Ingredients:• 1 chicken, quartered, or 800 g (1 ½ lbs) • 2 liters (8 cups) water • 2 stalks lemongrass, tender inner part of bottom third only, bruised • 1 teaspoon salt • 1 tablespoon oilSpice Paste:• 2 teaspoons black peppercorns • 6 cloves • 3 cm (1 in) fresh ginger, peeled and sliced • ¼ teaspoon dried shrimp pasteAccompaniments:• 100 g (3 ½ oz) glass noodles, soaked in warm water to soften, cut in lengths • 4 hard-boiled eggs, quartered • 1 portion Fried Potato Patties • 100 g (2 cups) fresh bean sprouts • 2 tablespoons Crispy fried shallots • 2 tablespoons finely chopped Chinese celery leaves • 1 lime or lemon, quartered • Sweet Indonesian soy sauce, to serve • 1 portion Candlenut SambalPreparations:1. Place the chicken, water, lemongrass and salt in a large pot. Bring to a boil, cover, lower the heat and simmer gently until the chicken is tender, about 40 minutes. Remove the chicken and when cool enough to handle, debone and cut the meat into small cubes. Discard the bones and return the meat to the pot. Remove and discard the lemongrass 2. Prepare the Spice Paste by grinding the peppercorns and cloves until coarse. Add the ginger and shrimp paste and grind to a smooth paste, adding a little water if necessary to keep the mixture turning. 3. Heat the oil in a wok or saucepan and fry the Spice Paste over low heat until fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the Spice Paste to chicken soup 4. Prepare the Candlenut Sambal and transfer to 4 small dipping bowls to serve with the soup 5. Divide the glass noodles, eggs, Fried Potato Patties and bean sprouts into 4 individuals serving bowls. Reheat the chicken soup, taste and add more salt if desired. Ladle the soup into the bowls. Sprinkle each serving with Crispy Fried Shallots and celery leaves. Serve with the Candlenut Sambal, lime quarters and a bowl of sweet soy sauce on the side
Ingredients:• 3 tablespoons oil • 4 keluak nuts (buah keluak), cracked, flesh extracted (optional) • 1 ½ kg ( 3 lbs) beef ribs, separated • 1 tablespoon tamarind pulp • 2 liters (8 cups) water • 1 ½ -2 teaspoons salt • 2 spring onions, thinly sliced • 1 tablespoon sweet Indonesian soy sauce • 2 tablespoons Crispy Fried Shallots • 1 lime, cut in wedges • 1 portion Bird’s eye Chili SambalSpice Paste:• 1 teaspoon coriander seeds • 1 teaspoon cumin seeds • 1 teaspoon black peppercorns • 4 cloves garlic • 6 shallots, peeled • 2 cm ( ¾ in) fresh turmeric root, peeled and sliced, or 1 teaspoon ground turmericPreparations:1. To prepare the Spice Paste, dry-roast the coriander and cumin seeds in a pan over low heat for 3 to 4 minutes until fragrant, then grind them together with the peppercorns and cloves in a spice grinder until fine. Add the garlic, shallots and turmeric root and process to a smooth paste, adding a little of the oil if necessary to keep the mixture turning 2. Heat the oil in a large pot and add the Spice Paste and keluak nuts, if using. Stir-fry over low heat for 3 minutes. Add the beef ribs and stir-fry until they have changed color, about 8 minutes. 3. Mash the tamarind pulp in 60 mL ( ¼ cup) of the water, then squeeze and strain to obtain tamarind juice. Add the juice, remaining water and salt to the pot, then bring to a boil. Cover, lower the heat and simmer until the ribs are very tender, about 1 ½ hours. 4. Stir in the spring onion and soy sauce, then transfer to a serving bowl. Garnish with Crispy Fried Shallots and serve with lime wedges and Bird’s-eye Chili Sambal.
Ingredients:- 75g (1 ½ lb) lean beef topside thinly sliced along the grain
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 teaspoon salt vegetable
- oil for deep frying
Dressing - 2-3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 4 shallots thickly sliced
- 8-10 fresh red chillies coarsery chopped
- 7 kaffir lime leaves
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3-4 tablespoons lime juice
Preparations:1. Sprinkle the beef on both sides with the lime juice and salt rubbing it in well with the fingers dry in the sun turning several times until the meat has completely dried alternatively spread meat in a single layer on a rack and dry in a very low oven for 3 to 4 hours. 2. To prepare the dressing heat the oil in a wok add the shallots and cook over medium heat until transparent add the chillies and lime leaves and stir-fry until the chilli softens but still retains its bright red colour 2 to 3 minutes add salt and lime juice stirring to mix well transfer to a bowl. 3. Was and dry wok then add oil for deep-frying when very hot add the dried beef a few slices at a time and fry over high heat until brown and very crisp drain on paper towel then transfer to a serving dish and pour over the dressing.
