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Rendang Padang
Elvi Roslina Chaniago
Head chef, Rumah Makan Sarai Ijau, Padang, ID
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Rendang Padang

5 h 30 min total180 min hands-onServes 8Hard

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This is a fry, not a stew; the dish only begins when the coconut milk breaks and the oil comes back out.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

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BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
36 cm heavy-based wok or kuali, Stone mortar (batu lado) or a heavy blender, Coconut grater and a pressing cloth
Allergens
Tree nut (candlenut), Coconut
Method
28 steps · 22 photographed · 8 filmed
Components
3 made from scratch
Films
3, 39 min

3 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Bumbu giling

Film

Fresh aromatics and chilies ground to a smooth wet paste, the backbone of the whole dish.

Jarred pastes are pre-cooked and acidified, and fresh galangal fibre changes how the sauce sits.

  • Long red chilies000 g
  • Bird's eye chilies000 g
Steps
6
Time
45 min
Hands-on
35 min

Makes About 900 g, enough for 2 kg beef; 3 days chilled

A day ahead, but fry it the day you use it

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Santan (two pressings)

Film

Grated fresh coconut pressed twice, giving thick first-press milk and thinner second-press milk.

Canned milk carries stabilisers that stop it breaking, and the breaking is the entire technique.

  • Mature coconuts000 g
  • Warm water000 g
Steps
5
Time
40 min
Hands-on
30 min

Makes 1.2 L thick and 1.8 L thin from 4 coconuts; same day only

The morning of service, it sours by evening

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Daun and asam bundle

Bruised lemongrass, torn turmeric leaf and lime leaf with sour asam kandis, tied for the pot.

Dried leaves give colour and nothing else, and turmeric leaf in particular must be fresh or frozen.

  • Lemongrass000 g
  • Fresh turmeric leaf000 g
Steps
4
Time
15 min
Hands-on
12 min

Makes One bundle per 2 kg beef; cut and used the same day

Cut it while the bumbu is frying

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Beef shin or chuck000 g
  • Mature coconuts000 g
  • Long red chilies000 g
  • Shallots000 g
  • Galangal000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 39 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING12:00

Buying Coconuts, Turmeric Leaf and the Right Beef

TECHNIQUE18:00

Gulai to Kalio to Rendang: Reading the Three Stages

KIT9:00

The Kuali, the Flame and Four Hours of Stirring

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 28 STEPS

22 photographed · 8 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 22 of the 28 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 8 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: catching the moment santan breaks — step 17 of 28.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 22 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Elvi Roslina Chaniago watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Stopping at kalio and calling it rendang

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    A pan too narrow to evaporate anything

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Adding kerisik to rescue a sauce that only needs time

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The last hour is frying rather than simmering, and the switch happens at a moment you have to watch for once to know.

Written by Elvi Roslina Chaniago. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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