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Fill Your Cart With Color today! Beef Mechado is a type of Filipino beef stew. It is cooked in a tomato-based sauce along with cubed potato. The sauce can be made from chopped ripe tomato or canned tomato sauce.
Beef Mechado is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Beef Mechado is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook beef mechado using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Beef Mechado:
- Take 1 kilo beef sirloin
- Prepare Salt and pepper
- Get 1 whole red bell pepper
- Take 2 big sliced tomatoes
- Prepare 4 medium size potatoes sliced
- Prepare 2 carrots medium sliced
- Make ready 3 teaspoon sugar
- Get 3 tablespoon soy sauce
- Take 1 big can tomato sauce
- Prepare 4 teaspoon tomato paste
- Get 4 cloves garlic crushed
- Prepare 1 whole onion sliced
- Take 2 cups water
- Prepare 1/2 size lemon
- Prepare 4 bay leaves
It is traditionally made of beef chunks paired with pork fat strips, potatoes and carrots, along with a thick sauce made out of tomato, soy sauce, and other seasonings. Beef Mechado or Mitsado is a classic Filipino dish greatly influenced by the Spanish way of cooking that was taught to our ancestors during their time here in the Philippines. As marbled beef, prized for their tenderness, juiciness, and flavor, were too expensive for most people at this time. Cheaper but very lean cuts are what most can afford.
Steps to make Beef Mechado:
- Marinate beef with salt and pepper and put lemon juice into it. Let it stand about a minute to absorb the juice.
- In a deep pan place the beef chunks, soy sauce, garlic and bay leaves. Pour the water in and bring to boil.
- Cover and simmer on low and cook until the beef chunks are tender for about 1-1 1/2 hours
- When the beef is tender add potatoes, carrots and onions. Cook for another 10-15 mins until the potatoes and carrots are almost cooked
- Add chopped bell peppers and tomato sauce. Stir, cover and cook until all the vegetables are tender. You can cook it uncovered if you wish a thicker sauce. Adjust seasong with sugar, soy sauce, tomato paste, salt and ground pepper to taste. (to balance out the flavors) Simmer for about 5-10 mins.
- Ready to serve! Enjoy!
As marbled beef, prized for their tenderness, juiciness, and flavor, were too expensive for most people at this time. Cheaper but very lean cuts are what most can afford. Beef Mechado, a dish born during the islands' Spanish colonial era, is one of the most popular dishes on the Philippine table. Mechadong baka is beef stew in tomato sauce, potatoes and carrots. A Filipino dish very similar to kalderatang baka and I always can't tell the difference between the two when I see these dishes.
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