Overseas Pinoy Cooking

Saucy Bistek with Fried Potatoes │ Bistek Carinderia Styl e Ingredients: 1/2 kilo beef sirloin, cut into thin slices 2-3 medium size potatoes, sliced 1 medium size white onion, cut into rings 2-3 medium size red onions, cut into rings 1/4 cup cornstarch, diluted in water 1/3 head garlic, chopped kalamansi cooking oil Marinade: 1 head garlic, crushed 1-2 tbsp. cracked black peppercorns 1 tbsp. rock salt or according to taste 1-2 tbsp. brown sugar optional 1/3 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup

Pork Chop Steak, Bistek Style Pork Chop Steak, Bistek Style is not new. Pork chop cooked Bistek Style is very common especially in most carinderia and canteen or similar turo turo restaurants. This is because pork chop is one of the most favorite pork cut of most Pinoy who loves pork. Pork chop in turo turo restaurant is very easy to quantify or measure, it is served by piece therefore it is priced by piece. Pork Chop Steak, Bistek Style will go long way when served with rice. Because it is sourly salty and savory it will definitely make a perfect viand for rice. See the original recipe from Overseas Pinoy Cooking website: https://www.overseaspinoycooking.net/... You can also check other Bistek Recipe/Version: https://www.overseaspinoycooking.net/... Ingredients: 6-7 pieces thick cut pork chop steak 2-3 medium size red onions cut into rings 2-3 medium size white onions cut into rings 1 small size onion, sliced or chopped 1/2 head garlic, crushed, chopped 1/4 cup soy sauce 1/2 tbsp. sug...

Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style . I have cooked this similar dish using salmon fillets before. Check that post of Fried Salmon Pinoy Bistek Style . Cooking is definitely exactly the same.   Similar to the salmon recipe our Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style was cooked perfectly. The pictures speaks for itself… a thousand words! Of course beside good photos the dish came out really great. It is yummy, very Pinoy . It may seams intimidating to cook but it is really easy to cook. All it involves are 2 stages of cooking. First the snapper fillets has to be pan fried. The secret is to get the skin crisp fried then everything will fall in the right places. Just remember that the fish would not take long to fry. Over frying the fish makes the fish hard and dry. The onion for this recipe are fried separately. The bistek sauce is just basically a quick boil or simmer of the mixture of soy sauce and lemon juice. Here is the recipe of my Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style ....

Eggplant Pinoy Bistek,  Bistek na Talong is another OPC’s innovative Pinoy dish that is simple, economical and most of all very yummy that suit the Pinoy palate . For this recipe, I used the large classic eggplant . Sliced the eggplant crosswise into thin round slices. I then fried the slices in batches. Please be aware that the eggplant will absorbed the oil during frying. Now if you are not into very oily food, I recommend to first soak the sliced eggplants with water before frying. Soaking the eggplants with water will absorbed some of the water and forms a barrier to prevent or minimized the oil from being absorbed by the frying eggplant . Cooking our Eggplant Pinoy Bistek is very simple. It requires a little tweak on the usual cooking method of a Bistek Tagalog . Before I give you the recipe you may want to check out our other Bistek dishes in our archives. Just click the link list below. Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style   Fried Salmon Pinoy Bistek Styl...

Pork Chop Steak, Bistek Style is not new. Pork chop cooked Bistek Style is very common especially in most carinderia and canteen or similar turo turo restaurants . This is because pork chop is one of the most favorite pork cut of most Pinoy who loves pork. Pork chop in turo turo restaurant is very easy to quantify or measure, it is served by piece therefore it is priced by piece . Pork Chop Steak, Bistek Style will go long way when served with rice. Because it is sourly salty and savory it will definitely make a perfect viand for rice. Cooking my Pork Chop Steak, Bistek Style is basically the same with all my other Pinoy Bistek Style cooked meat . The pork chops are first marinated with the soysauce and kalamansi or lemon juice mixture together with the basic Pinoy aromatic ingredient, garlic and pepper . Check out some of my Bistek Style recipe below. Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style   Fried Salmon Pinoy Bistek Style   Tanguige Bistek Tagalog   Tun...

Fried Salmon Pinoy Bistek Style is another innovative dish from OPC . I have been in Australia for years now and all those years, I stayed away  cooking salmon for the reason that I find it intimidating to make a Pinoy dish out of it. I did tried once to cook a skin on salmon fillet, that was when I first arrived here in Australia. It was a beautiful Sweet and Sour Tasmanian Salmon , I did cooked it soo perfect that even the photos is comparable to those glossy Photoshop pictures of food magazines. That was the first and last time I cooked fresh salmon fillet till today. I wanted to cook a Pinoy dish out of the beautiful salmon fillet for the Holy Week , I hope everybody will like and try it. I spent a lot of time thinking of what Pinoy dish to cook a  "skin on salmon fillet" , the dish should retain the attributes of perfectly pan fried salmon. The skin shall be crispy, the meat shall be cooked to perfection retaining its natural colors. I com...

Tuna Bistek with Eggplant. During my recent trip to Sarangani , I brought back with me one box full of assorted cut of Tuna . Sarangani is the Tuna capital of the Philippines . I have to get the Styrofoam box filled up to maximize the space and of course to take advantage of the cheaper price of Tuna from the source. Now run out of what to do with the rest of Tuna Kinilaw cuts that I had. Eventually I decided to do Tuna Bistek with Eggplant with the Tuna fillets . Fish Bistek is not new to OPC in fact I have made several post of Fish Bistek before. Click on the link list below to check them out. Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style   Fried Salmon Pinoy Bistek Style   Tanguige Bistek Tagalog   Bangus Bistek Tagalog   Bangus Belly Bistek Tagalog   Cooking method of my Tuna Bistek with Eggplant is more or less the same of the above Fish Bistek recipes. I have to make the recipe of my Tuna Bistek with Eggplant to next level by infusing it ...

