Beef Rendang – Hairy Bikers Style |
- 2 lemongrass stalks
- 2 red onions, quartered
- 4 garlic cloves
- Thumb sized piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 tbsp galangal paste
- 2 plump red chillies roughly chopped
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tbsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp tumeric
- 1 tbsp soft brown sugar
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 5 curry leaves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 tin coconut milk
- 200ml water
- 1 tsp tamarind paste
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 kilo beef steak cut into bite sized chunks (stewing or braising)
- Big pinch of sea salt
Method:
Peel off the dry outer layers of each lemongrass stalk and
slice the inner white part into 1cm pieces.
Place them into a food processor, add the onions, garlic, ginger,
galangal and chillies and blend to make as fine a paste as possible. You will need to push the mixture down a good
few times to ensure everything gets a good blitz, word of caution, don’t breath
in deeply when doing this as the fragrance will knock you for six!
Heat the vegetable oil in a large flameproof casserole dish
and fry the onion paste gently for around 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Add the cumin, coriander and turmeric, mix
well and cook for a further 2 minutes.
Add the beef to the casserole dish and toss it with the
onion paste and spices. Cook for 5 minutes,
stirring constantly until the meat is lightly coloured all over. Pour in the coconut milk, add the water,
curry leaves, cinnamon stick, sugar, tamarind paste, soy sauce and salt. Place a lid on the casserole dish and cook in
a preheated over at 160 degrees for around 3 hours or until the meat is very
tender, you will need to give a good stir on the hour and also just to check it
isn’t drying out.
By the end of the
cooking process you should be left with a thick, rich sauce.
It is best to make the curry the day before you eat it as
the flavours will enhance the dish even more.
If you are a spice fiend then add as much fresh chilli as you can take,
I did find the two chillies (including the seeds) gave this quite a good kick
of heat.
I served this with basmati
rice, cucumber and mint raita, and a tomato, onion and coriander chutney with
some poppadoms.
Whilst it may seem like a lot of ingredients most of the dry
ingredients people will have in their store cupboard and any additional
ingredients required shouldn’t work out too costly and will keep in the fridge
for a while once opened.
We both loved this dish, perfect for the weekend and with
enough leftover for another dish I will be making later in the week,, watch
this space for an Italian dish with an Indian twist!
Recipe
adapted from The Hairy Bikers – Great Curries
My favourite Indonesian meal ... spicy sublime !
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful! Will be making again
ReplyDeleteWorked perfectly!!
ReplyDeleteHave made this on quite a few occasions. Absolutely lovely
ReplyDeleteAdded 2 tbsp of toasted dessicated coconut....dreamy!!
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