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Friday, November 1, 2013

11:42 PM
The meatballs, bakso or baso or indonesian beef ball

BAKSO or baso is Indonesian meatball or meat paste made from beef surimi and is similar in texture to the Chinese beef ball, fish ball, or pork ball.
Bakso is normally served with noodles. To spice it up you can use chili sauce, soy sauce, tomato ketchup, Fried shallot/onion, chopped spring onion, noddle, vercimili noddle, sawi hijau or choy sum, Chinese chive, afterall, It is your own bakso creation , so you can do whatever you want to in order to make it taste good

Make your own Bakso
ingredients:
1 kilo of very fine minced meat (preferably beef)
2 eggs
300 grams of tapioca-flour
4-8 cloves of garlic
1 red onion
1 teaspoon of white pepper
2 teaspoons of salt
ice cubed as needed

Mix garlic, red onion, salt, and white pepper in a mortar or mixer. Mix the spice-mixture with the eggs, the tapioca-flour and the minced meat. Use your fingers, add a cup of water, and keep on working until the mixture feels soft and smooth. the keep in the fridge overnight,
the next day, thaw the beef ball mixture,
Boil some water in a rather large pot, at least about 2 liters. Start rolling the mixture into small meatballs. Lower the meatballs into the boiling water. When they float up to the surface they are ready then transfered it to bowl of icy cold water.

The soup
1 liter chicken bouillon
3-7 cloves of garlic
1 red onion
salt and pepperFry the finely chopped red onion together with the garlic and add salt and pepper. Stir down the mixture into 1 liter of chicken bouillon and add a cup of water. Heat the soup until it boils and then put in the meatballs. Let it simmer for a minute or two before you serve your bakso.


Use the food processor and ground the meat. After 3 hours in the freezer, put the meat paste in the standing mixer and add the rest of the ingredients and beat for 15 minutes.


Place the meat paste in the fridge overnight, the thaw when you are about to make beef ball


Boiled a pot of water, add some garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Then start making beef balls, press the beef paste out through the thumb and index fingers into a pot of boiling water.
Remove them as soon as they are cooked, and put them in the ice water

finally.. the final product..  now you can put in in whatever you like 
Bakso - a tasty Indonesian meatball soup





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