Rendang Raya

Rendang Raya
Ingredients
1 kg beef or mutton
1 cup of kerisik (dry-fried grated coconut)
4 bowls of coconut milk
squeezed from 2 whole coconuts
8 kaffir lime leaves
2 pieces of turmeric leaves (finely shredded)
1 tablespoon tamarind
juice
Salt (to taste)
Gula Melaka (palm sugar to taste)
Ingredients, ground into a paste: 2 stalks lemon grass

3-cm ginger
3-cm galangal (lengkuas)
3 cloves
20 shallots
15 dried chillies, already softened in water
5 pieces of garlic

Method
Fry the paste with the meat in a wok for about 15 minutes. No oil is required. Add in the kaffir lime leaves, turmeric leaves and kerisik. Pour in the coconut milk, tamarind juice. Add salt and gula melaka. Cook the meat till it is tender and the gravy is very thick. Keep stirring and lower the heat to prevent the gravy and meat from burning.