Recipe: Delicious beef semur

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Recipe: Delicious beef semur Delicious, fresh and tasty.

beef semur. Semur is an Indonesian type of meat stew (mainly beef), that is braised in thick brown gravy commonly found in Indonesian cuisine. The main ingredient used in semur gravy is sweet soy sauce, shallots, onions, garlic, ginger, candlenut, nutmeg and cloves, sometimes pepper, coriander, cumin and cinnamon might be added. Sweet soy sauce is the most important ingredient in the Semur-making process.

Add the semur spice paste and cook until fragrant and brown.

Marinade the beef with all the ingredients for about an hour.

Add the onion, garlic and ginger and fry for a couple of minutes until softened but not brown.

You can have beef semur using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of beef semur

  1. It’s of tenderloin (beef).

  2. You need of potatoes.

  3. You need of carrot.

  4. Prepare of beans.

  5. You need of brocolli.

  6. Prepare of soy sauce (kecap) not salty soy sauce like japanese or korean soy sauce, but the taste is sweet and the texture is thick, and u can found it in the asian market.

  7. It’s of tomato ketchup.

  8. You need of tomato.

  9. Prepare of salt.

  10. Prepare of sugar.

  11. Prepare of quail eggs (boil it for about 8 minutes,peel it,set aside).

  12. Prepare of spices (make like puree,u can use blender or chopper).

  13. Prepare of garlic.

  14. You need of shallot.

  15. You need of onion.

  16. You need of hazelnut (kemiri).

  17. It’s of black pepper.

Add the beef, stir to mix and brown for a couple of minutes.

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Kecap Manis stew also known as "semur".

So, what I made is originally called "beef semur".

beef semur step by step

  1. boil 1 liter water with beef tenderloin,until the meat is tender. u can test it using the fork. chop the meat for about 3 cm. set aside the beef stock in the bowl..

  2. prepare the pot , add 3 tsp olive oil or unsalted butter. add the puree spices. saute the puree until the color is changing until golden brown and smells good. add soy sauce,wait until soy sauce is caramelized,stir it, add the beef stock,wait until its boiling. add chopped tenderloin. cover the pot. wait for about 8 minutes..

  3. peel the potatoes,chopped like artificial crabmeat size. add into the boiling beef broth and meat. add the tomato ketchup,stir it,and cover it again..

  4. peel the carrots,cut like artificial crab size. cut the bean same size like the carrots. cut the brocolli. prepare the boiling water,add a pinch of salt. boil the carrot for about 5 minutes or until it soft but not to soft,u can taste it soft but still crunchy. boil the bean about 4 minutes,until soft but still crunchy, so does the brocolli boil it until soft but still crunchy. set aside,put it in a plate..

  5. check the semur in the pot. taste it,add the salt, and sugar. add the tomatoes. cover it again,wait until the beef stock / sauce is thick, not too thick but not too watery either. last,add the boiling quail eggs. mix it, served it..

  6. u can served the beef semur with the vegetables stew. hope ull like it and understand my recipes :p i'm so sorry if my english is bad.. cheers :).

There also "chicken semur", "tofu semur" and "egg semur".

Same herbs, spices, and seasoning, just different protein.

Just like most authentic Indonesian recipe, the spices and herbs used in this recipe is quite elaborate.

Stir it fried for a few seconds.

This blog post contains a recipe for smoor djawa which will show you how to make a traditional and easy Indonesian meat stew from the Island of Java.