Stewed Beef with Tomato, Radish and Lemongrass

(Bò kho) - Stewed Beef with tomato. Vietnamese also use this dish for breakfast, they eat with noodles, bread or rice. 

To cook Stewed Beef with tomato, you must spend a lot of time to stew beef, because it is more delicious when eating a soft beef than a hard beef. 

 Ingredients

- Beef:  1kg  (delicious and more specifically meat encrusted)

- Powdered beef stew:  30g  (you can buy it in Vietnam market)

- Tomatoes special: 50-70g (tomato paste)

- 5-7 cloves of lemongrass

- 3 Siamese coconut fruits

- 1 Big garlic

- Purple onion/shallot

- 1 small clove ginger

- 3 carrots, 1 large white radish (or 2 small bulbs)

- Bean sprouts, herbs ...

-  Spices: sugar, salt, pepper, monosodium, chili ...

- Corn starch

 Process

* Prepare 

- Crush beef with salt, ginger wine. Then, washed, sliced ​​into pieces as you want

- Clean, peel off the cover and cut White radish ​​carrots  

- Peeled ginger, and finely grinding

- Mince garlic, leave 2 cloves garlic

- Peel chopped purple onion

- 15g beef powder soaked with 1/2-cup water

- Barrage lemongrass

* Cooking

- Marinate beef: 1.5 teaspoon powder, 1 teaspoon the salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, 4 tablespoon oil 15g beef stew powder, marinated onion, garlic, and ginger chopped for 1 hour 

- Fry 2 minced cloves and lemongrass for fragrant, fried beef until cooked, poured cup of soaked powder beef stew, then fried until absorb beef.

- Add Siamese coconut, tomato into pot boiled and skim off foam, covered them, until the meat is soft. Then, add coconut water, carrots, and radishes taste with 2 teaspoon seasonings, 2 teaspoon salt, and 2 teaspoon sugar, when everything are soft, taste again to suit your flavor. Finally, add Corn starch mixed with the broth until thick enough.

- Stewed Beef with Tomato, Radish and Lemongrass can be served with noodles or use with bread or hot rice is also very good.