rendang

plural rendangs

1. uncountableusuallyAn Indonesian dish of beef (or sometimes other meat) slowly cooked in coconut milk.

   1 more example

   Look for gado-gado and lothek, a pair of vegetable salads with crunchy highlights, awash in sauce that’s hand-ground (and spiced to order) for each customer; combro, a deep-fried, chili-spiked croquette of grated cassava; satay plates of skewered beef and chicken, accompanied by peanut sauce and blocks of sticky rice; the long-simmered stew called beef rendang; chicken or beef noodle soup; and cendol, iced coconut milk laden with green rice noodles and tiny cubes of colored jelly, and laced with palm sugar.

   2009 May 27, Dave Cook, “A Little Taste of Somewhere Else”, in New York Times