rendang

Etymology

Malay rendang

Noun

rendang (usually uncountable, plural rendangs)

1. An Indonesian dish of beef (or sometimes other meat) slowly cooked in coconut milk.
   • 2009 May 27, Dave Cook, “A Little Taste of Somewhere Else”, in New York Times‎:

     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.

Etymology

First attested in the classical Malay literary work Hikayat Amir Hamzah as early as the 1550s, which had been translated into Malay from the Persian original.

Noun

rendang (plural rendang-rendang)

1. rendang (a rich, spicy meat curry)