Black Pepper Beef In Sweet Soya Sauce ( Daging Masak Kicap )

Yesterday I realise that I haven't been cooking rice since the first day of Ramadan so I chose to cook my family's favourite dish of Black Pepper Beef with Sweet Soya Sauce with rice for iftar. Everyone enjoyed their meal. Alhamdulillah. Hope you'll enjoy it too!


Black Pepper Beef In Sweet Soya Sauce ( Daging Masak Kicap )


Ingredients:

1 kg beef ( thinly sliced)
10 dried red chillies ( cut, soak in water & drain)
3 large red onions ( coarsely chopped)
5 cloves of garlic
an inch of ginger
1 tbspn black peppercorns
1 tbspn cumin powder
1 cup of sweet soya sauce ( kicap manis)
4-5 cups of water
some olive oil for frying paste
some sea salt
3-4 potatoes (peel skin, quartered & fry in olive oil and set aside)
2 tomatoes (cut into cubes)


Methods: 

1) Blend, dried chillies with little water till it become a paste, then add in the onions, garlic, ginger, black peppercorns and cumin powder and blend it further till it becomes a smooth paste.

2) Heat cooking pot with some olive oil and fry the paste till fragrant. Add in the meat and fry for a few more minutes. Add in sweet sauce & 3-4 cups of water and cook till the beef is tender. Stir the gravy every now and then. Add in more water if gravy becomes too little. 

3) Once the meat is cooked, add in little sea salt to taste. Add the potatoes and stir for a while. Lastly, add the tomato cubes and turn off the heat. 

P.S. This gravy is best eaten with hot piping rice. Simple & delicious!