Beef Asado
A Filipino dinner. Ready in about 1 hour 37 minutes. Difficulty: medium.
- 57 minPrep (about)
- 40 minCook (about)
- 1 hr 37 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- MediumDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredient
- 2.5 lb beef Shopping tip: Ribeye or sirloin steak.
Fresh & other
- 1 beef stock concentrate
- 6 oz tomato paste Shopping tip: Tomato paste (UK: tomato purée), in a small can or tube.
- 2 ¼ cups water
- ⅓ lemon
- 2 ½ tbsp butter
- 1 onion
- 3 cloves garlic
Sauces & oils
- ¼ cup + 1 ½ tsp soy sauce
- 2 ¼ tsp white wine vinegar
- 1 ½ tbsp tomato sauce
- ⅓ cup olive oil
Spices & seasonings (2): pepper, bay leaves
- 1 ½ tbsp pepper
- 3 bay leaves
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Mix tomato sauce, lemon, dried bay leaves, vinegar, soy sauce, crushed peppercorn and beef.
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Mix well.
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Marinate beef for at least 30 minutes.
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Put your marinated beef in a cooking pot along using remaining marinade.
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Add water.
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Let boil, 2.
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Add Knorr Beef Cube.
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Stir.
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Cover the pot.
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Cook for 40 minutes in low heat.
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Turn the beef over.
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Add tomato paste.
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Continue cooking until beef tenderizes.
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Set aside, 4.
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Heat oil in a pan.
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Fry the potato until it browns.
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Turn over plus continue frying the opposite side.
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Remove from the pan.
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Place on a clean plate.
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Do the same with the carrots, 5.
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Save 2 ½ tablespoons of cooking oil from your pan where the potato was fried.
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Cook onion and garlic until onion softens, 6.
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Pour-in your sauce from the beef stew.
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Let boil.
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Add the beef.
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Cook for 2 minutes, 7.
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Add butter.
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Let it melt.
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Continue cooking till the sauce reduces to half.
On the side: Steamed rice
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (25 min)
- Rinse the rice. Simmer it covered in water (2 cups per cup of rice) for about 18 minutes, then let it sit 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.