Tumis Daging Krecek - spiced stewed beef

spiced stewed beef

ingredients:

300g beef (fatty cut)

600 ml water

50 g Krecek (crackers of rawhide)

3 jeruk purut / kaffir lime leaves

1 lemongrass 

1 tsp salt

1 tsp palm sugar

200 ml beef stock (see recipe)

300ml coconut milk

1 tbsp asemwater

2 tablespoons oil

 

bumbu:

3 candlenuts

1 cm kunyit

6 shallots

4 cloves garlic

1 tsp ketumbar

9 green chilies

 

preparation:

Cut the meat into small cubes. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu fine into a paste.

Heat in a pan the water and cook the meat tender, but not cooked. Heat in a pan the oil and fry the paste with the jeruk purut and lemongrass for 5 minutes. Add this to the meat and mix. Then add the salt and palm sugar, followed by the stock and coconut milk and cook slowly until nearly done. Then add the krecek and asemwater and cook until done.