Indonesian Beef Soup (Soto Betawi)

My personal favourite recipe of Soto Betawi! I hope you guys try it!
This is my first cooking of mixing so many different spices and it turns out very delicious!
I'm so excited that I can share this with you guys!!

• 300 gram of beef (preferably chuck meat)
• 500 ml of coconut milk
• 600 ml of water
• 3 bay leaf
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
• 3 spring onion
• 3 tablespoon of sweet soy sauce
• 3 tomatoes
• 1 lime
• 4 kaffir lime leaf
• 2 lemongrass
• 1 teaspoon of fried shallot 

Blended Spices:

• 1 teaspoon of coriander
• 1/2 teaspoon of cumin
• 8 candlenut
• 3 red chilli
• 10 cloves of shallot
• 6 cloves of garlic
• 2 teaspoon of ginger
• 2 teaspoon of galangga
• 1/2 teaspoon of pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1/4 teaspoon of sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon of cloves

Additional Ingredients:

• 1 pan-fried potato
• 2 or 3 boiled eggs

Directions

1. Put the meat inside the boiling water in low heat
2. Put all the blended spices in the food processor. Heat the oil in a pan and stir-fry the blended spices until you can smell the fragrant.
3. Pour the mixed spices into the soup.
4. Don't forget to put in bay leaf, cinnamon stick, nutmeg, kaffir lime and lemon grass.
5. After boiling in low heat for an hour, start pouring coconut milk and wait for another 2 hours.
6. Prepare the additional ingredients on the bowl. When the beef is tender, you can take it out and start cutting it into small cubes or pieces.
7. Also, cut the tomatoes to put inside the bowl.
8. Pour in the beef coconut soup into the bowl.
9. You can start to sprinkle some spring onion ad fried shallots on it. Lime juice and sweet soy sauce are optional.

Beef Ball Rice Vermicelli Soup (Bakso Bihun)

Winter is coming!! This is a good recipe for you guys to stay warm at home!

• - 6 cloves of shallot
• - 6 cloves of garlic
• - 1 liter of beef stock
• - 10 beef balls
• - 150 gram of rice vermicelli
• - 100 gram of bok choy
• - 1/4 teaspoon of salt
• - 1/4 teaspoon of pepper
• - 1 tablespoon of oil
• To garnish:
• - each bowl you can put 1 fried / boiled tofu
• - boiled egg
• - cilantro/ spring onion
• - fried shallot
• - sweet soy sauce 

1. - pour the oil in a pot and start to put in shallots and garlic once the oil is hot
2. - pour in the beef stock and salt and pepper
3. - prepare the rice vermicelli by soaking it in hot water until it soften
4. - put in the beef balls in the soup stock.
5. -prepare the bowl by putting the rice vermicelli on the bottom and bokchoy on the top of it.
6. -once the stock is boiled, you can put the beef balls on the top of it.
7. - to garnish, you can put sweet soy sauce, fried shallots, green onion/cilantro. 

Try it at home and let me know what you guys think! Email and comment to ieatperth@gmail.com
 

Batavia Corner Indonesian Restaurant

This is one of my favourite Indonesian restaurant in town. It is located in Albany Highway which is not too far from where I live.

The place was not so big and there wasn't that much customers. Old and authentic photo frames were on the left side of the wall. It is a good place to have lunch. I don't take any photos of the food that I had because at that time I was too hungry that I forgot to take a picture.

Don't worry, I still remember what I had that day. We had 'risoles' (a kind of indonesian spring roll), lemper ayam (glutinous rice with shredded coconut milk in the middle) and pempek (indonesian fish cake with egg yolk in center). This was the first time I ordered risoles and the inside was just too sweet for me. Lemper Ayam and Pempek were just awesome as always.

As the main dish, we had ayam penyet (fried chicken with sambal and sweet soy sauce on top), nasi kuning komplit ( yellow rice with chicken and sambal egg) and soto ayam ambengan ( indonesian chicken glass noodle soup). The ayam penyet and nasi kuning was okay. Soto ayam ambengan was our all-time favourite. We always order that whenever we're here.

I was really satisfied and I will always come to this place. The food is just authentic and scrumptious! yum!

Indonesian Spicy Fried Boiled Eggs (Telur Balado)

This is one of my favourite Indonesian recipe that is very easy to cook. Especially for people that like spiciness, you should definitely try this recipe!

   5 Egg
    4 tablespoon(s) Garlic
    2 tablespoon(s) Shallot
    3 Bay Leaf
    2 piece(s) Galangga
    3 tablespoon(s) Oil
    3 piece(s) Candlenut
    4 piece(s) Red Chilli
    1 small Tomato
    2 dash(es) Pepper
    1 teaspoon(s) Salt
    1/2 teaspoon(s) Sugar
    1 lemongrass

1. Boil the eggs before frying it in the pan. Fry it till its golden brown.
2. Blend the spices (chilli, galangga, shallot, garlic) in the food processor. After that, put it on medium heat and mix it with with rest of the ingredients.
3. Put it the fried boiled egg in the sauce. Then mix it all together.
4. Add some water and let it sizzle for a while until the eggs absorb the sauce. And, it's ready to be serve. 

Enjoyyyyyyyyy