F is for FOOD! and if I can keep up with it, every Friday I will be posting about food, mostly food from our kitchen, not much on restaurant review because you know we don’t eat out a lot (I cook good food that’s why).
For this week, let me share with you my newest dish: SPRING TIME BEEF STEW
Once upon a time, I had the courage to go through my things and discovered some recipe books I bought years ago… that was the time when I don’t even know how to fry a hotdog.. One of the recipe books was about Western dishes as Turkey, Pies and Stew. The Spring Time Beef Stew got me. We love beef stew, it’s a dish I can cook with my eyes closed. It’s a dish where a kilo or 2 of rice is not enough for my boys. Some of my friends can attest to that.
Stew is slow cooking, so just imagine how much time it takes to cook it. I cook my beef stew with onion (lots of it), soy sauce, bell pepper and potato, that’s all. Spring time beef stew calls for green vegetables and is tomato based. The recipe on the book was not appetizing to me so I created my own recipe based on my beef stew and here it is:
INGREDIENTS:
- 3/4 kg beef brisket, cubes
- 1/2 cup flour
- 2 medium potato, cubes
- 10 stalks Baguio beans, slice into 1 inch long
- green and red bell pepper (one each), sliced
- 1 medium sized carrots, cubes
- 1 small pouch tomato sauce (about 2 -2 tablespoon)
- 8 medium onions, sliced
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- salt and pepper
- 5 cups of water
Start by seasoning the beef with salt and pepper. Take a container or a plastic ware with cover, put the beef cubes and the floor and shake it until all the cubes are coated with flour.
Fry the beef until golden brown.
In a casserole, put the beef, onion and the soy sauce, simmer for about 2-3 minutes then add the tomato paste. Cook in low fire for about 10 minutes (adding water from time to time). Add all the water and adjust the heat to high and let it boil. Turn the heat to a very low setting as it boils and leave it for about an hour(sometimes 1 hour and 30 minutes, sometimes more than that) or until the beef is tender.
When the beef is tender, put the bell pepper, potato and carrots, wait until the vegetable are done before adding the Baguio beans. Let it simmer for about 2-3 minutes and turn off the stove.
The sauce will thicken due to the flour in the beef. It is the onions that will give this dish its distinct taste.
Give this dish a try and let me know 🙂
Julie Ann says
February 24, 2012 at 1:47 pmlooks really delicious. I love to cook and I have hundreds of cookbooks at home. But still want to try different varieties of things so I might try your beef stew one of these days. 🙂
pehpot says
February 26, 2012 at 3:52 pmactually I seldom use cook books, I am so traditional when it comes to cooking, I love it when someone pass their recipes to me like my grandmom’s or my mother’s 🙂
imriz says
February 24, 2012 at 2:06 pmhmmm, my kind of “weekend” foodie with the whole gang. to shorten out the cooking process, i’ll let the pressure cooker help me out:)
Wished you could invite me sometime so i could have a taste of your foodies.
Eileen says
February 24, 2012 at 2:16 pmI do not eat beef, but the my Mom loves it, I will share this recipe with her. I am sure she would love to try this out.
Jenn says
February 25, 2012 at 11:12 amAy… parang gusto ko ito. A fusion between pochero and caldereta pero iba. I love green beans and bell peppers, and since we have beef in the freezer, mukhang may mailuluto na ako for dinner mamaya. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Ness says
February 25, 2012 at 10:23 pmI have been cooking beef stew the traditional way – learned it from my Dad. But since, I got married, I have been using Mama Sita’s beef caldereta mix. Since my husband like it. Haha! This one’s new. Will put this in my list. Thanks for sharing!
ROMELO says
February 25, 2012 at 11:04 pmhmmm… beef stew… yan ba yung nilagang baka?
Anne @ GreenEggs&Moms says
February 25, 2012 at 11:50 pmLook absolutely delicious and I don’t cook much so do you consider orders? haha 🙂 Have a happy weekend!
Cielo says
February 26, 2012 at 4:54 pmThis is my dear hubby’s fave…everytime that he is here for a vacay, hindi nawawala ito sa aming menu
MIss yah sis
levyousa says
February 26, 2012 at 7:10 pmang alam ko lang na beef stew is yung korean style na matamis na maanghang. Nung una ko natikman ang beef stew na’to di ko na nakalimutan at talaga namang hahanap hanapin mo kahit sabaw na lang natitira LOL 🙂 Nagugutom tuloy ako 🙂
peachkins says
February 26, 2012 at 8:37 pmI’ll try your beef stew..wala ng diet diet!
Mom-Friday says
February 26, 2012 at 9:41 pmThis looks yummy! Looks like caldereta 🙂 my style is more like Korean Beef Stew naman.
Pink MagaLine says
February 27, 2012 at 12:38 amHubby loves this dish. He usually eats it with bread and plain yogurt. Tapos sabay sawsaw ng bread sa sauce ng stew. Hihi.
Visiting from FBU sis! 🙂
Mitchteryosa says
February 27, 2012 at 9:12 amPara din syang Pochero no?
Matry nga ito sa weekend, ng maiba naman.
Rowena Wendy Lei says
February 27, 2012 at 9:25 amWill have our cook try it out! Haha, I’m useless in the kitchen kasi.
Stacy says
February 28, 2012 at 1:22 amWonder why its called spring time
Cha Sy says
February 28, 2012 at 3:30 amDelicious beef stew. That is actually one of my favorite!
Jeniffer Gangan says
February 28, 2012 at 3:48 amWow, it’s 4AM and all i can think of is to EAT food like that on the picture!!!!Mukha syang pagkasarap sarap! gonna find something in the fridge and satisfy my taste buds=)
Sumi says
March 1, 2012 at 1:18 pmThis looks really yummy! 😀 My mom cooks something like this too, although I don’t really know what she calls it.. XD