Rendang / Indonesian spices meat

There is no doubt that Western people don't like spice thing including my husband, I remember first time he came to Indonesia and tried Indonesian food with spice like Chili he can not cope it and he have to back and forth to the toilet lol....But the time goes by and since I almost cook for him Indonesian food almost everyday and off course a i always add the chili on the food , believe it or not he can handle now and enjoy all the Indonesian spice i made for him..

here is one of our favorite Indonesian spice food.....

This recipe i got from one of my other blog friend and i tried it today , normally i made my own recipe for " Rendang " but this time i followed my friend recipe and the result is yummy..:-))




Ingredients :

1 Kg Beef meat
1 lemon grass
10 Kaffir lime leaf
600 ml coconut milk
1 beef broth (magi blok)
1 sp tamarind
2 sp oil for fry

Spices : Using the "ulekan" stone or blender all these spices
Chili sauce 2 Sp
10 Shallots
4 garlic
2 galangal
3 candlenut

Direction :

Stir fry all mixed spices together with tamarind,lemon grass ,beef broth until it shimmer add Meat let meat until change the color and add Coconut milk under low heat let them boil and cook for 2 1/2 hours until meat is tender, will come oil from coconut milk and the spice turn to brown.

Serve with warm rice..

P.s : In my country we normally make with big portion , and we always warm this food again and again ,the color will change to dark ,but more dark is more better taste...