Beef Soup With Chilies and Tamarind Recipe - Daging Belacang

                            RECIPES OF INDONESIA

An excellent recipe to showcase how to deal with tough cuts of beef. This soup recipe from Timor in eastern Indonesia has a sweet sourish taste to it.

Ingredients :

1 kg

1/2 tsp

3/4 tbsp

2 pieces

2 pieces

5 pieces

2 cloves

1 tsp

1 tbsp

3 tbsp

2 liters

Top round beef, in 1 piece

Dried shrimp paste, toasted

Palm sugar, chopped

Red chilies, deseeded and sliced in fine strips

Spring onions (scallions) cut in 2.5 cm lengths

Shallots, peeled and sliced

Garlic, peeled and sliced

Sweet soy sauce

Tamarind juice

Cooking oil

Water

Salt to taste

• In a wok or pan, add water and bring water to a boil, then put in the beef let simmer until half cooked, reserving the stock.
• Cut beef into 2 cm cubes, then saute them in 2 tablespoons of oil, and set aside.
• Grind or blend the shallots, garlic, shrimp paste and palm sugar.
• Saute the mixture in 1 tablespoon of oil until fragrant.
• Add the beef and sweet soy sauce and saute for another minute or so, then pour in the reserved beef stock, tamarind juice and salt. Allow to simmer until beef is tender.
• Garnish with chilies and spring onions.