Filipino Bistek
An easy and delicious Filipino Classic. Filipino Bistek is great for a quick dinner night that packs all the flavor.
Ingredients
- thin top round sirloin cut into square (see video)
- 4-6 cloves of garlic chopped
- ½ yellow onion cut into rings
- ½ yellow onion rough chopped for marinade
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 4 tbsp soy sauce
- garlic powder
- pepper
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- water
Instructions
- Remove beef from packaging and place in a bowl with water and vinegar for up to 5 minutes.
- Rinse and dry your beef.
- Slice half of an onion into rings and set aside.
- With the remaining onion, rough chop and add to bowl with the beef.
- Chop 4-6 cloves of garlic, add to beef.
- Add juice of 1 lemon, 4 tbsp of soy sauce, garlic powder, and black pepper to the beef.
- Mix beef with marinade and let sit in fridge for at least one hour or overnight.
- In a small bowl, make a cornstarch slurry using 1 tbsp of cornstarch and water. Set aside
- In a large pan or wok, add a high temp oil like avocado or canola and fry the onion rings. Set Aside.
- Add a little more oil to the same pan, and fry the beef. Leave the marinade aside.
- Once the beef is all browned, set aside. Add 1-2 cups of water to your marinade.
- Pour Marinade into the pan with the cornstarch slurry and let thicken.
- Add beef back into thickened marinade and cook for 7-10 minutes till beef is tender and fully cooked. Add the sauteed onion rings.
- Serve over white rice and enjoy :)