Semur Daging (Slice Of Cooked Beef In Soya Sauce)
Roast or boiled beef, sliced thin, may be used. This is a splendid way of cooking leftovers from Sunday joint, or you can use meat from the cooked meat counter of your supermarket.
If you want to make Semur from uncooked meat, however, use fillet steak or topside; this makes it into much more of a party dish.
You can, of course, make Semur in very small quantities, but these ingredients will serve four people, with vegetables and rice.
Ingredients:
500 g (1 lb) roast or boiled beef, slice thin
2 shallots
1 clove garlic
2 tbs dark soya sauce
2 tbs clarified butter
2 hard-boiled eggs
1 large potato
1 large tomato
4 spring onions
White or black pepper
A pinch of gated nutmeg
Slice the shallots and crush the garlic. Peel the potato and slice it very thin. Peel and chop the tomato. Fry the shallots and garlic in the butter until lightly browned. Add the meat and potato slice, and saute for 1 minute. Add the chopped tomato, the soya sauce, pepper and nutmeg. Mix well, cover, and cook halves. Cook for another 5 minutes.
Put in the chopped spring onions just before serving, and garnish with fried onions.
If you use topside, cook a few minutes longer and put the potatoes in a few minutes after the meat.
This, incidentally, is one of the very few Indonesian dishes that you can cook with pork. Choose a good fillet, or use cold roast pork-but not pork with stuffing will ruin the taste of the sauce.
