Bakso - Indonesian Meatball Soup

Get ready for bakso! A flavour packed meatball soup from the streets of Indonesia, with the chewy texture we know and love. Complete with sambal and kecap manis for a sweet and spicy zing! Get the full measurements, tips and ideas to make it your own: https://www.wandercooks.com/bakso-ind...

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☕️ About this recipe:

Bakso (pronounced ‘bahk-soh’ with an almost silent ‘k’) means meatball in Indonesian. You’ll sometimes see it written as baso.

This popular street food dish is said to have originated in Malang. If it’s not being served from a street stall or at a food market, it’ll be dished up from street carts towed around by bike or motorbike.

It’s usually served up as a meatball soup (sup bakso), sometimes with noodles, tofu and/or wilted greens.

Depending on the type of meatballs used, it might be called bakso ayam (chicken meatballs), bakso sapi (beef meatballs) or bakso babi (pork meatballs).

🥒 Ingredients:

Bakso Ingredients:
400 g minced beef
100 g cornstarch / cornflour sub tapioca starch or potato starch
3 tsp garlic
⅓ cup ice water
1 egg
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp beef stock powder
1 tbsp fried shallot

Broth ingredients:
3 cups beef stock bone broth is best
1 spring onion chopped
2 tsp garlic
½ tsp ginger
½ stalk celery
1 lemongrass whole and crushed
½ tsp sugar
Salt and pepper to taste

Garnish ideas:
vermicelli rice noodles bihun
bok choy or gai lan, Chinese spinach etc
kecap manis / sweet soy sauce
sambal
eggs hard boiled
tofu

👩‍🍳 Recipe Steps:

00:00 - How to Make Bakso
00:04 - Season the beef mince and mix well
01:04 - Form into ping pong size meatballs
01:40 - Cook the meatballs until they float
01:56 - Make the soup broth
02:24 - Ladle broth over meatballs and noodles
02:34 - Garnish with kecap manis and sambal