Malay Spice: Daging Balado

Daging Balado (licht zuur pittig gekruid rundvlees)
Daging Balado is een specialiteit uit Padang, West Sumatra. Het rundvlees is dun gesneden, gemarineerd in boemboe, gekookt dan gebakken tot donker.
De sambal wordt apart gekookt voordat het rundvlees wordt toegevoegd.
Je kan deze sambal met kip,ei, vis, aubergine, tahoe, aardappel...eten.

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Daging Balado, a slightly sour spicy beef dish, is a specialty from Padang, West Sumatra. You would have probably seen this at the food stalls selling Padang food or in other variations - with chicken, egg, fish, lungs or eggplant.
The beef is sliced thinly, marinated, boiled then fried till it gets dark. The sambal is cooked separately before the beef is added.

I've cooked this with beef and eggs and I must say we prefer it with beef.

Ingredients & Method for the Beef:

a) 1 kg of beef, sliced thinly, about 0.5cm

b) 1 cm of ginger, 5 cloves of garlic, 1.5 tsp of turmeric powder

I used the garlic crusher - garlic and ginger. Mix these with the beef and let it marinate for a while.

Then boil the beef with a little bit of salt till it is cooked and there's not much water left. Let the

meat cool.

c) Heat up some oil in the wok and fry the beef till it gets dark. If you prefer the meat to be drier, fry

it a bit longer.

!!! If you want to make dendeng (like jerky), smash the beef after boiling them. We usually use the

pestle.

OK, now that the beef is done, let's make the sambal.

Ingredients & Method for the Sambal:

1 red onion , 1 tomato, 7-10 red chillies (Blend all of these ingredients, not too fine)

a) Heat up the oil from the oil used to fry the beef. May add more oil if needed. (You would need to use more oil than usually to make sambal, but you can throw it some away after you've cooked it.)

b) Fry the blended ingredients till the oil is separated from the blended ingredients.

c) Add salt to taste. Then add the beef and mix them through. And it's done!

Since the Daging Balado is a flavourful dish, you can pair it up with a vege dish that's mild. Here, I've made 'taugeh goreng'.