Empal Gepuk Karapitan

On my spare time, I like to try new recipes that I found in magazine or internet. So this time I would like to try Empal Gepuk Karapitan (recipe from Femina Magazine). It's Sundanesse cuisine. It's not so hard too make, even an amateur like my self can prepared it without any difficulty ;). The dish is perfect when paired with a plate of hot rice and sambal masak (sauted crushed chilli (hmm, I don't know if the translate is right or not). Make it for lunch for your love one!

Ingredient :
600 gr beef, half-done stew
750 ml coconut milk (I use instant coconut milk)

Spices, mashed it all (a.k.a diulek) :
8 shallots
3 cloves garlic
2 cm galangal
a bit of tamarind
1/2 tablespoon coriander
100 gr palm sugar
1 teaspoon salt

Direction :
1. Cut the beef into 5 x 6 x 1 cm, mashed the beef to widen. Set aside.
2. Saute the spices until fragrant. Add the coconut milk, stir well. Add the beef. Reduce the heat, cook the beef while stirring occasionally until it is tender and most of the liquid is evaporated. Lift from heat.
3. Deep fried beef until brown (be careful, stay at low heat or you gonna overcooked it)
4. Served (mine is topped with fried slice shallot)

Sambal Masak :
Saute 4 red chili (cut into pieces), 1 shallot, 1/2 tomato (cut into pieces), and a bit terasi (shrimp paste) on a pan with a bit oil until tender. Finely crushed with pestle and mortar.