Name: Beef, sweet and sour (Daging Asam Manis)
Yield: to serve four
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 1 tsp ground ginger; 3 tsp brown sugar; 1 cup tamarind water; 2 onions; 1 tsp salt; 2 green chillis; 800 g (1¾ lb) topside of beef or rump steak; 60 g (2 oz) butter melted

Preparation info

to serve
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

The English title above is a literal translation of the Indonesian one; but remember that this dish is sweet and sour in the Indonesian, not the Chinese, sense.

Ingredients

800 g (1¾ lb) topside of beef or rump steak
2 green chillis

Method

Cut the beef into small, thin slices. Seed and slice the green chillis and slice the onions. Dissolve the sugar in the tamarind water and add to it the ground ginger and salt.

Put a layer of slices of meat on the bottom of a thick saucepan then a layer of onion and chilli (with a little salt), then another layer of meat, another of onion and chilli, and so on—with a top layer of meat. P