Sayo Kerrie

Sayo Kerrie (Indonesian meal-soup)
250 gr. soup-beef (small pieces)
2 onions
200 gr. green beans
4 small potatoes
2 toes of garlic, pressed
2 teaspoons sambal oelek
4 teaspoons of fresh ginger
2 teaspoons koenjit (kurkuma)
2 teaspoons ketoembar (coriander)
1 teaspoon djintan (cumin)
1 teaspoon trassi (shrimp paste)
2 salam leaves
2 teaspoons of brown sugar
2 teaspoons of kerrie
1 broth block (bouillonblok)

Clean the onions, cut 1 in 4 pieces and the other one in snippets. Take a pan, fill up with 3/4 ltr. water, the beef, the onion in 4 parts and the broth block. Put the fire low and let the beef draw for 1 hour. In the meantime, make with a mortar a paste of onion snippets, garlic, sambal, ginger, koenjit, ketoembar, djintan and trassi. Fry this paste in a soup-pan in a little bit of butter. Add the broth and the beef. Add sugar, kerrie and salam leaves. Let everything bubble shortly and put the fire low. Peel the potatoes and cut them in small blocks. Clean the beans and cut them in half. Add the potatoes first and cook for approx. 8 min. Add the beans and cook for 15-20min until they are ready. Serve with white rice.