Monday, January 27, 2014

Lazy Cooking: Bistek

Ingredients:
1/2 kilo beef (lean)
vinegar
soy sauce
brown sugar
2 cloves garlic
1 large/medium-sized onion
3 bell peppers
salt and pepper to taste

1.  Cut beef into thin slices.
2.  Mix together vinegar, soy sauce and brown sugar. The ratio of these ingredients can  be 5:3:1 (for instance, 5 tbsp of soy sauce to 3 tbsp of vinegar to 1 tbsp of brown sugar), or you can also change it according to your preference.
3. Add in roughly chopped onion and garlic. Also add in the thinly-sliced beef.
4. Mix ingredients thoroughly until all beef slices have been covered in marinade.
5. Marinate for at least an hour (or overnight, if you want to have more flavor on your bistek).
6.  After marinating, slow-cook both meat and marinade, stirring occasionally until the marinade almost dries up. Add about a teaspoon of oil to the cooking meat, then add the julienned bell peppers. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cook until the bell peppers are soft.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Lazy Cooking: Corned Beef Patties


Ingredients:

left-over corned beef (about a cup)
1 egg
1 teaspoon coating powder (or cornstarch)
1 onion, finely chopped
1 clove of garlic, finely chopped
salt and pepper, to taste
cooking oil

Steps:
1. Mix together: corned beef, egg, coating powder, onion, garlic, salt and pepper.
2. Get a spoonful of the mixture, form it into a ball and flatten using the palm of your hand to turn it into a   patty. Repeat step 2 until all of the mixture has been shaped into patties.
3. Heat cooking oil on a pan. Use enough oil so as to deep-fry the patties. Make sure that the oil is hot enough in order to prevent the patties from sticking to the pan. Fry until both sides become pinkish-brown.
4. Drain excess oil by placing cooked patties on a paper towel first, before finally transferring into a serving plate.

Easy as 1, 2, 3 right? ^_^