Hot Sour Ribs Soup

Ingredients :

• 2 liters of water
• 1 kilograms of ribs
• 2 tomatoes, throw the seeds and cut in cubes
• 10 onions
• 7 garlics
• 5 -6 kaffir lime leaves
• 6 pieces of curly chili
• 1 piece of ginger, cut thin
• 1 piece of galangal
• 2 pieces of citronella
• salt and pepper
• 1 spoonful of Javanese tamarind which soluble into 5 spoonful of hot water then filter it
• 3 - 4 fish ketchup
• 10 belimbing wuluh, cut thick
• little chili and green chilies
• squeeze of limes from 1 -2 limes
• 1,5 ounces of stringbean

How to Cook :

1. Boil the ribs and the blood of the ribs are floating in the surface of water. Throw away those bloods so that the putrid taste has gone
2. Add some tomatoes
3. Cooked with a few of oil, garlics, onions, kaffir lime leaves, chilies, ginger, galangal, and some citronella until aromatic
4. Put the ribs with the water of ribs into the cooked of garlics and onions
5. Add some salt, pepper, the water of Javanese tamarind and fish ketchup
6. Throw away the citronella, galangal and the ginger when you want to serve the soup
7. Add some belimbing wuluh, little chilies, green chilies also squeeze of limes when you serve the soup. Last one add some stringbean before you serve the soup.

TIPS :
Functions of tomatoes are for making the ribs softer because tomatoes have some enzyme to make the ribs soft. It is also use for tail soup.