Spicy beef jerky (dendeng balado)

Ingredients

• Dendeng Balado (Spicy Beef Jerky)
• Balado is versatile hot spicy sauce of Padang Food. We can cook it with eggplants or beef or prawns or eggs (boiled or fried).
• Ingredients
• 500 grams lean beef meat (silver or topside)
• Vegetable oil for deep frying
• Pinch of salt
• Ingredients for the sauce
• 10 red finger-length chilies, finely sliced
• 3 cloves garlic chopped
• 5 shallots, finely sliced
• 1 medium tomato, deseeded and chopped
• 1 teaspoon sugar (optional)
• Pinch of salt
• 2 kaffir-lime leaves

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Preparation

• To make the sauce:
  
  grind all ingredients (except the kaffir-lime leaves) to a smooth paste in a mortar or blender, adding a little oil if necessary to keep the moisture turning.
  
  Cut the meat more or less around 3 mm thick, 3 cm wide and 3 cm length. Rub the salt onto the meat.
  
  Deep fry the meat on a medium heat oil until brown and crispy. Set aside for a few minutes then pat dry with towel paper.
  
  Heat 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a wok over medium heat, Stir fry the seasoning and kaffir-lime leaves until fragrant and cooked around 10 minutes.
  
  Add the fried meat into the wok and mix well with the seasoning sauce for 1 minute. Remove from heat, discard the kaffir-lime leaves.
  
  Serve warm with rice.