Cooking Mama: Beef Nilaga

10 March 2015

Here's another Pinoy fave. I cooked this but once because beef is so hard to tenderize! And I already used a pressure cooker at that! (If you have tricks as to how to shorten the palambot part of the cooking, do comment!) Although I also heard "cooking people" say that cooking has no shortcut. Oh well...

BEEF NILAGA

Ingredients:

1 k Beef sirloin, cubed (I used Beef Ribs, tho. It's really just up to you.)
2 bunches Pechay
1 sm Cabbage, chopped
6 pcs. Banana saba, halved (crosswise)
4 pcs. Potatoes, quartered
1 L White onion, halved
4 stalks Celery, chopped
2 pcs Star anise
4 c Beef broth (you can boil the beef before starting anything)
4 c Water
Salt & pepper to taste


1. Combine the water and beef broth in a large cooking pot. Boil.
2. Add the onion, star anise and celery. Reduce the heat to medium. Cover the pot and continue to boil for 20 minutes.
3. Remove the onion, star anise and celery from the boiling liquid using a strainer. Discard.
4. Add the beef. Simmer for 60-90 minutes or until the beef becomes tender. (See? Takes forever! I used a pressure cooker to cut time -- a little.)
5. Add water if necessary. Put in the banana and potatoes. Cook for 10 minutes.
6. Add pechay and cabbage. Sprinkle salt and pepper. Cover and turn the heat off.
7. Let the pot stay with the cover on for 2-5 minutes to cook veggies.

Note:

I also added carrots and chayote coz I like.

Enjoy!