Beef Rendang Recipes and Cooking Tips

Ingredients :

• 600g of beef
• 6 cloves of garlic
• 10 of dried chillies
• 1 small ginger
• 1 piece turmeric(thumb size)
• 16 cloves of shallots
• 1 tablespoon of corriander seeds
• 2 stalks of lemon grass
• 4 kaffir lime leaves
• 5 slices of galangal
• 300ml of coconut milk
• 2 tablespoon of palm sugar (Gula Melaka)
• Salt to taste

Method :

• Cut beef into small desired sizes
• Chop garlic and ginger into smaller desired sizes
• Remove seed from dried chillies, rinse and soak into warm water till softened
• Cut turmeric and shallots into small pieces and grind corriander seeds finely
• Cut lemon grass sideway, cut kaffir lime leaves into small pieces
• Grind garlic, ginger, galangal, dried chillies, turmeric, shallots and kaffir lime leaves with half a cup of water into a paste
• Heat up 3 tablespoon of cooking oil
• Fry paste till fragrant
• Add in corriander seed powder and lemon grass. Then add in half of the coconut milk
• Bring to boil before added on beef and acup of water
• Boil over low flame for about 30 minutes
• Pour in all remaining coconutmilk to cook for another 20 minutes or the meat is soft and gravy is dry
• Season with palm sugar and salt
• Ready to be serve