Beef Rendang Indonesian Beef Stew Recipes

BEEF RENDANG (THE BEST!)

Steps:

• Chop the spice paste ingredients and then blend it in a food processor until fine.
• Heat the oil in a stew pot, add the spice paste, cinnamon, cloves, star anise, and cardamom and stir-fry until aromatic. Add the beef and the pounded lemongrass and stir for 1 minute. Add the coconut milk, tamarind juice, water, and simmer on medium heat, stirring frequently until the meat is almost cooked. Add the kaffir lime leaves, kerisik (toasted coconut), sugar or palm sugar, stirring to blend well with the meat.
• Lower the heat to low, cover the lid, and simmer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until the meat is really tender and the gravy has dried up. Add more salt and sugar to taste. Serve immediately with steamed rice and save some for overnight.

BEEF RENDANG RECIPE

Steps:

• Cut the beef into 4 cm squares, half cm thick. Do not cut the beef too small as the meat can break into smaller pieces during cooking.
• Blend all the ingredients in (B), set the blend aside.
• Remove the green section and the outer sheath of the lemongrass. Use only the white portion. Bash them so that the lemongrass to ensure the release of the flavor.
• Heat up the vegetable oil in a wok. Saute the spice paste (B) over low heat until aromatic.
• Add the coconut cream, turmeric leaves, kaffir lime leaves, asam keping and lemongrass into the wok.
• Add the beef and cook over medium heat. Bring the coconut milk to a boil.
• Once it is boiled, continue simmer over low heat. Add water from time to time when the stew is about to dry.
• Cook until the beef absorbs the flavor of the spices thoroughly and the color turns to dark brown. It will take about three hours.
• Served with rice or bread.

BEEF RENDANG: INDONESIAN BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Make the spice paste
• Slice two garlic cloves thinly
• Chop up an onion finely. You will need two tablespoons.
• In a food processor (or mortar and pestle) create a paste from: 2 tablespoons of the chopped onion Sliced garlic cloves 1 teaspoons of salt 1 teaspoon of chili flakes turmeric
• Prep Ingredients
• Cut the beef chuck into large chunks
• Cut off a 5cm x 5cm piece of lemon peel (2" x 2")
• Peel and cut a piece of ginger, approximately 0.5cm (1/4") thick.
• Cut and peel the galangal into three slices, approximately 0.5cm (1/4") thick.
• Fry the spice paste and beef
• Put a large Dutch Oven over medium heat, and heat up 2 tablespoons of oil.
• Add the spice paste, and stir constantly for 2 minutes, until fragrant.
• Over high heat, add the beef, and cook it for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally to make sure all the sides of the chunks of beef are seared.
• Cook
• Add the coconut milk, lemon peel, ginger, galangal, and Salam leaves, stir everything together.
• Let the beef simmer over low heat for several hours, until the sauce is almost all cooked down. Stir occasionally, and scrape up anything sticking to the bottom of the pot. There will be oil pooling on top; we will discard that when done, but leave it on there while cooking. If you're not sure if the sauce is cooked down enough, tilt the pan slightly to the oil moves to one side, and the beef stays on the other. If the oil is clear (it'll be yellow), and the beef appears to have almost no sauce left, you're done! If there is a lot of sauce mixed through the oil, or the beef still has visible sauce, you need to cook it longer! The beef will be falling apart; that is ok, but try to make sure you leave the bigger chunks intact.
• Serve
• When the beef is cooked down, skim off all the oil, and remove the ginger, galangal, and salam leaves. The lemon peel will be completely dissolved in the stew.
• Put some rice on a plate, and add the Rendang next to it. Serve with some sambal on the table, if people like it spicier!

RENDANG GAGING (BEEF STEW)

Steps:

• Place shallots, lemongrass, garlic, ginger, galangal, and chile peppers in a food processor; process spices into a coarse paste.
• Heat vegetable oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add spice paste; cook and stir until sizzling and fragrant, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in curry powder and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add beef; stir to coat with spices, about 3 minutes. Pour in coconut milk. Cover and simmer stew until beef is tender, about 30 minutes.
• Stir vinegar, sugar, and salt into the pot. Continue to cook, covered, until sauce reduces and thickens, about 30 minutes more.