Sizzling Bulalo Recipe – Before understanding what sizzling bulalo is, let’s take a look at bulalo. Bulalo is a Filipino beef soup dish that mainly features beef shanks and bone marrow. They are cooked until the collagen and fat have melted into the clear broth. Some of the ingredients you can enjoy with the meat include leafy vegetables, corn on the cob, scallions, onions, garlic, ginger, and fish sauce. While this is traditionally a soup dish, there is another way to enjoy it. That is, on a metal plate as a sizzling steak with vegetables.
Sizzling Bulalo
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs beef shank
- 1 piece cooked sweet corn cooked
- 10 ounces condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 1/2 cups fresh white mushrooms sliced
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 3 3/4 cups water
Instructions
- Make the mushroom gravy. Heat a cooking pot or sauce pan then add the 1 tablespoon butter and melt. Put-in the mushroom and sauté for 3 minutes. Add the condensed cream of mushroom soup then stir. Pour 3/4 cup water; add 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper then stir. Simmer for 5 minutes or until the sauce thickens.Set aside.
- Arrange Beef Shank in a cooking pot then sprinkle 1 teaspoon salt.
- Pour 3 cups water and apply heat. Let boil and simmer until the beef is tender. Remove from the cooking pot and place in a clean plate. Note: add water as needed.
- Season both sides of the beef with 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper, and garlic powder. Set aside.
- Heat a pan then add 2 tablespoons butter. Let the butter melt.
- Pan-fry both sides of the beef for at least 2 minutes per side.
- Heat the sizzling plate (metal plate) then put-in 1 tablespoon butter and let melt.
- Arrange the pan fried beef on the sizzling plate, top with mushroom gravy, and place the corn on the side.
- Serve hot. Share and enjoy!
Other Options for a Sizzling Bulalo Recipe
As a soup dish originally, there are several ingredients you can add to bulalo, However, there is only so much you can pack onto a sizzling plate without drowning the meat. Usually, bulalo includes leafy vegetables, corn on the cob, scallions, onions, garlic, ginger, and fish sauce. You also have the option to add potatoes, carrots, or taro. Depending on the recipe, there are various vegetables you can pair with the meat on the metal plate.
There are also other tips to make the sizzling meat dish even more delicious. For example, you can add some fried garlic for some extra crunch and flavor as a topping. Or you can check out other Filipino sizzling dishes such as our “Chicken Sisig Recipe” and “Tuna Sisig Recipe.” Since bulalo is originally a soup dish, you may be interested in other similar dishes like “Nilaga.” If you want to try other beef dishes, you should check out “Morcon.”
