Soto Betawi is a traditional Indonesian beef soup hailing from Jakarta, featuring tender beef, offal, and coconut milk in a fragrant broth. Enhanced with a blend of local spices, lemongrass, and kaffir lime leaves, it offers a rich and savoury flavour. Served with rice and garnished with fried shallots and lime, Soto Betawi is a beloved comfort dish, capturing the essence of Betawi cuisine with its unique and hearty taste.
Prep Time
20 min
Cook Time
1 hr 45 min
Servings
8 people
Difficulty
Medium
Ingredients
1 kg beef round cuts for stew, (may combines beef tendon and tribes), diced (2 x 2 cm)
3 cm cinnamon stick
3 cm ginger, smashed
4 cm galangal, smashed
5 kaffir lime
3 tbsp vegetable oil
1 liter water
2 liter vaporated or almond or coconut milk
Note: use almond for healthy options
Spice Paste (ground this ingredients)
1 teaspoon nutmeg
5 candlenuts
½ tablespoon salt
4 cloves garlic, minced
8 cloves shallot, minced
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp nutmeg
Condiments
4 tomatoes, sliced or diced
2 potatoes, diced and fried, or wedges
Fried shallots
Spring Onion, copped
Coriander leaves
Optional Condiments
Lime Juice
Fresh Chillies (sliced)
Sweet Soy Sauce
Bitternuts cracker
Instructions
Preheat oil in a deep pot, add cinnamon, gingger, galanggal and kaffir lime, and stir around half minute
Add spice paste ingredients, and stir until fargrant.
Add beef and keep stiring until the meat change colour and tender.
Add water and boil around one and half hour on medium heat.
Add milk (vaporated / almond / coconut) keep stirring slowly until simmer for around 5 minutes.
Turn off the heat, and Soto Betawi is ready to be served.
Serving
Pour soto into a bowl
Add or decorate the condiments ingredients on top of the soup
