot to post this at Scrumptious Sunday: I will be going out of town (Vacation-woohoo) Sunday, June 6, 2008. I will be back that following Saturday, June 12, 2008. I might be late visiting your post. For new Scrumptious Sunday players: I hope to have a blog friend help with my blog-approving comments in moderation.

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