Uhhh... lekker Nasi Empal ala Lizzie

Hoi.. hoi...

Long time no see.. Nice weather last week and it might be the only summer days in the Netherlands. Ha..Ha.. Ha.. That's why I was "busy" doing other things (enjoying the sun).

But for now, Let's start cooking Nasi Empal!!!!

Empal is one of my and my boyfriend favourite food. In general, Empal is a slow cooked then fried beef (of course with spices to make it taste gooooood).
 

Nasi Empal

Ingredients for Empal:

• 1kg beef
• 400ml coconut milk
• 4 bay leaves (daun salam) 
• water to boil the beef

Ingredients for spice paste:

• 5 shallots
• 6 cloves of garlic
• 7cm galangal
• 10g brown sugar
• 1tbs tamarind
• 3tbs coriander
• salt and sugar to taste 
• oil to fry

Your Ingredients

Method of cooking

1. Cut the beef into big and thick slices, then boil it in water until tender (it takes at least 30 minutes. If the beef is still hard, keep on boiling. Tips: Pressure cooker will make your life easier here). Don't throw away the beef stock you get from this.
2. Cut the beef into 1-2 cm thick slices. After that smash the beef to flatten it. The reason I don't cut the beef directly into thin slices, is this way you will get a better looking slices of Empal.  





Empal before frying




3. Put all the spice paste ingredients into a food processor to make the spice paste.
4. Boil the spice paste with the coconut milk and bay leaves until cooked. Then add the stock (you get it from the first step). After that add the beef, season it with salt and sugar then boil them again in medium heat until the water is completely reduced.
5. Strain the beef then fry it but not too long only until the color is changed.



Empal, Tofu and Tempe

6. Eat the Empal with steam rice, fried tofu,  fried tempe and HOT sambal. Eet Smakelijk allemaal.

HOT Sambal