Recipe: Appetizing Beef Rendang

Beef Rendang. A tip on making Beef Rendang is to use a mortar and pestle to grind the spices, if you could find one. It takes longer to use mortar & pestle, but you can taste the difference when you use a food processor. Also, palm sugar is preferred to white sugar.

Called "rendang daging" in local language, it's arguably the most famous beef recipe in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. Beef Rendang is a Malaysian curry and is considered by many to be the king of all curries! To say it's extravagantly delicious is an understatement. You can cook Beef Rendang using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Beef Rendang

Prepare 1 kg of beef (chuck beef).
It's 3 of bay leaf.
Prepare 3 of kaffir lime leaf.
You need 1 inch of galangal (bruised).
You need 2 stalks of lemongrass (bruised).
It's 2 L of coconut milk.
Prepare 1 Tbsp of salt.
You need of Blended Spices.
Prepare 5 of shallot.
Prepare 5 cloves of garlic.
Prepare 5 of cayenne pepper (you could add or reduce the amount).
Prepare 4 of candlenut.
Prepare 2 inch of turmeric.
Prepare 1.5 inch of ginger.
You need 1 Tsp of nutmeg powder.
It's 1 Tsp of coriander powder.

There are very few curries in this world with such amazingly complex flavours. Originally from Indonesia though now more well known as a Malaysia curry, the sauce is made with aromatic spices like cinnamon, cardamom and. Beef Rendang Instead of searing the meat before cooking it in liquid, as is done with a Western-style braise, beef rendang reverses the process. Slowly simmering beef chuck with Indonesian spice.

Beef Rendang instructions

Prepare all ingredients. Cut beef into 4x4x4cm cubes. Toss the blended spice ingredients to blender. Give small amount of water to blender..
Heat the wok with medium fire. Add coconut milk, spice mixture, bay leaf, kaffir lime leaf, galangal, lemongrass and salt. Mix it well. Put beef chunks after the sauce is boiled..
Slow cook beef with low heat. Simmer it for approximately 4 hours until coconut milk turn into oil and the beef becomes dark brown and tender. Keep stir the beef every 10 minutes while simmering it, so it won't burnt..
Some say the more you reheat the beef on the next day, the more tasty it gets..
Beef Rendang is ready to serve with rice ✨.

Beef Rendang is one of our favourite curry recipes. Fragrant and rich, Rendang is made using beef and coconut to give it a fantastic sweet, salty and umami flavour. Beef rendang is carefully stirred, simmered and cooked for three to four hours until the coconut milk has totally evaporated and the meat has absorbed the flavor of the herbs and spices. Dried rendang can be stored at room temperature for three to four weeks. It can even last up to six months if frozen.