Showing posts with label Beef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beef. Show all posts

April 29, 2011

Fried Bopis!

I had a food trip with my friend Jess, which recently was the champion of our extra-rice challenge in Mang Inasal garnering ten extra-rice for the record. Our food trip route started in Marasbaras, a developing Barangay bordering the city from the next town, Palo. The street was filled of street food vendors, from barbecue, fried chicken, tempura and fish balls, balut and penoy, and bopis. Bopis is a spicy Filipino dish of pork lungs and heart sautéed in tomatoes, chilies and onions. 

This case however, bopis was beef and it was simply stir fried seasoned with salt and pepper. The vendor told us the bopis we ate were beef tripe. It was skewered in bite size pieces over tooth picks, which was Php 1.00 each. They had a vinegar dip with onions and garlic, giving the simple bopis flavor a twist. We had around thirty sticks before we tried other food in the place.

The recipe I would share is not the traditional bopis recipe, instead I will show you guys how the street food vendor prepared it.

Ingredients,
1. Beef Tripe
2. Beef Heart
3. Salt and Pepper
4. Garlic

For the dip, just mix it all together.
1. Vinegar
2. Chopped Onions
3. Lime Juice
4. Chili (Optional)

Procedure,
1. Boil bopis for about 5-7 minutes to make it tender.
2. Season it with garlic, salt and pepper.
3. Skewer with tooth pick, optional. Then fry it over high heat just to make it crispy for about 2-3 minutes.
4. Serve with the dip.

April 7, 2011

Bistek Pinoy!


As the sun shows her beauty and brilliance through out the days this week in our place, I can't stop thinking about bistek and eating it on a sunny summer lunch. Now what is Bistek? According to Wikipedia it  is a Philippine dish typically made with onions and strips of sirloin beef slowly cooked in soy sauce, and calamansi juice. Obvious in rhyme or similarity bistek got its name from the English words Beef and Steak. So Bistek is actually a Filipino style beef steak. Getting a recipe from some cookbook, I got in to cooking one myself and started to make my own variation on this delectable dish.

So here are the ingredients, 
  • Beef sirloin or tenderloin, thinly sliced and pounded.
  • Freshly squeezed calamansi or lemon juice.
  • Soy sauce.
  • Garlic.
  • Crushed ginger.
  • Ground black pepper.
  • Sliced onions.
  • Olive oil.
  • Julienned red bell pepper.


So after getting all the ingredients, I got myself ready and started to do what was needed,

  • Mix the soy sauce, calamansi juice, garlic, pepper, bell pepper, and onions.  
  • Then marinate the meat in the mixture for about 45 minutes to an hour.
  • Ready a frying pan with olive oil. And fry the marinated beef until it's tender and brown.
  • When it's brown already, add the marinade as it will serve as the sauce or base of the dish.
  • Add the sliced onions and continue to cook for another minute.
  • Serve hot with rice - and a lot of it.
  • Enjoy on a hot summer day! 

Whenever Bistek is served on our dining table, I would immediately rush out to get a lot of rice, get some bistek and drizzle the bistek sauce on the rice. Sharing food is one of the best ways to unite a family and foster friendship. Even on times of crises, people will always need food to survive and if you want great food and hospitality - nothing beats The Philippines.

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