🍲 Soto Betawi

Name: Soto Betawi
Total time: 120 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Indonesia · Jakarta
Ingredients: 600 g beef brisket or shin, cubed; 400 ml coconut milk; 2 medium potatoes, cubed; 2 tomatoes, cut into wedges; 2 scallions, sliced; 4 shallots and 3 garlic cloves, pounded; 2 cm ginger, 2 lemongrass stalks, 3 lime leaves; 1 tsp coriander seeds, ground; salt, pepper; 1.5 l water, 1 tbsp oil

Origin: Indonesia · Jakarta

580kcal

per serving · 400 g

145kcal

per 100 g

36 gProtein9 g / 100 g

36 gFat9 g / 100 g

28 gCarbs7 g / 100 g

Soto Betawi is Jakarta's rich beef soup, where tender chunks of beef simmer in a broth enriched with coconut milk until it turns creamy and pale. Potato, fresh tomato and scallion are added to every bowl, and the soup is usually eaten with steamed rice, chilli sambal and a squeeze of lime to cut through the richness.

Diets

✓

No porkfor halal, the meat must be halal-slaughtered

✓

Gluten-freeno wheat, barley or rye in a typical recipe

✓

Dairy-freeno milk, cheese, butter or yogurt in a typical recipe

✓

Low-carb7 g carbs per 100 g

Not vegetarianbecause of: beef

Not veganbecause of: beef

Allergens

None of the 14 major allergens in a typical recipe.

What it is made of

beefcoconut milkpotatotomatoscallion

Recipe

4 servings120 min

Ingredients

600 g beef brisket or shin, cubed
400 ml coconut milk
2 medium potatoes, cubed
2 tomatoes, cut into wedges
2 scallions, sliced
4 shallots and 3 garlic cloves, pounded
2 cm ginger, 2 lemongrass stalks, 3 lime leaves
1 tsp coriander seeds, ground; salt, pepper
1.5 l water, 1 tbsp oil

Method

Simmer the beef in the water for about 1 hour until tender, skimming the foam.
Fry the shallots, garlic, ginger and coriander in the oil until fragrant, then add to the pot with the lemongrass and lime leaves.
Add the potatoes and cook 15 minutes.
Stir in the coconut milk and heat gently without boiling hard for 5 minutes; season.
Serve with tomato wedges and scallion on top, plus lime and chilli on the side.

How to make it lighter

Use light coconut milk or half coconut milk, half broth.
Choose lean beef and trim visible fat before simmering.
Count the potatoes as your starch and keep the side of rice small.

History

The dish is named after the Betawi, the native people of the Jakarta area, and it is one of the city's signature street foods. Today it is sold by dedicated soto stalls and restaurants all over Jakarta.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →