Asian Meats Recipes - Indonesian Meat Stewed in Coconut Milk (Daging Bersengek) Recipe

Ingredients

• 1lb. (500 g.) beef (cut into convenient pieces)

• 1-inch (2.5-cm.) piece laos/galangal (lightly crushed)

• 1 stalk serai/lemon grass (crushed)

• 4 daun salam/1 bay leaf

• 3 tablespoons cooking oil

• 1 1/2 cups thin santan/thin coconut milk

• 1 cup pati santan/coconut cream

• salt to taste

• 1 dessertspoon tamarind paste and 1/4 cup water, mixed & strained to extract juice

Ground Ingredients:

• 10 shallots

• 5 cloves garlic

• 4 red chilies

• 1-inch (2.5-cm.) piece kunyit/turmeric root

• 1 dessertspoon ketumbar/coriander seeds

• 1-inch (2.5-cm.) piece terasi/dried shrimp paste

• 4 buah keras/candlenuts

Serves 4

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Method:

1. Season well the meat with the ground ingre­dients, galangal, lemon grass and salam or bay leaves.

2. Heat oil and stir fry meat mixture for 5 minutes.

3. Add thin coconut milk. Cook till meat is tender. Add coconut cream and salt to taste. Stir till the oil separates.

4. Discard salam or bay leaves, galangal and lemon grass or serai.

5. Mix tamarind juice into gravy. Remove from flame.

6. Serve hot with boiled white rice, vegetables and a sambal.