Nothing possibly better than a tender braised beef meat and a melted bone marrow in a cold and rainy days. Chinese hot and sour soup is one of ancient secrec that belived to booster your imune system and warmed the digestive system through a hard winter. There’s several repices for hot and sour soup available, but i thing this version is really suits for my licking. This hor and sour soup maybe similiar to PINDANG, a hot and sour soup from South Sumatras Province with a little tangy flavour from a sweet soy sauce. PINDANG got the sour from tamarind paste instead of black vinegar, but actually i use both of them within this soup. Another popular braised beef recipe from Indonesia is SEMUR, a tangy sweet soy sauce braised beef with a lot of spices.
When you dealing with beef shank, choose the beef shank that contains more meat attached to the femur bone. Since the braised beef shank meat will shrink in the cooking process. Choose the bone-in shank with similiar size for similiar doness. Always put the marrow bone facing up to prevent it melted and dissolved during the process. I got the bone-in beef shank in traditional butchers, note that the bone cutting is ir i regular, hehehe. But brought it amazingly cheap, 3 beef shank with sufficient meat still attached and weighted about 4 kilos for 15 USD.
Braised bone-in beef shank is called SUP SUM-SUM SAPI ASAM PEDAS or hot and sour bone marrow soup in Indonesia. Instead of the meat, the focus on the dish is the bone marrow. This soup is popular in North Sumatra Province. Bone marrow soup or Sup Sum-Sum Sapi usually serve with a large dingking straw or sedotan to suck the bone goodness.
Ingredients:
Chinese Hot and Sour Beef Soup Recipe:
- 4 kg bone-in beef shank or 1,5 kg beef meat (knuckle)
- 1 tsp tamarind paste
- 2 tbsp chinese black vinegar
- 10 chillies or more
- 1 tbsp HOMEMADE GARAM MASALA SPICE MIXTURE
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- 3 cm ginger
- salt and pepper to taste
- 3 kaffir lime leaves, deveined
- 4 lemongrass, bruised
- 2 tbsp sweet soy sauce
- 6 cherry tomatoes, cut in half
- 1 ripe tomatoes, deseeded, diced
- 6 beef cups stock/water
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- lemon basil leaves for garnish
Hot and sour soup spice paste :
- 10 shallot
- 12 garlic
- 6 red chillies cayenne pepper
- 6 or more cabe rawit or birds eye chillies
- 1 tbsp HOMEMADE GARAM MASALA SPICE MIXTURE
- 4 cm ginger
- 3 cm turmeric
- salt to taste
Instruction :
- Season the bone-in beef shank with garam masala, salt and pepper, marinade overnight in the fridge.
- Heat up 1 tbsp oil until sizzling hot, sear the shank all over, make sure all surface are throughly seared. set aside
- Heat up the 2 tbsp oil in a heavy bottom sauce pan, saute the spice paste with a low heat until the spice is throughly cooked. Visual aspect is the key! the oil is slowly separated and formed in the edge when it throughly cooked.
- Add lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, all tomatoes and the seared beef shankel. Stir another minute.
- Pour the stock and put the rest of the ingredients, arrange the beef shank bone marrow facing up, bring the liquid to boil.
- Reduce the heat and simmer until the hot and sour beef soup broth is thicken about 1-2 hours.
- Serve with steaming hot rice
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Sounds so flavourful Dedy. I hope this would work well too with lamb shanks.
🙂 Mandy
Whoa… your braised beef shank looks so goooood! I have never made it at home, but looking at this recipe, I hope to give it a try one day. It’s so worth the effort at the end…if mine comes out this good!
This looks wonderful! Another high-end recipe that you make seem effortless 🙂
Your dinner or this dish looks stunning, Dedy! Waw even! 🙂 Beautifully appetizing & wonderfully presented too! 🙂
So impressive. Sounds spicy and delicious.
waduh waduh ini kesukaan saya banget mas 😀 jadi laper neeh..
Just beautiful and delectable!
Since the ingredients are not what I have commonly in my pantry, unfortunately, it is an extra effort to go to specialized stores to get them.
Your dishes always look like what we can only order in a 5 star restaurants!
I am sure this tastes as delicious as it looks! And I love the use of garam masala!!!
lihat sumsum jadi ingat kaledo..
Nah, kaledo itu br denger aku mbak…..
sop kaki domba donggala.. itu sop paling enak sedunia yang daku makan dulu waktu tinggal di palu, dimakan dengan singkong rebus, eh ubi rebus orang sana bilang.. [kebalikbalik singkong dan ubi sih]
kuahnya bening sih ga penuh sumbu dan sambel gini..
aku taunya klo sup kaki lembu adanya di medan kak…hahaha
tp klo di Medan dimakannya ttp sama nasi….
pernah makan kaki lembu di medan yang diseruput pake sedotan.. enak juga, tetep lebih enak kaledo..
I really enjoy hot & sour soup, Dedy, but never had it made with beef shank. It sounds very good.
Kaffir lime itu apa ito? Jeruk purut?
iya to, jeruk purut…
bagus juga nama inggrisnya 😀
Your dinner looks incredibly flavoursome my friend, great job 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Looks amazing. All that marrow! Yum!
The beef shanks look so tender.
This lovely dish sees to have lovely flavours from all over the world; China, Thailand and India just to name a few… A fun and nourishing dish
Your dinner looks sooooooo yummy dek
Your braised beef shank looks hearty, and so flavourful!
this looks so good, love cooking meat on the bone, I made a good lamb curry the other day
Laparrr :sad:. Fotonya benar.benar bikin ngiler 😆 .
Beef shank stew on the bone – Wow that looks good!! Great photo’s too Dedy!
That first sentence sums it all up! So good looking, those shanks. We love marrow here.
It looks so good, makes me very hungry. Beautiful photos.
Puasa …… jadi lapar. Dikasih jeruk nipis + sambel kira2 makin makyus ngak yaaa ???? hehehe.
Aku demen banget masakan yg kayak gini
This is truly one gorgeous beef dish! The hot and sour soup spice really intrigues us!
Cheers! J+C
This looks like what I ordered in some fancy restaurant. This and your other creations, plating are fabulous! Great recipe!
Ohhh hwowwww look at those juicy strands of meat on the bone! All your dishes look pretty much to die for, and I’m learning a lot about cuisine that I’m not used to cooking. Nice 😀