Notes, Tips & Tricks
Here it is the typical cuisine from Banjarmasin - South Kalimantan : Sour Beef Soup. I think it tastes similarly to the Bone Ribs Soup from Palembang - South Sumatra.
Tempting flavours of spices & fresh vegetable definitely stimulate you to try this! .
Long beans is commonly used in the original recipe but unfortunatelly this exotic vegetable not always
available in Asian shops. So this time I took the French Beans as a subtitude. But I assure you.. it still tastes superb ;-)...
Ingredients
Ingredients for 2-3 persons:
- 500 gr/ 1 lb 2 oz beef meat (with fat) if preffered
- 1.5 lt/ 3 pints Water
- 5 pcs long beans or 20 pcs young French beans
- 2 cm or 1 tsp galangale, bruished or sliced
- 1 stem lemon grass, outer leave discard, bruished
- 3 tbsp tamarind water (1 tsp tamarind pulp soak in 3 tbsp water)
- 5 fresh green chillies
- salt to taste
- sugar to taste
Spice for the paste:
- 2 large red chillies, de-seeded, chopped
- 5 shallots, chopped
- 2 cm fresh turmeric or 2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 pinch roasted shrimp paste / Terasi (optional )
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- 1
Pour in 1.5 liter water in a deep saucepan, cover the pan and bring to boil.
- 2
Adjust the heat into medium, *** add the beef meat until cooked. (If necessary skim off and discard the fat that floats to the water surface).
- 3
Take out the meat and cut into a cube (2x2 cm). Put again into the pan.
- 4
Wash and cut the long/french beans into 3 cm length. Put aside.
- 5
Put all ingredients for the paste in a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. If necessery add a little bit oil to help the blending process.
- 6
Heat 2 tbsp oil in a Wok or big saucepan. (Don't add oil if already added in a blender). Stir fry the paste & lemon grass. Stirring all the time until fragrant.
- 7
Add the fried spice into the pan. Add the sliced beans & big green chillies & continue cooking until vegetable half cooked.
- 8
Adjust the seasoning, add the salt and sugar to taste until it tastes sour & sweet. Serve hot with rice.
Note:
*** Add the meat into boiled water then cook on the medium heat to preserve it's best taste.