How to Make Tasty Filipino Beef Steak

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Filipino Beef Steak. Remove the beef slices from the marinade, shaking to remove any excess liquid. Filipino beef steak, or bistek, is a staple in every household in the Philippines. This must-try recipe is very delicious and simple to make.

Filipino Beef Steak This is also known as Beefsteak to some people. 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. You can have Filipino Beef Steak using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Filipino Beef Steak

  1. You need of Thin slices of beef steak.
  2. Prepare of Large Onions.
  3. It's 2 of Lemons.
  4. It's of Brown Sugar.
  5. Prepare of Soy Sauce.
  6. Prepare of Garlic.
  7. It's of Corn starch.

It is best enjoyed with warm rice. Bistek, or Filipino Beefsteak, is essentially steak and onions but with an Asian spin. Thinly-sliced beef is briefly marinated in calamansi (or lemon) and soy sauce, seared and simmered with the marinade and topped with onion slices. Bistek is short for the phrase Beef Steak.

Filipino Beef Steak step by step

  1. Marinate beef steak slices in soy sauce and pepper. Squeeze out juice from the lemons to the marinade. Add brown sugar.
  2. Marinate for an hour.
  3. Heat pan with cooking oil and fry the beef slices without the marinade until they turn brown. Set aside..
  4. In the same pan, saute the onions cut in circular shape. Set aside..
  5. Saute chopped garlic. Add the marinade and then the beef steak. Cook until meat is tender.
  6. Dissolve a teaspoon of corn starch in water, then add to the mixture..
  7. Add onions on top of the tenderized beef steak..

This is the Filipino-style of cooking fillet-cut beef, marinated in soy sauce and citrus calamansi (the Filipino lime). This is a Filipino style beef steak. Made from thinly sliced beef and marinated with soy sauce, calamansi juice, pepper and liquid seasoning. It should be marinated for at least an hour for the beef to absorb the marinade. In choosing the beef, tenderloin is the best but it is expensive compared to other pasts of the beef.