Ingredients:
-Half kilo of beef brisket cut into cubes
-1 large red onion, sliced
-2 cups napa cabbage, cut into quarters
-2 potatoes, cut into quarters
-1 cup green beans cut into half, diagonally
-1 large corn, cut into portions
-Thumb-sized ginger sliced thinly
-Whole peppercorns
-2 tbsp. fish sauce
-1 beef broth cube
Procedure:
1. Parboil the briskets with salt and peppercorns to remove gunk. Rinse after.
2. In a large pot, saute ginger and parboiled beef brisket.
3. When brisket turns brown, add in the peppercorns and onion and saute for 1 minute. Season with fish sauce.
3. Add in water (enough to cover the whole pot) and add the corn and beef broth cubes and simmer over low fire until brisket is tender. Cover the pot properly. Add water if necessary.
4. Add-in potatoes and cook until potatoes are soft but not crumbly or mushy.
5. Add the rest of the vegetables and simmer for 3 minutes and do not cover.
6. Transfer to a serving dish and enjoy while it's hot.
Makes 5-6 servings.
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Beef stew or nilagang baka is a very popular dish in the Philippines. We usually eat it with a dipping sauce of patis with calamansi and red chili and eat it with a cup of steaming rice. It's a very comforting food during the rainy season. It's a must to prepare this dish for guests let's say a bit practical because it has everything, soup, meat, and lots of veggies. 😊👍 It will be best if you have firewood to cook this because it tastes best when cooked on firewood and you can save up your gasul.
Way back home, my parents prepare this dish over the weekends. We use the rib part and cooked over firewood and simmered for hours and we usually put taro or saging na saba which adds more flavor and taste so fantastic and lots of veggies can be added on it. Every time we eat this with the family over the weekends, it feels like fiesta and the dining table looks so festive because we sometimes accompany this dish with grilled fish, boiled camote tops with tomatoes, chopped onions and bagoong isda, chargrilled okra and sometimes my dad will prepare fish kilawin (tanigue in calamansi and onion) or fresh oysters.😋 I think I was in grade 6 or highschool when I first tasted beef nilaga because beef is very pricey guys.
For this recipe, I parboiled the beef brisket to remove gunk which I mentioned in one of my blogs before because it's very important in making a clear broth. You don't want those brown foam floating into your food not realizing that those are dirt and whatever you think you don't want to eat right? 😂😂
It's a must to put onion leeks in it to give that depth of flavor ( iba lasa pag meron leeks mas masarap) but I need to work on what's on my kitchen. 😉
How about you guys? what's your beef stew recipe? Enjoy cooking everyone! ❤😘
