Abon / Serunding Sapi (Beef Floss)

Ingredients:
2 tsp Brown Sugar
500 g Rumpsteak, lean
3 tsp Coriander
1 1/2 tsp Cumin
1/4 tsp Laos (Galangal)
2 tsp Lemon juice
4 Medium onions, chopped
1 Medium onion, crushed
2 Garlic cloves, crushed
120 ml Santan (thick coconut milk)
2 Curry leaves
Oil as required
Salt to taste


How to:

1. Boil the meat in sufficient water until the steak is cooked and almost disintegrating.
2. Remove the meat from the stock and shred it.
3. Mix the following ingredients and spices together thoroughly: meat, crushed onion, garlic, coriander, cumin, laos, brown sugar, lemonjuice, salt.
4. Fry the above mixture in a little hot oil on a high heat for approximately five minutes.
5. Add the santan and the curry leaves, turn the heat to medium and cook until everything is cooked and all fluid has evaporated.
6. Remove the curry leaves.
7. Fry the chopped onions in hot oil until they are brown and crisp.
8. Mix the fried onions with the mixture prepared above.

Serving: Abon will keep quite a long time if kept in a tightly-closed jar. It is eaten as a side dish and is particularly tasty with warm plain rice. It is also used as a filling for omelettes, or sprinkled on breakfast toast.

This recipe is one of many Exotic Indonesian Recipes in "Cooking the Indonesian Way", by Alec Robeau

Btw It's never a sin to have a book of Indonesian Recipes in your bookshelf
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