Recipe: Perfect Beef Nilaga

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Beef Nilaga. Beef Nilaga or Nilagang Baka is literally translated as "Boiled Beef". This is a simple soup dish best served during rainy and cold weather. Have you noticed the similarity of this dish to that of the Bulalo and Beef Pochero?

Beef Nilaga Scrape all the fond on the pan. Slowly add water and bringing it to a boil, uncovered. The key to the best tasting nilaga is the beef. You can cook Beef Nilaga using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Beef Nilaga

  1. It's 2 lbs of beef brisket, cubed.
  2. It's 1 of big potato, cubed.
  3. Prepare 1 of bok choy.
  4. It's 1 of large onion.
  5. It's 2 of medium carrots, chopped crosswise about 2 inches long.
  6. Prepare 1 tbsp of whole pepper corn.
  7. It's 3 tbsp of fish sauce.
  8. You need 6 cups of water.

The beef gives this simple soup its flavor so if you're going to spend on something, buy fresh and flavorful cuts of beef. Then it's just a matter of letting the water, beef, seasonings, and other ingredients you want to add in simmer until the beef is incredibly tender. Beef Nilaga (say "knee-lah-gah") translates to 'boiled beef'. It is a classic Filipino stew which can easily be cooked by boiling the ingredients together.

Beef Nilaga instructions

  1. Sauté the onion until texture becomes soft.
  2. Add in beef brisket and cook for about 5 minutes.
  3. Add fish sauce and whole pepper corn and mix well.
  4. Pour in water and bring to boil, simmer for 1-2 hours.
  5. Put in vegetables starting with potatoes and carrots, simmer 5-7 minutes.
  6. Add bok choy. Cover the pot and turn off the heat. Let it stay for 5 minutes.
  7. Serve hot and enjoy.

This is a Filipino all-in-one soup meal that is versatile. It can be cooked anywhere in the world because the ingredients are basic and easy to find in local groceries. Beef Nilaga, or Nilagang Baka, as it is called in the Philippines, is a simple Filipino Beef and Vegetable Soup. Made with economical cuts of beef for stew and beef neck bones, cabbage, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, I think of Beef Nilaga as the cousin to an Irish beef and cabbage stew. Nilagang Baka is a Filipino beef soup cooked until the meat becomes really tender and with vegetables like potatoes, beans, and cabbage that makes this simple soup healthy and flavorful.