Name: ‘Hot’ fried beef (Dendeng Pedas)
Yield: to serve six
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 10 shallots; 1 tbs dark, soya sauce; ½ tsp black pepper; 1 tbs lemon juice or fresh lime juice; 1 tbs olive oil; salt; 2 green chillis; 2 tbs vegetable oil

Preparation info

to serve
six

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

Remember that pedas = hot—spicy hot ! This is fried beef, with a robust flavour of chilli.

Ingredients

1 kg (2 lb) topside

Method

Cut the beef fairly thin and trim it into small, square pieces. Marinate it for 1 hour or longer.

Slice the shallots finely. Seed and slice the chillis. Fry them in a tablespoonful of oil, in a wok, stirring all the time until they are golden brown. Add salt to taste. Keep hot.

Put a tablespoonful of oil in a thick frying-pan, and fry the slices of me