Beef Rendang - My Mother's Recipe

This beef rendang is one of the many repertoire of dishes that have come to furnish her recipe folder over the last couple of decades. It is big, it is bold, it is complex as befitting a rendang. And please don't let the ingredient list frighten you, a lot of them are repeated (galangal, salt, sugar) and if you cook Asian food at home you may find that you have them already. You need these spices and flavours to get the whole full bodied beef rendang flavour. Apart from some initial work the stove top expends the rest of the effort and you can leave it for one and a half hours and do virtually nothing to it apart from steaming some rice to have with it.