Beef Tripe Meat Soup

Ichi's Fusion Recipes: Beef tripe soup - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti

What is that beef tripe? Have you ever heard before? In this article, I would like to share a healthy beef soup by choosing beef tripe meat. For you who are a beef lover, to reduce your consumption of beef meat and want a healthy choice, you may try this recipe. As my passion, of course, this is an easy soup yet tasty and healthy!😉🤞

Back then in my hometown, villagers consumed meat only during the festive season day. On other days for most of the whole year, it was just a random veggies menu complete with fried tempeh, fried tofu, or cracker. If they picked another protein, the egg was the choice. Every household would buy chicken meat and made a chicken curry or soup (Indonesian soup) on that special occasion. Meanwhile, beef, only high society afford and bought it. So, meat wasn't a daily menu in my hometown at that time, it was a special menu for a special occasion or event. No wonder, the old generation in my village had a long life and less having health issues; one of my grandmas lived until above 100 years. Sadly, nowadays, the young generation in my village loves to eat meat on the daily menu since the meat is to show how wealthy they are and their social status. That's completely wrong mind, but I can't help. Indeed, it is a social issue that I have noticed since many years ago when I lived in the village.

In my view, eating meat is just fine but in moderation which means not every day. If we want to eat meat, it must come along with a bunch of vegetables. That is what in my opinion in order to get balance. At home, buying any meat, it could be chicken or beef, once in a while. Whereas for fish, I often pick it for our protein, Indeed, I would rather eat fish than meat since my body rejects meat. Therefore, I made beef tripe soup in December last year. Yes, I cooked this recipe a few months ago, and until today I haven't cooked beef again. Of course, I didn't it this dish no matter exquisite this meal was.

Speaking of which, what is beef tripe meat? Back then in my hometown, every part of farm animal had been sold at the market; from the chicken intestine, feet, beef tripe, oxtail, head, et cetera. No wonder there is a tail ox soup in Indonesia, fried chicken heart, stir fry chicken feet, including beef tripe, and many other recipes that use organs from farm animals. Special in this article, I am going to share how to make beef tripe soup. Let's check it out!😉

Ingredient:

300 g of beef tripe
15 g of garlic powder
15 g onion powder
7-10 g of lemongrass
7 g Garlic and herb seasoning

Garlic and herb that I am used to adding to some of my recipes - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti

20 g low sodium salt
10 g black pepper
about 1800-2000 ml of water
1 big yellow onion - chop it
6-8 shallot - chop it
6 cloves of garlic - chop it
2-4 kaffir lime leaves
30 ml of olive oil

These are what you do:

Wash the beef tripe meat. Boil beef tripe for about 1 and a half until 2 hours on medium-low flame. You can cut it into bite-size or thin-slice. Optional: we can add ginger for about 10 g when boiling the beef tripe meat