Dendeng Pedas ('hot' Fried Beef)

Dendeng Pedas ('hot' Fried Beef)

Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients
1 kg (2 lb) topside (beef) --------------------------MARINADE-------------------------------
1 tb Olive oil
1/2 ts Black pepper 1 tb Dark soya sauce ---------------------------BUMBU--------------------------------
10 Shallots
4 Red chillis (or 2 tbs -Sambal Ulek)
2 tb Vegetable oil
Salt
1 tb Lemon or fresh lime juice
Directions
* Cut the beef fairly thin and trim it into small, square pieces. Marinate it for 1 hour or longer. Remember

that pedas=hot++spicy hot! This is fried beef, with a robust flavour of chilli. Slice the shallots finely.

Seed and slice the chillis. Fry them in a tablespoonful of oil, in a wok, stirring all the time until they are

golden brown. Add salt to taste. Keep hot. Put a tablespoonful of oil in a thick frying-pan, and fry the

slices of meat a few at a time. Three minutes on each side will be ample*. When all the pieces are cooked, put

them into the wok with the shallots and chilli. Heat, and mix well. Sprinkle over the mixture 1 tablespoonful

of lemon juice, or, better still, fresh lime juice. Stir, and add more salt if necessary. Serve hot, with

rice. * NOTE: In Indonesia, the meat is usually fried until crisp. You can even buy sun-dried dendeng which

only needs coating with bumbu and frying. Crisp dendeng can be rather tough, and I prefer it as described

above; however, a purist might say that my recipe is not 'genuinely' Indonesian. Makes 6 servings.



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