A tapsilog plate — beef tapa with fried garlic, a mound of rice and a fried egg
Principiante

Beef Tapa (Tapsilog)

Beef cured overnight in soy, calamansi and garlic, then fried hard and served with garlic rice and a fried egg — the plate called tapsilog, and the Filipino breakfast that keeps 24-hour diners in business.

Fuente

Receta de Filipino home kitchens · 🏺 Tradicional · Cooking that turns on three levers — vinegar, salt from fish or shrimp, and fat — and a table where sour, salty and rich are balanced by the eater, not the cook.

Philippines · the -silog breakfast — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms tapa as dried or cured meat, prepared by Filipinos using thin slices of beef and other meats. `Tapsilog` redirects to it, and the note says so rather than citing a title that does not resolve. Quantities and the dry-the-beef instruction are this book's own.

Contexto en Wikipedia ↗

⏱ 40 min🍽 4 porciones🔥 620 kcal🇵🇭 Filipinas
Sin lácteosSin frutos secos

Pasos

  1. Mix the beef with the soy, calamansi, marinade garlic, sugar and pepper. Refrigerate overnight, or at least 4 hours.

  2. Fry the rice garlic in 3 tbsp oil until pale gold, then toss the day-old rice through it and season with salt.

    💡 Day-old rice, not fresh. Fresh rice steams and clumps; cold rice separates into grains and takes the garlic oil.

  3. Lift the beef out of the marinade and pat it dry.

    💡 Dry it properly. Wet beef in a pan boils in its own marinade and goes grey instead of catching and caramelising.

  4. Fry the beef in a very hot pan in batches, 90 seconds a side, until the edges char.

  5. Fry the eggs so the yolk stays runny.

  6. Plate the three together and serve the vinegar dip alongside.

💡 Consejos

  • The -silog names are a formula: TAPa + SInangag + itLOG. Longsilog, tocilog, bangsilog and spamsilog all follow it.
  • Tapa was originally a way of preserving meat by curing and drying. The overnight marinade is what is left of that.

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