Semur Daging Betawi (Batavian Spiced Beef)

My husband loves this meal and had asked me to make it since 2 week ago, so 3 days ago I prepared it and he thanked me so many times...(even the next day before it's all gone, he said he wants me to make another portion of it...). I did not have any idea he loves it that much...I am sorry dear for postponing for some days...

Ingredients:
- 800gr of beef meat, cut into small chunk
- 400gr of washed mini potato
- 2 block of tofu, cut into 8 pieces each, deep fry until half cooked
- 3cloves of small red onion
- 7cloves of garlic
- 4cm of ginger
- 5 candle nuts
- 4 dried cloves flower bud (I skipped this one)
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1tsp of ground coriander
- 1tsp of ground white pepper
- 2tsp of ground nutmeg
- 1 tomato, cut into 8
- 4Tbsp of sweet soy sauce
- sugar
- salt
- oil for saute
- water, app. 700ml



Directions:
Grind onion, garlic, ginger and candle nuts in a blender until smooth. Saute it with a little bit of oil until fragrant, then add coriander, pepper, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon stick, continue to stir for 2minutes. Add the beef and continue to cook and stir until color changed. Add some water and stir again. Cook until the meat tender. Add mini potato and cook for 10minutes. Add fried tofu and at last add tomato, sweet soy sauce, salt and sugar and stir well. Serve it with warm steam rice and chili paste (if you like).

Simplified Batavian Style Soup (Soto Betawi Sederhana)

This was a request from my husband, since he missed it so much. And it was the first time for me to make it from scratch, no instant seasoning added. Many recipes I found from the Internet, but it seemed too complicated for me, so I just simplified it.

Ingredients:
- 750gr beef flank, cut into small cubes
- 8 cloves of garlic
- 6 cloves of small red onion
- 4cm of ginger
- 4cm of galangal
- 6 candle nuts
- 1 lemon grass, cut into 4cm in length, crack it with pestle
- 4 Indonesian bay leaves
- 4 lime leaves
- 1tsp of ground turmeric
- 1tsp of ground white pepper
- 1tsp of ground coriander
- 1can of coconut milk
- water
- salt
- sugar
- oil for saute

Side dishes:
- tomato, cut into 8
- green onion, chop thinly
- fried onion
- fried melinjo crackers
- fried potato
- boiled eggs
- lime juice
- crushed chili



Directions:
In a blender, blend garlic, onion, ginger, galangal and candle nut until smooth. Then saute it with a little bit of oil in a pot until fragrant. Add the rest of the ingredients, except the meat, coconut milk, water, salt and sugar, and continue to saute for 2minutes. Add the beef and stir while cooking until changed color. Add water (app. 1.5lt) and continue to cook until boiling and the beef tender. Add coconut milk and stir it instantly. Adjust the taste with salt and sugar and continue to cook until boiling again.
To serve, in a bowl, place fried potato, cut tomato, and half of boiled egg. Pour the soup with meat over it. Sprinkle some fried onion and chopped green onion. Add crushed chili and some lime juice. Add melinjo crackers at the side. Eat it while it is hot.