Beef Black Soup (Nasi Rawon)

Rawon or Rawon Rice (because of often served with rice) is a meal con­sists of spe­cial spicy beef soup because of con­tain­ing keluak (fruits of kepayang tree used as a spice). It is not only known as spe­cial food of Jawa Timur but also as spe­cial food of east­ern Jawa Ten­gah (Surakarta region)

Com­monly, beef con­sumed in rawon is cut into bite sized pieces. The very spe­cial spicy soup of Indone­sia is grinded mix­ture of spices, and then cooks in some oil till it is aro­matic. Then this spice put into boiled stock along with beef. The spe­cial dark/black color of rawon comes from keluak as prime spice. It is served with rice, com­pleted with small bean sprouts, leek, chips, and sam­bal.

Rawon

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Rawon Rice Recipe

Ingre­di­ent:

• 500 g beef san­dung lamur
• 3 chilies, remove the seed
• 1 part terasi
• 6 onions
• Salt as necessary
• 1 roasted tamarind as big as kemiri
• 2 tsp coriander
• 2 keluak (friuts of kepayang)
• 1 part turmeric
• 1 part galangale
• 1 stalk of serai (lemongrass/citronella)

Com­ple­ment:

• Rice
• Sam­bal taoge (bean sprouts sambal0
• Egg of salted fish
• Jerked meat
• Shrimp chips
• Bean Sprouts Sambal
• Grind red pep­pers, terasi, and salt, then add some small bean sprouts. Mix them.

Direc­tions:

1. Clean beef and boil it rarely, remove and cut into small pieces.
2. Grind spices except serai and galan­gale then sauté at higher tem­per­a­ture. Put grinded spice into boil­ing beef, add serai and galan­gale. Cook until beef becomes well-done.
3. Serve in hot. Put some rice into a bowl, pour rawon, and add cut of egg of salted fish, fried jerked meat, bean sprouts sam­bal, and shrimp chips.