Hi Friends!
Hope this finds you well.
Another day, another recipe share, coming from me 😊 Still on Eid celebration topic. For today's recipe, it's a beef curry dish that my family always serves whenever it's Eid celebration(s). Ita tradition for us 😊
How about you? What do you serve during Eid? Compressed rice, opor, rendang, sambal goreng, soto? 😊
Here is Rendang (beef curry), my way. Yep. There are various ways of cooking and flavoring rendang, throughout Indonesia. No one shoes fit all 😊
300 g unsweetened desiccated coconut
8.5 lbs (4 kg) beef cubes
6 kafir lime leaves
4 Indonesian bay leaves (daun salam)
3 cinnamon sticks
5 star anise
20 cloves
1/4 tsp each ground cumin, ginger, galangal, white pepper powders
2 generous pinches of fennel seeds
A bunch of curry leaf
1 piece of turmeric leaf
3 lemongrass
1 whole nutmeg, grate
1 whole know of garlic
10 bird eye chilies
1 large onion
2 tbsp water
500 ml water
3 cans coconut milk
Chicken bouillon powder, to taste
1-2 tsp dark brown sugar
A couple of hours before, or even a day before, toast dessicated coconut til browning, then dump them into a food processor. Process until oily and darkening. Store in the fridge, until ready to use
Place spices, sticks, leaves, into a pot with peanut oil
In a food processor, turn garlic, onion, bird eye chilies, and 2 tbsp of water, into smooth paste, then saute until bubbly. Dump paste into the pot.
Add in beef cubes and 500 ml water, bring to boil on medium-high heat, until water is lessen/low, then add in 2 cans of coconut milk
Lower temperature to low-medium, continue cooking, stirring now and then, until liquid is lessen
Once liquid is lessen, pour in the last coconut milk, followed with the oily dessicated coconut we did previously, stir until completely combined
Season and stir continuously. Cook until gravy is thickened, lessen, and beef tender by this time.
Ready to be served 😊