Chicken Liver, Bistek Style . The best method of cooking chicken liver is either Adobo or Bistek Tagalog style. For today I want to share my version of Chicken Live,r Bistek Style . There is no special about it just that the liver should be marinated, the marinade is discarded after use, I do not re-use the marinade of my liver Bistek . For the sauce I just add fresh soy sauce and kalamansi. Buy the freshest chicken liver. Cooking is fairly simple, it is basically similar to my other Bistek dishes . Click the link list below to find out our other Bistek recipes . Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style   Fried Salmon Pinoy Bistek Style   Tanguige Bistek Tagalog   Tuna Bistek with Eggplant   Bangus Bistek Tagalog   Bangus Belly Bistek Tagalog   Pork Bistek   Pork Loin Steak, Bistek Style   Pork Chop Steak, Bistek Style   Beef Sirloin Steak, Bistek Style   Bistek Stir Fry   Bistek Bulalo with Pineapple   Bistek Bulalo   Biste...

Beef Sirloin Steak, Bistek Style . I have done this recipe using pork loin a couple of weeks back. This time I wanted to have it using beef, there are a several beef steak cut choices but I opted to choosing sirloin steak . I would recommend to choose the tender steak cuts which require less cooking. If you are sourcing your meat at Manila Wet Markets then just buy the tenderloi n and cut it crosswise to a thickness about 15mm slices. As I have mentioned on my Pork Loin Steak, Bistek Style , it is important that the beef sirloin steak or any similar cut be given sufficient time to marinate using soy sauce and kalamansi or lemon marinade.  Cooking is basically the same with my other Bistek dish , click the link below should you want to see my other Bistek Recipes in the archives. Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style   Fried Salmon Pinoy Bistek Style   Tanguige Bistek Tagalog   Tuna Bistek with Eggplant   Bangus Bistek Tagalog   Bangus Belly Bis...

Pork Loin Steak, Bistek Style is a delicious and fairly easy to prepare Pinoy food that any newbie cook can make. The recipe was based from the all-time Pinoy food favorite Bistek Tagalog . Instead of using beef slices I have used pork loin steaks which were already sliced pre-packed of three pork loin steaks about 15mm thick each slice and about 1/4 kilo for the three slices, just enough for 2 to 3 servings. Alternately you can just buy some small to medium pork loin and diagonally slice it for about 15mm thick, crosswise. This is similar to my Pork Bistek that was posted few years back how-ever this time our pork loins are cut thicker steak style. It is important the pork loin slices be given sufficient time to marinate using soy sauce and kalamansi or lemon marinade. Cooking my Pork Loin Steak, Bistek Style is basically the same with my other Bistek dish, click the link below should you want to see my other Bistek Recipes in the archives. See other Bistek recipes...

Bistek Bulalo with Pineapple . This is my second version of my Bistek Bulalo , this time I have introduced another ingredient and tweaked the popular Pinoy bistek dish . The previous Bistek Bulalo was made using pre-boiled 2 inches thick saw cut bulalo cooked Pinoy bistek style with thicken/gravy like sauce. For my second version I omitted the pre-boiling part but I have to ask the butcher to saw cut the bulalo to about 1/2 inch this will facilitate easier frying. Cooking method still involved the usual marinating of the beef/bulalo with soy sauce, lemon and some garlic powder. The pineapple slices were seared to caramelized this was done after stir frying the union slices using the same cooking oil and frying pan which was also eventually used in frying the beef/bulalo slices. And finally all the ingredients including the remaining marinade and pineapple syrup was the cooked all together to infuse the flavours together. This one is a must try dish should you are looking for...

Bangus Bistek Tagalog . This is my second dish of Bistek Tagalog dish using bangus . On the first recipe I used bangus belly which turned out great obviously because it was loaded with fish fats, click the link to check the recipe of that Bangus Belly Bistek Tagalog . Now for my second recipe I used large bangus cut into slices, Yes whole bangus with head is available on this part of Australia where I am presently located. I was recently relocated in a town near Mackay . Mackay it is a small City where most of the residents work on the coal mines or businesses that somehow support the mining industry in the area. There’s significant number of Overseas Pinoy here compared to places I’ve been and I mean skilled Pinoys who work in the mines. Now I have to connect these facts to my Bangus Bistek Tagalog post. The City has a relatively sized Pinoy Asian store that support the Pinoy community , that's where the bangus used on today’s recipe was bought. Cooking my Bangus B...

Mushroom and Tofu Pinoy, Bistek Style is another innovative vegetarian inspired dish that I made for lunch today. This is part of a series of healthy dish that I will try to introduce in between my regular recipes. This is also in response to some emails and request for healthier Pinoy food recipes that OPC have received. The dish can be classified as a vegetarian version of the Pinoy bistek , the dish is 100% vegan including the oyster sauce that I used. Yes there is a vegetarian oyster sauce that is made of mushroom oyster extracts and some oyster essence. The dish is fairly easy to make there are some points do that I want to mention. For the mushroom I used fresh large portabella mushrooms. Mushrooms absorb a lot of liquid, including the salty soy sauce therefore the mushroom is first stir fried with the oil used in stir-frying the onions, this will absorb the onion infused oil and sealing it for further absorption of the soy sauce. The tofu naturally take its flavours fr...