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Indonesian Lamb Soup
Serves 4
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Delicacy from Indonesia, fragrant lamb soup using special ingredients e.g. kaffir lime leaves, lemon grass, galangal, Indonesian soy sauce.
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Ingredients:
- * 1 kg of lamb -
(I added a few pcss of lamb ribs for flavors)
- * 1 liter coconut milk (canned or packaged is fine)
- * 1/2 cabbage - roughly chopped
- * 4 pcs whole cloves
- * 2 pcs red tomatoes, chopped
- * 1 stalk of lemon grass - bruised
- * 2 cm galangal
- * 4 pcs kaffir lime leaves
- * 6 pods of cardamoms
- * 3 cm cinnamon stick
- * 10 pcs red (or bird eyeâÂÂs) chilies, sliced
Processed (paste) Ingredients:
- * 8 pcs shallots
- * 6 pcs garlic
- * 2 cm fresh garlic
- * 5 pcs candlenuts - flame roasted would taste better
- * 1/2 tsp coriander seeds - toasted would taste better
- * 1/2 tsp cumin powder
Method
step 1
In a pressure cook, boil lamb in 1 ltr water until tender enoughstep 2
Stir fry processed ingredients until fragrant. Add lemon grassstep 3
Mix in the cooked ingredients into lamb pot, add the rest of ingredients. Let it cook for a while, stir in coconut milkstep 4
Add chopped cabbage, tomatoes & chilies. Let it cooked throughstep 5
Ready to serve with warm steamed rice on the sidestep 6
and sprinkles of fried shallots (Indonesians call it bawang goreng)
