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Malaysian black beef stew

In an extract from her book ‘Simply Malaysian: Everyday Dishes to Cook at Home’, Mandy Yin shows us how to combine sweet and savoury to brilliant effect for a spicy beef stew.
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Louise Hagger

My favourite Malaysian eatery in London is Dapur in Holborn. You must try their daging masak hitamnblack-cooked beef, if you ever see it on their menu. This is my recreation of it. Sweet, with a deep depth of flavour from soy sauce, but with a hefty chilli kick. You can’t help but go in for more!

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Simply Malaysian: Everyday Dishes to Cook at Home (Hardback), Quadrille Publishing Ltd, Mandy Yin

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A recipe for Malaysian black beef stew