Bulalo
December 19, 2003
Filed under Comfort food, Filipino food, Meat recipes, Soup recipes, Vegetable recipes
Ingredients :
750 g. of bulalo (bone-in beef shank)
1 whole onion
1 whole garlic
1 bay leaf
6-8 peppercorns
salt
2 bunches of pechay (Chinese cabbage or pei tsai)
1/2 head of cabbage (Napa variety)
250 g. of potatoes
1 large carrot
Cooking procedure :
Have the grocer or meat vendor cut the shank crosswise into 1-1/2″ thick pieces. The best way to do this is to have it cut with an electric meat saw.
Place the beef shanks in a large casserole. Cover with water. Add the whole onion, garlic (pierced in several places with a sharp pointed knife), bay leaf and peppercorns. Season with salt. Set over high heat and bring to a boil, removing scum as it rises. Lower the heat, cover and simmer for two hours or until the beef is fork-tender. Alternatively, pressure-cook for one hour and 30 minutes.
Using a slotted spoon, carefully remove the beef shanks and arrange at the center of individual soup bowls. Strain the broth. Reheat to boiling point.
Peel the carrot and potatoes and cut into chunks. Core the cabbage and cut in half. Trim the ends of the pechay. Add the carrots to the broth and simmer for 5-7 minutes. Add the potatoes and cabbage leaves and simmer for another 8-10 minutes. Lastly, add the pechay leaves and simmer for another 3 minutes.
Scoop the vegetables out and arrange around the bulalo. Pour in hot broth and serve at once.
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try putting si-bot in your bulalo, a japanese wild herb that blends and add a gud oozing taste in your bulalo.
Oooh, I new new twists to old dishes. I’ll look out for that one. Thanks.
tastes really good!but where can we can si-bot?got to try that one
everytime i cook bulalo I come back here… this is my electronic cookbook… lol
i’m still looking for it myself, jell.
mell, a toast to bulalo!
hi can u send me more classic menu,b-fast,lunch dinner dessert soup, drinks?salamat po
Agapito, there is a subscription service on the side panel. You can use that if you wish.
i want to take my hubby to sosengs this weekend… where is this exactly?
Dian Street, ice.
hi!
i want to cook bulalo batangas style…what are the ingredients?
pls help…..
anybody in there…………….
i didnt try it yet but im gonna do it soon. i hope you can have a sending part so i can send it to my sister abroad.
louellen, why not just send the URL? The “e-mail to a friend” function kasi is so prone to abuse by SPAMMERS.
this bulalo recipe seems to be yummy.i’m gonna give it a try over the weekend.
hi there! i was just browsing and i came accross on ur website by accident. I’m so glad i did for it was the best site ever. It brought back so many good yummy food memories back home. The best thing about this is so clear and easy to follow. Not to mention the pictures…. gosh…. what can i say, they’re so enticing! This definitely would mark in my favorites. Thank You Much!:wink:
I was looking for your bulalo recipe in google and happened to see a word for word copy of your recipe I thought you have a new site, do you?
julie, the only new site is pinoyfooftalk.com and the bulalo recipe was not reproduced there. however, i did find the content thief via google and sent a notice already. thanks for the tip.
[...] from long-simmered beef bones. The first time I had it, I was reminded right away of our very own bulalo, a flavorful soup best served hot. The difference is that this Malay soup has strong spices [...]
[...] to enjoy, as our eyes do… lunch time was like another feast, served with Filipino dishes from bulalo to adobo, kare-kare, grilled fish, ensalada and pancit canton, green mango dipped in bagoong and [...]
wow what a pinoy foods, thxs for making that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Hi to edward,hannah,enna,emy and yani
Nakita ko po tong bulalo recipe mo sa isa pang site… Nagpaalam ba sayo?
http://domengxtreme.multiply.com/recipes
Cooking is also my passion and Bulalo is definitely a favorite. Eating too much of bulalo or bone marrow can be damaging to your heart and it’s a NO NO if you have high blood pressure. So be careful with your diet.
connie, have you tried putting corn on the cob? yung friend ko pg me handaan kami bulalo lagi daladala at nilalagyan nya ng corn. malinamnam yung soup.
with si-bot naman, narinig ko to sa mga chinese dishes. nilalagay nga nila to sa soup nila. ang lam ko nga e its an aprodisiac e, dunno if its true.
Happy Joy, daming magnanakaw sa Multiply.
Beng, in my nilagang baka, yes (which is basically the same except for the bone marrow).
I commented re: si-bot before but for some reason it wasn’t published. Si-bot is composed of 4 types of Chinese dried herbs and yes, it is an aphrodisiac, but really good and healthy kasi energizer siya. Pero with warning sa mga gusto mag-try ng si-bot, please wag gamitin if you are sick and trying to recover and if you have your monthly cycle.
I am married to a Chinese, and I have cooked si-bot twice already in the past month with chicken naman, but I’m sure this tasty bulalo will work with it just as well…
(sana ma-publish na ito this time)
Thanks!
try nyu din po pakulo nyu yun meat hanggang lumabot with at least 6-7 pcs thumbsized ginger (wag nyu hiwain yun ginger ilagay nyu ng buo) paglumambot n yun meat lgay nyo ng salt or patis yun desired nyo alat tpos lagay nyu din ng bunch of spring onions simmer for 1min..serve nyo n ehehe…(pede nyu lagyan ng petchay kung gusto nyo may gulay..yun lng po happy eating and cooking…
thanks po ng marami.dami ko natutunan sa inyo.GOD .BLESS
[...] way just happens to have bone marrow as a happy accident. It is a beef broth called nilaga or bulalo. Nilaga essentially means boiled, while bulalo means beef shank soup. This clear beefy broth [...]
from what I know, sibut is a chinese herb. we use it a lot on our dishes. we usually buy it in ongpin. but may mga nkikita din ako sa groceries.