Asian Meats Recipes - Indonesian Meat Wrapped in Banana Leaves (Bungkusan Daging) Recipe

Ingredients

• 1lb. (500 g.) minced meat

• 3/4 cup pati santan/coconut cream mixed with 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 2 eggs, salt and pepper, to taste beaten together

• steamed banana leaves/daun pisang (to wrap)

• a few daun salam/bay leaves

• daun pandan/Screw pine leaves (cut into small squares)

Ground Ingredients:

• 4 shallots

• 2 cloves garlic

• 2 red chilies

• 2 green chilies

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

• 3 buah keras/candlenuts

• 1 teaspoon ketumbar/ground coriander

• 1/4 teaspoon jintan putih/white cummin

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Serves 6

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Method:

1. Dry fried the candlenuts, ground coriander, white cumin and salt and ground.

2. Mix minced meat with the ground ingredients and coconut cream. Bind mixture with beaten egg.

3. Spread a little of the mixture on pieces of banana leaf. Place a daun salam on this, then divide the rest of the mixture equally into each pack.

4. Top mixture with a piece of screw pine leaf. Wrap neatly and secure with toothpicks.

5. Steam for 20 minutes. Serve unwrapped, with chili and tomato sauce.