Singgang Tulang

Yesterday, 2nd day of Ramadhan, I cooked Singgang Tulang. A favourite dish of my DH and my youngest daughter. It is popular in Kelantan, a state on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Both of us, my husband and I hail from there but from a different district. This dish is also a favourite of my MIL. Here's the recipe.

Singgang Tulang 

Ingredients:

500g of beef ribs

6 pieces of dried chilies

1/2inch of galangal

1inch of ginger

4 shallots

3 cloves garlic

2 stalk of lemongrass

1 tbs of coriander seed

4 tamarind flower

a small piece of shrimp paste

a little palm sugar

salt

Method:

Slice ginger, galangal, shallots, garlic n lemon grass finely. Cut the dried chilies into halves. Soak coriander seeds for a while and pound lightly. Marinate the sliced ingredients, dried chilies, tamarind flower, coriander seeds, shrimp paste, palm sugar and salt with the beef ribs for a few hours. Where possible, marinate it overnight.

Add water together with marinated ingredients in a pot, close the lid and bring it to boil until the beef is cooked and soft. Taste the salt, the sweetness and most of all the sourness from the tamarind flower.