Bistek Tagalog (Filipino Beef Steak)

Bistek Tagalog is the Filipino version of beef steak. I got this recipe from a Pinoy magazine and I am sure you'll gonna love this recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 kilo beef tenderloin
• 4 cloves garlic
• 3 tablespoon oil
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 3 pcs white onion
• 1/4 cup calamansi juice

Cooking Procedure:

1. Cut beef tenderloin in 3x2x1/2 inch thick steak.
2. In a bowl, marinade beef tenderloin in garlic,soy sauce,pepper, and calamansi juice for at least 1 hour.
3. Heat the pan and add oil
4. Saute onions until translucent then set aside.
5. Remove the beef fro the marinade and sear each steak over high heat on both sides according to desires doneness.
6. Set aside on a serving platter and keep warm.
7. Reduce heat and pour the remaining marinade into the pan.
8. Add the onion rings and simmer until liquid reduced by half.
9. Pour the sauce over the beef and serve hot.

Pork Barbecue

Pork Barbecue is one of the special recipes in many Filipino occasions. Everybody love it especially the children.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg lean pork, sliced
• 1/4 kg liver, sliced
• 5 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1/2 cup calamansi juice
• 1/4 tsp pepper
• 1/4 cup soy sauce

Procedure:

1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
2. Marinate pork pieces for 2 to 3 hours.
3. Arrange the pork pieces in bamboo skewers.
4. Broil over live charcoal.
5. Baste with barbecue sauce while broiling.

Bopiz

Best for Pulutan, just be careful of your athritis :)

Ingredients:

• 1/4 kilo liver
• 1/2 kilo pig's lungs
• 1 pig's heart
• 4 tablespoons lard
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 medium sized onion
• 1 cup chopped tomatoes
• 1/2 cup water
• salt and pepper

Cooking Procedure:

1. Boil the lungs until tender.
2. Remove the tendons and chop with the heart and liver.
3. Saute the garlic, onions and tomatoes.
4. Add the chopped lungs, heart and liver.
5. Add water and cook until meat is tender.
6. Season with salt and pepper.

Beef Steak (Filiipno Style)

Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 cup sliced onion
• 6 slices tender steaks
• 1 tablespoon calamansi juice
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• cooking oil

Procedure:

1. Marinate steaks in calamansi juice, soy sauce, salt and pepper.
2. Pan fry in about 2 tablespoons of oil.
3. When steaks are cooked, remove them from pan into a serving dish.
4. Add about 2 teaspoons of oil to remaining oil in the same pan and pan fry the onion until tender.
5. Pile on top of steaks.
6. Serve hot

Lengua Recipe (Filipino Style)

Filipinos love every part of a cow especially the exotic ones. You can try this Filipino style of the Lengua recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 fresh ox tongue
• 1 chorizo de Bilbao or slices of Chinese Ham
• 1 can mushrooms
• 1 can tomato sauce
• 1/2 cup sliced carrots
• 2 sweet red and green peppers, quartered
• 1 can sweet peas
• 6 or more bananas (saba) cut as desired, then fried
• Soy sauce to taste
• 1/4 tsp ground pepper
• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
• 5 tbsps flour
• 5 tbsps margarine
• salt and pepper

Procedure:

1. Clean tongue thoroughly, scald and remove outer skin
2. Cook slowly in boiling water to cover, adding water whenever necessary
3. When tender, add chorizo, soy sauce, tomato sauce, ground pepper, Worcestershire sauce and salt and pepper to taste
4. In another pan, melt margarine, then add flour and blend.
5. Add 4 cups of liquid in which tongue was cooked and stir until thick.
6. Add this sauce to the tongue.
7. Add carrots, mushrooms, sweet peas, sweet peppers and cook for a few more minutes.
8. Serve in slices garnished with slices of chorizo, fried banana and other vegetables
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Embutido

Embutido is also known as the Filipino version of Meat Loaf. So if meat loaf is not available, Pinoys prepares embutido.

