Batangas Beef Caldereta Recipes

BEEF CALDERETA RECIPE

Steps:

• Heat the cooking oil in the pan and fry the carrots and potatoes until color turns light brown.
• Remove the fried carrots and potatoes from the pan and set aside.
• In the same pan where the vegetables were fried, sauté the garlic and onions.
• Add the beef and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Add water and let the beef boil until tender (about 30 minutes using a pressure cooker).
• Add the tomato sauce and liver spread and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add green olives, carrots, bay leaves, bell pepper,crushed chili,and potatoes and simmer for 5 to 8 minutes.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Serve Hot. Excellent with white rice.

CALDERETA (FILIPINO BEEF STEW)

Steps:

• Heat vegetable oil in a large pot over medium heat. Sprinkle beef with salt and black pepper and brown in the hot oil with garlic, about 10 minutes. Pour in water, pineapple juice, onion, tomato sauce, and tomato paste. Bring to a boil, turn heat to low, and simmer until beef is almost tender, 35 to 45 minutes.
• Stir potatoes, red bell pepper, carrot, mini sausages, pineapple chunks with their juice, olives, and bay leaves into the stew. Bring back to a boil and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 20 more minutes. Season with hot pepper sauce, salt, and black pepper.

CALDERETA (FILIPINO BEEF AND CHORIZO STEW)

Steps:

• Combine beef chuck, chorizo, garlic, vinegar, and soy sauce in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir until beef chuck is browned and liquid is reduced, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Heat olive oil in a pot over medium heat; cook and stir onion and green bell pepper in the hot oil until onion is translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Add tomato sauce and simmer until liquid is slightly reduced, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Stir beef-chorizo mixture into tomato sauce mixture; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover pot, and simmer for 30 to 40 minutes.
• Stir potatoes, peas, salt, and pepper into stew; simmer until beef is tender and potatoes are cooked through, 20 to 30 minutes. Add water if needed.

BEEF CALDERETA

Steps:

• Boil the beef until tender, in the water to make a nice beef broth. Add pineapple juice and onion,.
• In a separate pan sauté garlic until almost brown. Add to beef and broth.
• Add the tomato sauce and tomato paste and allow to simmer for ten minutes.
• Add bay leaves, bell pepper, carrots, and potatoes.
• Simmer until potatoes and carrots are tender, then add cheese and salt and pepper to taste.
• Add optional Tabasco sauce.
• Cook until cheese is melted, stir.
• Remove bay leaves.
• Add water if the mixture is too thick.
• Serve hot on individual servings of a bed of cooked rice.