Bistek Tagalog (Beef Steak) Recipe

Ingredients

• Soy sauce

  Regular sodium, Shoyu

  5 tbsp or 80g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  ½ tsp or 1g

• Garlic

  Raw

  3 cloves, minced or 9g

• Onions

  Sweet, raw

  3 onion or 993g

• Oil

  Submarine Sandwich - Wegmans

  1 tbsp or 14g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  1 cup or 237g

• Salt

  Table

  1 dash or 0.4g

• Lemons

  Raw, with peel

  1 fruit without seeds or 108g

• Beef top sirloin

  Separable lean and fat, trimmed to 1/8" fat, select, raw

  1 ½ lb or 680g

Directions

1. Marinate beef in soy sauce, lemon (or calamansi), and ground black pepper for at least 1 hour. Note: marinate overnight for best result
2. Heat the cooking oil in a pan then pan-fry half of the onions until the texture becomes soft. Set aside
3. Drain the marinade from the beef. Set it aside. Pan-fry the beef on the same pan where the onions were fried for 1 minute per side. Remove from the pan. Set aside
4. Add more oil if needed. Saute garlic and remaining raw onions until onion softens.
5. Pour the remaining marinade and water. Bring to a boil.
6. Add beef. Cover the pan and simmer until meat is tender. Note: Add water as needed.
7. Season with ground black pepper and salt as needed. Top with pan-fried onions.
8. Transfer to a serving plate. Serve hot. Share and Enjoy!