Ingredients
# 600g beef, cubed
# 6 cups water
# 1 thumb-sized piece old ginger, smashed
# 1 thumb-sized piece galangal, smashed
# 1/2 a piece fresh turmeric leaf, shredded and knotted
# 1 stalk lemon grass, smashed
# 2 kaffir lime leaves, torn
# 1 tomato, halved
# 1 fresh red chilli, halved and seeded
# 1 lime, squeezed for juice
# 4 tbsp oil
Ground ingredients (combined)
# 14–15 dried chillies, soaked and seeded
# 10 shallots
# 6 cloves garlic
# 1½ cm piece ginger
# 5 candlenuts
# 1 star anise
# 3 cloves
# 3cm cinnamon stick
Seasoning
# 1 tsp sugar or to taste
# 1/2 tsp salt
# 1 tbsp fish sauce
Instructions
Put beef in a heavy-based saucepan. Add ginger and water. Bring to a low simmering boil, then cook over a gentle heat until meat is cooked.
Heat oil in a wok and fry ground ingredients, star anise, cloves and cinnamon stick until oil rises.
Add tomato, chilli, galangal and lemon grass. Fry until fragrant.
Pour cooked sauce ingredients into beef. Add turmeric leaf and continue to cook, stirring frequently until sauce thickens.
Squeeze in lime juice and add seasoning and kaffir lime leaves. Bring to a boil and dish out and serve.
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