Grilled Beef/Boiled Beef Kampong Style

In my home state of Kedah, Eidil Adha is celebrated on a grand scale. The act of 'Qurban' or sacrifice is done by the faithful every year.

The fresh meat obtained from the Qurban is often just boiled or grilled and then sliced thinly and eated with a simple tamarind sauce (air asam), together with plain white rice.

The marinate and 'air asam' is prepared as follows:

Marinate for grilled meat:
1.5 cm ginger
2 large onions
salt to taste
fresh turmeric rhizome.
All the above ingredients are grounded and used to marinate the meat and then placed in aluminium foil or banana leaves.The wrapped meat is cooked in an oven or above a grill or barbeque pit.

If boiling, just place all marinated ingredients in a pot and add water to cover the meat. Cook until all the water evaporates. Take care not to burn the meat by adding more water as necessary.

'Air Asam' used as dip.

2 tablespoon tamarind juice
1cup water to extract tthe tamarind juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
5 bird chillies
2 large onions, sliced
2cm shrimp paste (belacan)
lime juice ((3 limes if using kasturi limes or 1 if using normal lime (limau nipis), or 1/2(lemon))

The bird chillies, shrimp paste are pounded or grounded before being added to the tamarind and lime juices and sliced onions.

To make a tastier dip, sliced lemon grass, roasted dessicated coconut (kerisik) and sugar are pounded and added to the dip.