Indonesian Beef Rendang with sajoer green beans and rice served on a blue plate

Indonesian Beef Rendang

Indonesian cuisine has had a big influence on Dutch cuisine, so expect to find Dutch traditional food dishes based on Indonesian cuisine. Indonesian beef rendang doesn’t have a place among Dutch traditional food, but you can get it at every Chinese-Indonesian restaurant in the Netherlands. It’s not that hard to prepare at home, only needs to stew a couple of hours.

Indonesian Beef Rentang, still in the pan
Indonesian Beef Rentang

This beef rendang recipe comes from the magazine Feest from Uit Pauline’s Keuken. You’ll need beef as the main ingredient for this rendang. Flavor is added with garlic, onions, sriracha sauce, ground cumin, ground cilantro, ground galangal, ground turmeric, lime leaves, ginger and ground lemon grass. The beef is stewed in coconut milk. The rendang needs to stew for 2.5 hours.

Serve this rendang with Sajoer Green Beans or Broccoli with Coconut and Aromatic Ghee Rice.

Review

I replaced some ingredients, since I didn’t have them in my pantry anymore. I swapped sambal oelek  with sriracha sauce, used ground cilantro instead of cilantro seeds and ground lemon grass instead of a lemon grass stalk.

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Indonesian Beef Rendang Recipe

Indonesian Beef Rentang with sajoer green beans and rice served on a blue plate
Indonesian Beef Rentang with sajoer green beans and rice

Allergies: chili peppers, garlic, onion.

Ingredients

500 grams beef

2 cloves of garlic

Olive oil

2 onions

1 teaspoon ground galangal

2 teaspoons sriracha sauce

1 teaspoon ground cumin

2 lime leaves

1 teaspoons ground cilantro

3 centimeters ginger

1 teaspoon ground turmeric

Ground lemon grass

400 ml coconut milk

Instructions

Slice the beef in cubes. Brown the pieces a bit in olive oil.

Peel and chop the onions finely. Slice the ginger and garlic finely. Add onions, ginger, garlic, sriracha sauce, cumin, galangal, cilantro and turmeric. Cook together shortly.

Pour in the coconut milk and add the lemon grass and lime leaves. Let it stew for 2.5 hours.

Remove the lime leaves before serving the rendang.

Notes:

  • Recipe source is the magazine Feest from Uit Pauline’s Keuken.
  • Enough for 4 persons as a side dish.
  • You can replace sriracha sauce with sambal oelek. Sriracha sauce isn’t very Indonesian.
  • If you use a lemongrass stalk bruise it and remove it before serving the rendang   
Ingredients seen from above and places on the kitchen counter
Ingredients
Browning the beef, in the pan
Browning the beef
Indonesian Beef Rentang, still in the pan
Adding the garlic, onion and ginger
Stewing in coconut milk, in the pan
Stewing in coconut milk
Indonesian Beef Rentang with sajoer green beans and rice served on a blue plate
Indonesian Beef Rendang with sajoer green beans and rice

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