Beef Rendang

Everytime I'm craving for rendang, I would just grab Indofood rendang instant seasoning from my kitchen drawer :) It's simple. The result is really good. And I still have quite many packs left. Maybe that's the reason I never had any urge to search for the recipe.

But then after 4 packs, I had enough, and I really wanted to cook it from scratch. 

So I combined some recipes from the internet. I figured out that the recipe is actually simple, but cooking rendang may need quite some time - 1 1/2 hour or so only to cook the meat until it's tender.

So here it is.

1 tbsp olive oil

2 lb beef, diced

1 pack of coconut powder

1/2 tsp galangal

1/2 big red onion

3 tsp minced garlic

1/2 tsp turmeric

1/2 tsp ginger

1 tsp salt

5 fresno red pepper

3 lime leaves

Chop red onion, garlic, and red pepper with food processor. Add galangal, turmeric, ginger, salt and process until smooth.

Pour olive oil into large saucepan and heat it over medium-high heat. Add the mixture from food processor into the pan, stir constantly until it's fragrant.

Add meat, 2 glasses of water, coconut powder, lime leaves, and lemongrass into the saucepan. Stir all the ingredients, bring into boil. 

Reduce the heat into medium-low and cover the saucepan until the beef is tender and the sauce is gravy, stir ocassionally. You may put extra water if needed. This may take 1 1/2 hour.

Serve over rice.