Filipino
Bistek Tagalog (Beef in Soy, Calamansi, and Onions)
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Bistek Tagalog (Beef in Soy, Calamansi, and Onions) is Filipino home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Marinate the beef in the soy sauce, calamansi juice, and crushed garlic at least 20 minutes.
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Drain the beef, reserving the marinade, and sear in the hot oil in batches until browned, about 1 minute per side.
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Set the beef aside and saute the onion rings in the same pan until soft and beginning to caramelize.
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Return the beef and the reserved marinade to the pan, season with the black pepper, and simmer until the sauce reduces slightly, about 3 minutes.
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Serve hot with rice, the onions piled on top.
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Serve it with
A Filipino dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Bistek Tagalog (Beef in Soy, Calamansi, and Onions), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Bistek Tagalog (Beef in Soy, Calamansi, and Onions) carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Arroz Caldo (Filipino Chicken Rice Porridge) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Arroz Caldo (Filipino Chicken Rice Porridge) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 550 kcal
- Protein
- 30 g
- Carbs
- 8 g
- Fat
- 44 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 680 mg
- Saturated fat
- 10 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Bistek Tagalog (Beef in Soy, Calamansi, and Onions) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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