Daging Masak Kicap

This is another recipe from my late mother. Delicious and easy to cook too. You can also replace beef with chicken.

Ingredients
1/2 kg beef - cut into small pieces
2 onion )
1 garlic ) sliced
Ginger  )
2 pcs potatoes - each cut into 4
1 cinnamon stick
2 pcs star anise
2 tblsp cooking oil
3 tblsp dark soy sos
2 tblsp light soy sos
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp tamarind paste
Salt to taste
1 big onion - cut
2 red chilli - cut into 2 (long)

Ingredient B - to make it paste
1tblsp Cumin seeds           )
1 tblsp Fennel seeds          )
1 tblsp corriander seeds    ) Pound the spices first and then add onion, garlic & ginger
1/2 tblsp black pepper      ) Continue pound again til fine
3 cloves                            ) 
3 cardamom                     )
2 onion
1 garlic
1/2" ginger

Preparations:
1) Marinate beef with both soy sauce and sugar for about 15mins
2) Heat up oil in a pot, saute onion, garlic, ginger, cinnamon and start anise until fragrant
3) Add in ingredient B with 3 tblsp of water - stir fry for 5 mins
4) Put in the marinated beef let it simmer until beef almost tender then add potatoes.
5) Once the beef and potatoes cooked, add red chilli and big onion
6) You can add salt if needed and served