Name: Slices of cooked beef in chilli and tamarind sauce (Daging Bumbu Bali)
Yield: to serve four
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: ½ cup tamarind water; ½ tsp ground ginger; 1 tbs dark soya sauce; 3 red chillis, seeded and crushed; salt; 2 tbs vegetable oil; 500 g (1 lb) sliced roast beef; 1 slice terasi; 2 onions; 2 cloves garlic

Preparation info

to serve
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

Like Semur, this is a good way to use leftovers, and is very easy to cook.

Ingredients

500 g (1 lb) sliced roast beef
1 slice teras

Method

Crush the terasi and the garlic, and slice the onion. Fry the onion in oil until slightly browned, then add the terasi and garlic paste. Fry, stirring continuously, for half a minute or so, and add all the other ingredients, finishing with the meat. Stir well and let everything simmer very gently for 5–8 minutes. The mixture must not go dry, but the sauce should be very thick. Serve hot, with v