Filipino
Bulalo (Beef Shank and Marrow Soup)
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Bulalo (Beef Shank and Marrow Soup) is Filipino home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. 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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Combine the beef shank, water, onion, and peppercorns in a large pot, bring to a boil, and skim any foam well.
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Cover and simmer very gently until the meat is falling-tender and the marrow has softened, about 3 hours.
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Add the corn and simmer 15 minutes.
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Stir in the cabbage and bok choy and cook just until wilted, about 3 minutes.
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Season with the fish sauce, scatter the scallions on top, and serve hot with rice, sucking the marrow from the bone.
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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 Bulalo (Beef Shank and Marrow Soup), 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. Bulalo (Beef Shank and Marrow Soup) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Adobong Baboy (Pork Adobo) |
| 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
- 560 kcal
- Protein
- 24 g
- Carbs
- 8 g
- Fat
- 48 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 20 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Bulalo (Beef Shank and Marrow Soup) takes about 210 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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