Daging Bumbu Bali - Indonesian Meat-dish

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb lean stewing beef, cut in chunks
• 2 medium onions, chopped
• 2 tablespoons sambal oelek
• 3 -4 birds eye chiles
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 teaspoon shrimp paste
• 4 kaffir lime leaves
• 3 bay leaves
• 1/2 cup ketjap manis (sweet soja sauce)
• 1/3 cup oil (for frying)
• vinegar
• salt
• sugar

Recipe

• 1 add enough water to the beef to cover, bring very slowly to a simmer and cook until done, (as with making any stock, this can take a few hours).
• 2 put in the food processor: onions, sambal, chilies, garlic and shrimp paste.
• 3 process until you have a paste.
• 4 fry this paste in the oil on a medium heat for a few minutes together with the kaffir and bay leaves.
• 5 add the soja sauce, a little vinegar, the cooked meat and 1 to 2 cups of the meat stock.
• 6 simmer for approx 15 minutes, and then taste for salt, sugar and maybe more vinegar.
• 7 serve this with rice and other indonesian dishes, what is really great as a little side dish is to quarter a few bananas and quickly fry them in butter until brown and starting to soften, keep warm in the oven until you are ready to serve.
• 8 the little chilies make this dish pretty hot and i sometimes leave them out.