How to Cook Appetizing Sour Spicy Beef Soup (Asem Asem Daging)

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

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Ingredients of Sour Spicy Beef Soup (Asem Asem Daging)

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

Clean, cut the beef cube or shank. Prepare the rest of the ingredients, wash clean and cut accordingly. Heat some oil in a frying pan, stir fry the shallot and garlic. The soup will be a mixture of sour, spicy, sweet and salty at the same time.

Sour Spicy Beef Soup (Asem Asem Daging) instructions

  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..

The origin Spicy and Sour Indonesian Beef Soup actually came from Central Java, we used to call it 'asem-asem daging' in Indonesian language. This dish mainly consists of slices of meet, usually beef but sometimes we can use poultry also, red chilies (oh yeah, a lot is better!), garlic and shallot. Bring water to a boil, reduce heat and add in beef shanks. Heat oil on a pan, sauté spices until tender and fragrant. Asem-asem buncis represents the perfect harmony of sweet, sour and salty.