Indonesian Recipes (Bali, Java) - Beef with Coriander Seeds (Daging Bumbu Dendeng) Recipe

Ingredients

• 500 g/18 oz beef fillet or rump pepper 

For the marinade:

• 3 doves garlic

• 1 piece galangal root, 2 cm/3/4 in long

• 1 tablespoon palm sugar (or brown sugar)

• 1 tablespoon groundnut oil

• 1 tablespoon coarse ground coriander oil for frying 

For the sauce:

• 1 tablespoon soy sauce

• 1 tablespoon kecap manis (sweet soy sauce)

• 1 teaspoon Sambal ulek (refer recipe)

• juice of 1/2 lemon

• 1 tablespoon tamarind mousse

Serves 4-6

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Method:

1. Cut the beef into very thin slices about 2 mm/3/32 in thick (slightly thicker than for capriccio).

2. It is best to freeze the meat first because this makes it much easier to cut into thin slices.

3. Crush the garlic, grate the galangal root and mix with the sugar, groundnut oil and coriander. Put the beef slices in this mixture and turn them over so that are thoroughly coated. Leave to stand for 3 hours.

4. Heat the oil in a large pan. Fry the slices one by one very briefly on both sides, tossing the pan, and season with pepper.

5. Arrange the meat on plates, stir the ingredients for the sauce briefly into the remaining cooking juices and pour over the meat.

6. The dish goes very well with Nasi goreng (refer reicpe).