Buffalo meat cooked until tender with spicy and sour notes makes this a hearty choice for your meal.
"No need to hunt buffalo, just use beef"
Ingredients
Quarter kilo of buffalo meat, cut into 2 inch chunks
Large bunch of papaya leaves
To Pound:
6 small red onions
2 cloves garlic
Thumb sized ginger
Half a thumb fresh turmeric
4 Tbs cili boh (made from dried chillies soaked and blended into a paste)
2 stalks laksa leaves
Juice squeezed from a fist sized lump of asam jawa
Sliced into strips:
Half torch ginger flower
2 kaffir lime leaves
Third of a turmeric leaf
Salt and Sugar to taste
Serves...
4
A red-hot mean-looking concoction gravy of spicy grated chillies, this one sporting sexy hunks of kerbau or buffalo meat.
Beef is a great option if you can't get buffalo meat.
Method
To prepare the buffalo meat, boil the meat in water with the papaya leaves until the meat is tender.
This may take up to 4 hours; keep topping up the water and stir the meat and leaves periodically so they don't stick to the pot.
Fry the pounded ingredients in oil until fragrant. Mix in the cili boh and continue to fry until the oil rises.
Strip the laksa leaves off the stalks and stir it into the cooking cili paste along with the torch ginger flower, kaffir lime leaves and turmeric leaf.
Pour in the asam jawa juice and stir well.
Place the buffalo chunks into the gravy and make sure the meat is coated with all the gravy.
Season with salt and sugar to taste.
Keep it at a simmer until the gravy reduces and the flavours are balanced.
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