Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, bistek. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
bistek is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. bistek is something which I have loved my entire life.
Bistek Tagalog is classic Filipino dish made of thinly sliced beef marinated and braised in a mixture of citrus juice (more commonly, the local fruit, calamansi), soy sauce, onions, garlic, and pepper. A delicious medley of salty, tangy, and savory flavors, it's traditionally served with steamed rice. Bistek (Spanish: bistec) or bistec is a Spanish loan word derived from the English words " beef steak " abbreviated. Filipino beef steak, or bistek, is a staple in every household in the Philippines.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bistek using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make bistek:
- Get 1 lb beef
- Get 1 large lemon
- Prepare 1/4 cup soy sauce
- Prepare 2 clove garlic
- Take 1/2 small onion
- Get 1 tbsp cornstarch
- Make ready 1 pinch black pepper to taste
- Take 1 pinch sugar
It is comprised of thin slices of beef and a generous amount of onions. These are stewed in a soy sauce and lemon juice mixture until the beef gets very tender. Bistek is steak, but one transformed by its encounter with soy sauce and citrus. My addition is browned butter, an ingredient not so common in Southeast Asian cooking.
Steps to make bistek:
- marinate beef with soy sauce , lemon juice, & sugar for about 1 hour or overnight.
- preheat pan and add 2tbsp oil. Add mince garlic then onion.
- Add marinated beef when onions turned soft & golden. Simmer til beef is cook then add the cornstarch dissolve in 3tbsp water to thicken sauce.
- Add pepper to taste and serve with rice :) . Enjoy!
Bistek is steak, but one transformed by its encounter with soy sauce and citrus. My addition is browned butter, an ingredient not so common in Southeast Asian cooking. In a nonreactive bowl (non-metal), mix kalamansi juice, soy sauce, and garlic. Taste it, if it's too sour, add soy sauce; if it's too salty, add more juice. Remember you can also adjust near the end of cooking the beef.
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