Sour Spicy Beef Soup (Asem Asem Daging)
Sour Spicy Beef Soup (Asem Asem Daging)

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, sour spicy beef soup (asem asem daging). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Great recipe for Sour Spicy Beef Soup (Asem Asem Daging). This dish is a well known dish from Semarang (Central Java, Indonesia). The soup is so flavourful, with unique combination of sour, sweet, spicy). Note: pls adjust the amount of the chillies if you don't like.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook sour spicy beef soup (asem asem daging) using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sour Spicy Beef Soup (Asem Asem Daging):
  1. Take 500 gr beef cube/shank, cut cubed
  2. Prepare 2 liters water
  3. Get 200 gr french beans, cut like a matchstick
  4. Take 1 big carrot, cut like a matchstick
  5. Get 2 green/unripe green tomatoes
  6. Prepare 1/4 tsp pepper
  7. Make ready 1 tbsp sweet soya sauce (preferably Indonesian sweet soya sauce like bango or ABC brand)
  8. Take 1 piece gula melaka/brown sugar (about 50 gram)
  9. Make ready 4 tsp tamarind juice
  10. Take to taste Salt, sugar
  11. Take Stir Fry Ingredients
  12. Make ready 4 big green chillies, cut
  13. Make ready 1 big red chillies, cut
  14. Prepare 6 bird eye chillies/chilli padi, whole - no need to cut
  15. Take 6 shallots, slice thinly
  16. Get 3 garlics, slice thinly
  17. Prepare 4 cm galangal/blue ginger, cut and smashed a bit to release the flavour
  18. Get 3 pcs Indonesian bay leaves
  19. Make ready Oil

Its dominant flavor is tamarind, or asem, which also means "sour" in Indonesian - no wonder we call this soup asem-asem! Sayur asem is basically a mix of vegetables cooked in a sour tamarind soup, giving it a refreshing, slightly-acidic flavour. According to legend, this dish originated in the Jakarta area during the Dutch colonial period. The story goes: during the Dutch Occupation, people in Batavia (the old name for Jakarta) were poor, and had to eat anything on hand.

Instructions to make Sour Spicy Beef Soup (Asem Asem Daging):
  1. Clean, cut the beef cube or shank. Put in pressure cooker, add 2 litres of water and cook for 15-30 mins (beef shank 15 mins, beef cube 30 mins). Set aside.
  2. Prepare the rest of the ingredients, wash clean and cut accordingly
  3. Heat some oil in a frying pan, stir fry the shallot and garlic until fragrant and turn translucent. Add chillies, bay leaves, galangal. Continue cooking for few more minutes.
  4. Add the stir fried chillies/shallots/garlics to the beef soup. Turn on the fire again, add sweet soya sauce, brown sugar, salt, pepper, sugar. Add french beans and carrot, cook until soften. Lastly add the green tomatoes and tamarind juice. Cook for a few more minutes. I don’t cook the tomatoes until too soft/mushy.
  5. Taste, add any seasoning as needed. The soup will be a mixture of sour, spicy, sweet and salty at the same time. So refreshing
  6. Serve with warm rice 😋😋
  7. For me: at step 4, once I cook the shallots/garlics/chillies in the soup for a few minutes, I will take the chillies out from the soup and put them in separate bowl. Why? Because the longer you cook the chillies, the spicier your soup will be. And as I am cooking for the whole family, I don’t want the soup to be too spicy for my kids. We will add the chillies back before serving in our individual bowl.

According to legend, this dish originated in the Jakarta area during the Dutch colonial period. The story goes: during the Dutch Occupation, people in Batavia (the old name for Jakarta) were poor, and had to eat anything on hand. Asem-Asem (meat in sour soup) Koh Liem is very famous in Semarang. The place is very old and unique. Asem-asem come in a a choice of lean meat or with gravy.

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