RAWON

Rawon is special dishes from Java, Javanese food. It is a kind of beef dishes with special flavor, main flavor is kluwek (kepayang fruit), garlic, red onion, white pepper and candlenut fruit. How to make it ? Here you are.
INGREDIENTS :

• 1/2 kg beef, little cubed
• 1 1/2 lt freshwater
• cooking oil for sauté
• fried slice red onion for sprinkle

Ground seasoning :
• 2 kluwek/keluak (kepayang fruits), steamed or boiled, peeled
• 4 cloves of garlic, peeled and chopped
• 5 cloves of red onion, peeled and chopped
• 4 kemiri (candlenuts)
• 1 tsp merica (white pepper)

Another seasoning :
• 2 cm ginger root, peeled and bruised
• 3 cm lengkuas/laja (alpine galangal root), peeled and bruised
• 3 jeruk purut leaves (small fragrant lime leaves)
• 1 stalk lemongrass, bruised
• brown sugar (palm sugar), season to taste
• sea salt, season to taste

CHILI SAUCE :
• 10 cabe rawit merah (red chilies / bird’s eye chilies)
• 5 cloves red onion
• sea salt, season to taste

OPTION :
• 5 salted (duck) eggs
• 1 bunch of kemangi (basil), wash and pick its leaves
• 2 cucumbers
• 1 ons bean sprout, steamed, drained and set aside

METHOD :
1. Combine all ground flavor ingredients, place in a mortal and pestle or food prosessor and grind or blend to form a fine paste. Set aside.
2. Preheat about 3 tbsp cooking oil, saute’ the ground flavor add in bruised lemongrass, bruised ginger root, jeruk purut leaves and bruised alpine galingal root, stir frequently until the mixture becames very fragrant. Reduce heat to medium.
3. Put the beef into the sauté, stir it, cover and let it for about 3 minutes (diungkep). After 3 minutes and beef becomes wilted add 1½ freshwater, brown/palm sugar and sea alt season to taste (as you like), cover again, simmer it until the beef tender and absorb the flavor (well done), usually a rest of thin sauce is about half a part.
4. Nex, to make chili sauce, put all ingredients chili sauce in the mortar and pestle and grind they finely add a little boiled water, finish.
5. Now, rawon dishes ready to serve for about 5 portions. Usually rawon serve with chili sauce (season to taste), salted duck egg, cucumber, basil and bean sprouts. Happy taste.
6. Happy trying. Thank you very much.