How To Make Soto Betawi

Soto Betawi is one of my favorite foods. Yet, I couldn't find it easily in Japan. Therefore, I decided to make it by myself. I found the recipe from Cookpad and I did some modification that here is my own version.

Ingredient (the amount is as much as the picture):

1. Beef

2. Shallots

3. Garlic

4. Ginger

5. Cumin

6. Candlenut

7. lemongrass leaf

8. Bay leaves

9. Cinnamon

10. Tomatoes

11. Potatoes

12. Coconut milk powder

13. Milk

14. Leeks

15. Salt

16. Sugar

17. White pepper

18. Flavorings

Procedure:

1. Cut the beef into pieces

2. Boil the beef for 15 minutes in the pot. Then, remove the water since there are so many bubbles produced from the meat. Replace and boil again the beef with new water for around 30 minutes.

3. Grind the shallots, garlic, ginger, cumin, and candlenut. Then stirfry it.

4. Add the lemongrass leaf, bay leaves, and cinnamon into the spices no. 3. 

5. Move the spices into the pot.

6. Add the coconut milk powder and the milk.

7. Adjust the taste with the salt, sugar, white pepper, and flavorings.

8. While waiting for the meat cooked, cut the potatoes, tomatoes, and leeks into pieces.

9. Fry the potatoes, after that, put them into the pot.

10. Put the pieces of tomatoes and leeks also into the pot.

11. Keep cooking all the ingredient in the pot until cooked.

12. Do not forget to taste it, if everything is okay, now your Soto Betawi is ready to be served.

How To Make Cakwe

The one that I missed during Ramadhan is Cakwe. Almost every breaking fasting time, I eat Cakwe at home. I love Cakwe very much. But, in Japan, I couldn't find it but I didn't give up, so I tried to make it by myself. After googling, seeing cookpad, and youtube, here is my recipe: 

Ingredient:

1. Wheat flour

2. Baking powder

3. Yeast

4. Garlic powder

5. Salt

6. Water

7. Vegetable oil

Procedure:

1. Put the wheat flour in the bowl.

2. Add baking powder and yeast around 1/10 of the wheat flour used. Add the garlic and salt as you want.

3. Add a little amount of water (do not too much), then mix it well

4. Add a little amount of vegetable oil too, then mix it

5. Prepare another bowl, cover the surface with the vegetable oil

6. Put the dough and add more oil and spread it along the dough

7. Cover it with plastic

8. Keep it in the fridge overnight

9. Check the texture, if still sticky, you can add more wheat flour

10. Next, it's time to make the shape. Prepare the cutting board by spreading the wheat flour on its surface in order to make it less sticky

11. Put the dough like the picture below

12. Cut the dough like the shape below

13. Put one piece on to another piece

14. Use the chopstick to make a splitting

15. Heat the vegetable oil, wait until hot, then fry the dough. Do not forget to pull the dough so it will stretch like the shape of Cakwe.

16. It's easy right, now you can have it with sambal kacang or mayonnaise. If you want to know how to make sambal kacang, I will tell you in a different post.