Bakso | Indonesian Meatballs

Being Indonesian, I can’t not like bakso.  Bakso or  meatballs in English, made from beef mince and eat it with egg noodles and vegetables.  In Indonesia bakso is often sold in the street on little cart.  In Australia you can find ready to eat bakso at the oriental supermarket, in frozen section.  Not knowing what kind of chemicals and preservative the ready one that sold in the market, I try to make home-made bakso.

My friend Aimee who lives in Dubai and expert in cooking Indonesian meal, gave me her bakso recipe and since then I always use this recipe.

Ingredients:

to make the bakso/meatballs

-minced beef 500 gr
-3 cloves garlic, chopped
-tapioka starch 200 gr
-salt and pepper, taste
-chicken stock, 2 tspn
-baking powder 2 tspn
-cold water (from the fridge) 1/2 cup
-egg

mixed all the ingredients above together, set aside for 15 minutes. then make a little ball one by one.

meanwhile, for the soup:

beef bone 1/2 kg
1 clove garlic
2 litres water

boil beef bones in 2 liter water for about 1 hours. then add the bakso into the boiling soup and cook until the bakso is firm.

serve with egg noodles, some green vegetables (bok choy/cut spring onion) couple boiled tofu, top with fried onions, and chilli sauce.