Bistek Tagalog is a Filipino beef steak dish made with tender cuts from the loin and sautéed with fried onions. The beef is cut into small pieces and marinated overnight in a mixture of soy sauce and calamansi. This marinade adds zesty, salty, umami flavors and acts as a sauce during cooking. The beef is flash-fried and then simmered in the marinade until tender, distinguishing it from typical Western steak preparations which are usually pan-fried quickly. The name reflects Spanish colonial influences on Filipino cuisine and language.
Bistek Tagalog is a marinated beef steak dish sautéed with copious amounts of fried onions, using tender cuts from the loin pan-fried for flavor.
The marinade for Bistek Tagalog consists of soy sauce and calamansi, providing zesty, salty, umami flavors to the beef and doubling as a sauce.
Unlike quick-cooking methods, Bistek Tagalog involves marinating the beef overnight and then cooking it twice to achieve tenderness and enhanced flavor.
Bistek combines Tagalog, the language of the Philippines, and 'bistek', the Spanish word for steak, reflecting the country's colonial culinary influences.
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