Gulai Gajebo - creamy beef stew

ingredients:

400g beef

1500 ml water

2 stalks lemongrass

4 jeruk purut

2 cm laos

2 salam leaves

1 tsp salt

1 tsp palm sugar

1 tsp asemwater

200 ml santen asli

2 tablespoons oil

 

Haluskan:

bumbu:

7 shallots

4 cloves garlic

4 red chilies

1 cm jahe

2 cm kunyit

 

preparation:

Heat in a pan the water and add the meat and cook until its 3/4 cooked. Drain but leave 1200ml broth behind. Cut the meat into pieces.

Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu fine into a paste. Heat in a pan the oil and fry the paste with the lemon grass, the jeruk purut, the laos and the salam for 5 minutes. Add the stock and bring to the boil. Then add the meat along with the santen, salt, palm sugar and asemwater and cook gently until tender.