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Dendeng Balado – Crispy Beef with Chili Paste
Dendeng Balado comes from West Sumatra. You boil a piece of beef tender, slice it thin, pound it flat and fry it crisp. On top goes balado, a coarsely ground paste of red chilies and shallots with lime juice. Let the boiled slices dry well before they go into the oil, and they crisp up evenly. For daging dendeng, by contrast, you dry raw, sweetly marinated slices in the oven.
Dendeng Balado – Crispy Beef with Chili Paste
Laura Chen
4
50 minutes
85 minutes
480
Indonesian
Main course
Dendeng Balado comes from West Sumatra. You boil a piece of beef tender, slice it thin, pound it flat and fry it crisp. On top goes balado, a coarsely ground paste of red chilies and shallots with lime juice. For daging dendeng, by contrast, you dry raw, sweetly marinated slices in the oven.
Ingredients
For the meat:
- 600 g beef top round, in one piece
- 1 l water
- 3 cm ginger, sliced
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 l oil for deep-frying
For the balado paste:
- 12 red chilies (about 180 g)
- 8 shallots
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tomato
- 1 tsp sugar
- ¾ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp lime juice
Instructions
- Bring the meat to a boil with the water, ginger and salt and skim off the foam. Simmer covered over low heat for 45 minutes, until a fork slides in easily.
- Take out the meat and let it cool for 15 minutes. Cut it across the grain into 3 mm slices.
- Pound the slices flat with a pestle or meat mallet until the fibers break open. Let them dry on a rack for 30 minutes.
- Heat the oil to 170 °C (340 °F). Fry the slices in batches for 4 to 5 minutes, until dark brown and few bubbles still rise. Drain them on paper towels.
- Coarsely chop the chilies, shallots, garlic and tomato in a blender. The paste should stay grainy.
- Put 5 tbsp of the frying oil in a pan and fry the paste over medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes, until the oil separates red. Season with sugar, salt and lime juice.
- Lay the meat on a platter and spread the balado paste over it. Serve right away with rice, so the meat stays crisp.
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