Rawon

Rawon

Material:

• 300 grams of beef
• 100 grams Short bean sprouts, washed
• 2 bay leaves
• 4 lime leaves
• 1 stalk lemongrass, crushed
• 2 cm galangal / laos, crushed
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 6 cups water

Spices are blended:

• 4 red onions
• 2 cloves garlic
• 4 cloves pecan
• 3 fruit kluwek*, taken it
• 2 red chilli

How to Make:

1. Cut the beef into small boxes (diced).
2. Heat 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, saute the blended ingredients until fragrant with lemon grass, galangal, bay leaves and orange leaves. Add salt and pepper to taste.
3. Then, in the pot that was filled with 6 cups of water, put pieces of beef and spices mashed, boiled until the meat is cooked through and tender. When the water dries, add more to taste.
4. Serve with bean sprouts sprinkled on top and short-leaf decorated with orange.

kluwek* = kluwek are type of nut that is actually a seed. The oily, hard-shelled seeds resemble to Brazillian nuts. The meaty seeds are edible only after the poisonous hydrocyanic acid is removed by soaking and boiling them in water. Fermented keluak nuts become chocolate-brown, greasy and very slippery. Cooked seeds are used in a number of popular Malaysian and Indonesian dishes. see the picture