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Philippine Cuisines - Filipino Food Mechado Recipe

filipino food mechado recipe

Many Philippine cuisine recipes have been created out of the Filipino's love of food. Whereever you may visit in the Philippine, different servings of Philippine cuisine in a variety of colors and taste, are prepared on the dining table in every home.

 

Mechado Recipe Ingredients

1 kilo beef (strip of fat inserted)

1 heaping teaspoon peppercorn

3 cups water

1/3 cup vinegar

1 bay leaf or laurel leaf

1 big onion, sliced

5 cloves garlic crushed

1 red pepper, in strips

1/4 cup green peas

1 tomato, cubed

1/3 cup soy sauce

3 slices bread, cut to crouton sizes or cubed

1/2 cup sugar

1/3 cup cooking oil

Cooking Instructions for Mechado

Soak the bread slices in soy sauce. Set aside.

In a casserole, put beef. Add vinegar, pepper corn, bay leaf and water. Cover; boil until meat is tender. It should look golden brown and cooked.

Fry mechado in cooking oil.

Add sugar little by little. Then add bread slices soaked previously in soy sauce.

When mixture has dried up a bit, strain broth from casserole and add to mixture. Garnish with red pepper, peas and tomatoes.