Padang's Beef Rendang

Padang's beef rendang is known as one most delicious food in the world. It's easy to make but it will take a long long long time to cook it (=^_^=).  Rendang was originally created to preserve meat. Shimmering the beef about 4 hours in spices and coconut milk. Part of beef which can be use to make rendang are blade, chuck, top side, or silver side.

Ingridients:

• 500 g beef, cut into large cube
• 500 ml thick coconut milk, from 1,5 coconut
• 700 ml light coconut milk from the rest of coconut
• 2 turmeric leaves
• 2 kaffir lime leaves, remove the stem
• 2 teaspoon salt
• 2 kandis
• 2 tablespoon oil
• 5 kari leaves

Ground spices

• 10 red chili peppers
• 10 shallots
• 5 garlics
• 2 cm ginger
• 2 cm galangal
• 2 cm turmeric
• 1 lemon grass

Directions:

1. Turn on the stove, heat the oil over medium heat, use heavy bottomed pot. Saute ground spices until its color changes to dark red and spices aroma start to comes out.
2. Add turmeric leaves, lime leaves, kari leaves, kandis, and salt, mix well.
3. Add meat, mix until all meat is covered with spices. Add light coconut milk, stir until boiling and liquid is reduced to quarter previous volume.
4. Add thick coconut milk, stir occasionally, after two hours the liquid is reduced and becomes more oily. Cooked until almost no liquid is left. 
5. Let it sit over night for the flavor distribute into the meat evenly.
6. Serve rendang with steamed rice.

Good luck in your rendang (=^_^=)

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