Ingredients:

• 1 kilo ground pork
• 1 cup bread crumbs, soaked in 1/2 cup milk
• 2 chorizos de Bilbao, chopped fine
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 3 tbsps sweet pickles, chopped fine
• 3 tbsps, seedless raisins
• salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Mix all ingredients
2. Wrap up in a clean piece of cheese cloth and tie securely at both ends
3. Sew up opening
4. Place in saucepan with just enough chicken or meat broth cover
5. Bring to boil and simmer until done. Cool.
6. Unwrap before serving, slice into pieces and serve with liver or tomato sauce
7. To make sauce, boil broth in which roll was cooked, simmering it down to desired quantity. Thicken with liver paste or tomato puree and season to taste with salt and pepper

Kaldereta / Caldereta

Original Filipino recipe suited for any special occasions.

Ingredients:

• 1 kilo goat's meat cut into pieces
• 1 cup fat or salad oil
• 5 segments garlic, crushed
• 6 potatoes, halved or quartered
• 1 large onion
• slices of hard-cooked eggs
• meat stock or water
• 6 tomatoes sliced
• Paprika, salt and pepper to taste
• liver mixture
• 1 cup sweet peas
• Sliced pimientos morrones
• 1/2 cup chopped ham

Procedure:

1. Heat the fat and brown the garlic
2. Remove the garlic and saute the onion and tomatoes, then add the meat and seasonings
3. When partly cooked, transfer the mixture into a deeper pan, then add stock to cover the mixture
4. Cook until meat is almost tender
5. Add the potatoes and continue cooking
6. When meat and vegetables are tender, add the liver mixture to thicken the gravy
7. Add pimientos, peas and ham
8. Serve hot and garnish top with slices of hard cooked eggs and chopped ham

Liver mixture for Caldereta / Kaldereta

Ingredients:

• 1/4 kilo cooked ox liver passed through a food grinder
• 2 tbsps bread crumbs
• 2 tbsps vinegar
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 cup stock
• sugar to taste

Procedure:

1. Mix the above and strain into the caldereta / kaldereta mixture

Fried Lumpia With Pork or Beef

Another crispy-licious Pinoy recipe here, and I love it very much, especially the sauce. Easy to cook and well-love by Filipinos.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 Kilo ground beef or pork
• 1/4 kilo potatoes, dices
• 1 can peas
• 1 small box raisins
• 1 medium onion
• 1 cup water
• 1 small can cooking oil for deep frying
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed and chopped fine
• 2 tomatoes, chopped fine
• 20 lumpia wrappers
• salt and soy sauce

Procedure:

1. Saute garlic, onion, tomatoes and round meat until brown.
2. Add diced potatoes and one cup water.
3. When potatoes are done, pour peas and raisins, and a dash of salt or a little soy sauce to taste.
4. Let it cool.
5. Wrap in lumpia wrappers and drop in sauce pan of deep fat until golden brown.
6. Serve hot with sweet sour sauce.

Sweet & Sour Sauce for Fried Lumpia

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons vinegar
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons flour or cornstarch dissolved in 1/4 cup water
• 1 cup water
• 2 teaspoon salt

Procedure:

1. Dissolve flour or cornstarch in 1/4 cup of water.
2. Add other ingredients and mix. Bring to a boil and cook to desired thikness.

Kare-Kare

I love this one. It's great for meat lovers since it is mixed with some vegetables so it's nutritious too.

Ingredients:

• 1 kilo cow's tail
• 1 bundle of sitaw
• 1/2 kilo eggplants, sliced into four pieces each
• 1 medium sized heart of banana
• 1/2 kilo pechay, cut into two
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 big onion, sliced
• 1 small bottle peanut butter
• 3 tablespooon, bagoong alamang
• atsuete for coloring
• 2 tablespoon cooking oil

Procedure:

1. Clean the cow's tail very well. Cut into desired pieces and boil until tender.

2. Saute garlic and onions.

3. Add cow's tail and peanut butter.

4. Cut the heart of banana into 4 and wash in water with salt.

5. Add them togeteher with sliced eggplants and pechay.

6. Cook until vegetables are almost done, not oveercooked.

7. Serve hot with bagoong alamang sauted in a little sliced onions and garlic.

For a change or alternative, you can substitute pork meat.