Bakso [ Indonesian Meatball Soup ]

Gulai is a type of food containing rich, spicy and succulent curry-like sauce commonly found in Indonesia and Malaysia. The main ingredients might be poultry, beef, mutton, various kinds of offals, fish and seafoods, and also vegetables such as cassava leafs and unripe jackfruit. The gulai sauces commonly have a thick consistency with yellowish color because of the addition of ground turmeric. Gulai is often described as an Indonesian type of curry, although Indonesian cuisine also recognize kari or kare (curry).

Ingredients

• 2 kg of mixed mutton bones (ribs, lemusir, brisket, thighs). It could be from  other materials, as   young jackfruit and fish.
• 4 ltr water
• 5 tablespoons vegetable oil.
• 1 pc onion, sliced ​​thin.
• Lbr 4 lime leaves
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 stalk lemongrass, crushed
• 5 cm cinnamon
• 4 cloves btr.
• 250ml thick coconut milk

Spices

• 3 tbsp coriander
• 1 rounded tablespoon pepper
• 1 tsp white cumin
• 1 tsp kelabet
• 5 green cardamom btr
• 5 btr garlic
• 10 pcs of red onion
• 3 cm ginger
• 5 cm galangal
• 3 cm turmeric
• 1 / 8 bj nutmeg

How to make

1. Bakso or baso is Indonesian meatball or meat paste made from beef surimi and is similar in texture to the Chinese beef ball, fish ball, or pork ball. Bakso is commonly made from beef with a small quantity of tapioca flour, however bakso can also be made from other ingredients, such as chicken, fish, or shrimp. Bakso are usually served in a bowl of beef broth, with yellow noodles, bihun (rice vermicelli), salted vegetables, tofu, egg (wrapped within bakso), Chinese green cabbage, bean sprout, siomay or steamed meat dumpling, and crisp wonton, sprinkled with fried shallots and celery.
2. Bakso can be found all across Indonesia; from the traveling cart street vendors to restaurants. Today various types of ready to cook bakso also available as frozen food commonly sold in supermarkets in Indonesia. Slices of bakso often used and mixed as compliments in mi goreng, nasi goreng, or cap cai recipes.
3. Unlike other meatball recipes, bakso has a consistent firm, dense, homogeneous texture due to the polymerization of myosin in the beef surimi.

Ingredients for Beef Meatball (Bakso) Soup

•     400 g veal bone
•     Air 4 ltr

Seasoning For Beef Meatball Soup

•     5 cloves garlic, fried and mashed
•     Red onion 4 cloves, fried and mashed
•     Fried onions 1/2 tablespoon, mashed
•     Sugar 2 tsp
•     salt 1 tbsp
•     Pepper 1/2 tsp
•     4 stalks scallion, white part, thinly sliced
•     Instant beef broth, 2 tsp

How to Make Beef Meatballs Soup

1. Boil the water
2. Enter all of the ingredients and seasonings together including onions and garlic.
3. Wait until boiling and mature bone
4. Then reduce the heat and let the sauce will still be above the stove.

Beef Meatballs Recipe

•     250gr ground beef
•     2 tablespoons fried shallots
•     1 tablespoon garlic fries
•     1/2 teaspoon pepper
•     1 tsp salt
•     50 g of starch
•     40 g ice cubes, crushed
•     2 ltr of water to boil bakso

How to Make Bakso

• Insert meat, onion, pepper, salt, and flour in a food processor or blender. Milled until  smooth and well blended
• Add ice cubes if the batter buckled and hard formed
• Heat the water over low heat until almost boiling
• Can be rounded off when the squeezed by hand, then removed through the aperture formed by the forefinger and thumb.
• Then cut with a spoon and put the meatballs in hot water.
• Do it until all the dough is finished
• Raising the heat and cook until all the meatballs float.
• Pick up all the meatballs and drain.

Manner of Presentation :

Enter or vermicelli noodles into a bowl. Place the meatballs on top of the noodles and add the other ingredients, such as fried tofu and vegetables. Flush with sauce and sprinkle with fried onions on top of the meatballs were still hot. Add chili sauce and soy sauce to make it more delicious.

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