Lamb Gulai (Gulai Kambing)

I've still got some lamb meat inside the freezer, so today I made lamb gulai. I copied the recipe from keseharian.com with a little modification. It is good to eat while the weather is cold outside. Speaking bout the weather, I've really got sick of winter this year. It is March and we still have snow storm coming up. On the television, there is poll asking people: Will we have summer this year or we go directly into next winter? sound so desperate...

Ingredients:
- 1kg lamb meat with bones
- 4 potato, peel off the skin and cut into small pieces
- 5 cloves of small red onion, chop thinly
- 1 lemon grass, cut into 4 cm in length
- 4 Indonesian bay leaves
- 4 cinnamon sticks
- 5 clovers
- 1 tomato, cut into 8
- 1/2 can of coconut milk
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- salt
- oil for saute
- 1.5lt water
- fried onion

To crush:
- 5 cloves of garlic
- 15 chili paddy or bird's eye chili
- 5 candle nuts
- 3cm of galangal
- 2cm of turmeric
- 2 tsp ground coriander
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

In a pot boil water and lamb meat-bones until tender. Discard the surface foam. In a pan, saute chopped onion for 2minutes. Add the crushed mix, lemon grass, bay leaves, cinnamon sticks and clovers into the pan, and stir it well for 4minutes.
Transfer it into the pot which has tender lamb meat and water inside. Add coconut milk and stir it while it is boiled. Add potato and continue to cook for 7minutes. Add tomato, salt and sugar to taste. Serve it with warm steam rice. Sprinkle some fried onion as preferred.

Simplified Lamb Tongseng (Tonseng Kambing Sederhana)

I craved for lamb satay and Christian went to a market last Sunday to buy the meat. But the butcher said that boneless lamb meat is only available on Saturday. That day he only saw some lamb meat with bones. He called me and asked if I still want him to buy it. Hm...Quicky I said, yes, buy it! I checked my stuff in the fridge and kitchen and I knew that I had all of the ingredients I needed to make lamb tongseng. Well, I did not have cabbage though, but it's okay, since I have been gassing and nausea a lot lately, so better to avoid eating cabbage.
So here it is my recipe of simplified lamb tongseng.

Ingredients:
- 800gr of lamb meat with bones, cut into small cubes
- 8 cloves of garlic, chop thinly
- 6 cloves of small red onion, chop thinly
- 15 chili paddy or bird's eye chili, chop thinly
- 6 candle nuts, crush until smooth
- 1 lime
- 2 tomato, cut into 8 each
- 2 Tbsp of margarine
- 2 tsp of ground white pepper
- 100ml of sweet soy sauce
- salt
- water
- fried onion

In a wok, heat up margarine and saute chopped garlic and onion until brownish. Add chopped chili, continue to saute for another 1minute. Add the lamb meat and cook until change color, stir occasionally. Add candle nuts, pepper, salt and sweet soy sauce. Mix it well. Add lime juice and water as much as needed. Adjust the taste with salt, pepper and sweet soy sauce. Continue to cook until the meat tender.
To serve, in a bowl place some cut tomato and then pour the lamb tongseng. Sprinkle some fried onion. Eat it with steam rice and Indonesian crackers (kerupuk).