Empal Gentong - beef in creamy and spicy coconut milk sauce

Empal Gentong
beef in creamy and spicy coconut milk sauce

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Bahan-bahan:
500 gr of beef
300 ml coconut milk (from 1/2 coconut)
11 red rawits
1/2 tsp cloves
2 cm cinnamon
1 star anise
3 cardamom
2 salam leaves
6 jeruk purut leaves
6 cm lengkuas/galangal/laos
3 serai/sereh/lemongrass, white part
1 tbsp salt
2 tbsp palm sugar
1500 ml of water
3 tbsp oil

Haluskan:
bumbu:
14 shallots
9 cloves of garlic
8 kemiri/candlenuts, roasted
2 tsp ketumbar, roasted
1/4 tsp jinten, roasted
1/2 tsp pepper
3 cm jahe/ginger
3 cm kunyit, roasted

Pelengkap:
complementary:
lontong
spring onion
Chinese chives
bawang goreng
lime wedges
krupuk

Cara membuat:
preparation:
Cut the meat into pieces. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu into a paste.
Heat the water in a pan together with the meat, the rawits, the cloves, the cardamom, the cinnamon, the star anise, the salam, the jeruk purut, the serai, the galangal, the palm sugar and the salt and cook the meat until done. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the bumbu for 7 minutes and add it to the meat. Then add the coconut milk and cook until done.
Spoon some lontong into a bowl and spoon the meat and sauce over it and serve it with the complementary.