Beef Slices in Black Sauce

Name: Beef Slices in Black Sauce (Daging Masak Hitam Cik Dah)
Cuisine: Malaysian
Ingredients: Turmeric powder 1 tsp; Cooking oil 6 Tbsp; Garlic 4 cloves, peeled; Red chilli 1, seeded and thinly sliced; Shallots 8, peeled; Lemongrass 4 stalks, finely sliced; Sweet soy sauce 125 ml (4 fl oz / ½ cup); Chopped ginger 2 tsp; Powdered chilli or ground chilli paste 3 Tbsp; Palm sugar (gula melaka) 45 g (1½ oz), grated; Beef 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz), finely sliced; Water 1 litre (32 fl oz / 4 cups); Dried sour fruit (asam gelugor) 3 pieces

Daging Masak Hitam Cik Dah

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Best of Chef Wan Volume 1

By Chef Wan

Published 2018

About

Ingredients

Cooking oil 6 Tbsp
Beef 1 kg (2 lb

Asia
Malaysia
Main course
South East Asia

Method

Combine ingredients for spice paste in a food processor and blend until smooth. Heat oil in a wok and sauté the spice paste until fragrant.
Add the beef, dried sour fruit, palm sugar and water. Simmer until beef is tender.
Stir in the sweet soy sauce and cook until sauce is almost dry. Garnish with sliced chilli and serve with rice.