Gadon (Steamed Chopped Meat in Banana Leaves)

Gadon is a traditional Javanese cuisine from Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. Gadon - or digado from Javanese language - means a dish that eaten alone without additional rice. But in fact, mostly people eat Gadon with nasi or rice. Actually, Gadon is similar with Pepes, which is using a kind of cooking method of steaming the ingredients (fish, chicken, tofu, or mushroom) wrapped in banana leaves until it becomes tender, then grilling the packets. But unlike the Pepes, Gadon is from chopped meat and it is not be grilled. Here the recipe:

Ingredients:
250 gr beef chopped meat
1 egg
2 bay leaves
2 kaffir lime leaves (daun jeruk), slice very thin
4 red pepper, slice
60 ml coconut milk
Banana leaves and palm leaf rib to wrap

Spice, grind the following ingredients:
¼ tsp coriander
4 cloves of shallot
3 cloves of garlic
½ tsp salt
½ tsp palm sugar

How to make it:

1. Put together beef chopped meat, coconut milk and egg.
2. Add grinding spices, bay leaves and kaffir lime leaves.
3. Put a table spoon of batter in banana leaves, put sliced of red pepper on top of it and wrapped. Pin with palm leaf rib.
4. Arrange in hot steamer, and steamed until cooked.
5. Serve warm with rice (nasi).