Nilagang baka — boiled beef with corn, cabbage, potato and pechay

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Nilagang Baka (Boiled Beef Soup)

Name: Nilagang Baka (Boiled Beef Soup)
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Filipino
Ingredients: 1.2 kg Beef shank, bone-in, in thick slices; 3 L Water; 1 Onion, quartered; 1 tbsp Black peppercorns; 3 tbsp Fish sauce (patis); 1 tsp Salt; 2 cobs Sweet corn, cut into 4 cm rounds; 3 Potatoes, halved; ½ head Cabbage, in wedges; 200 g Bok choy or pechay; 3 Spring onions; 4 Calamansi and bird's-eye chillies, to serve

Beef shank and bones boiled slowly with onion and peppercorns until the broth is clear and the meat gives, then corn, potatoes and cabbage added in order. Nothing in it but patience. Seasoned at the table with fish sauce and calamansi — the pot is deliberately plain.

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Recette de Filipino home kitchens · 🏺 Traditionnel · 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 plain boiled beef — An ownerless everyday dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms nilaga as a Filipino boiled beef (nilagang baka) or pork (nilagang baboy) soup with vegetables such as corn, potatoes, string beans, cabbage and bok choy, served with rice and with soy sauce, fish sauce, chillies and calamansi on the side. The shank note, the skimming rule, the vegetable order, timings and quantities are this book's own.

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Put the beef in the pot with the water, bring to a boil and skim thoroughly for the first 10 minutes.
💡 Skim like you mean it. A clear nilaga is the whole point, and what you do not remove now clouds the pot for good.
Add the onion and peppercorns, cover partly, and simmer at the barest bubble 2 hours until the meat is tender and pulls from the bone.
Season with the fish sauce and salt. Add the corn and potatoes and cook 15 minutes.
Add the cabbage wedges and cook 5 minutes, then the bok choy for 2 minutes more — it should stay bright green.
💡 Vegetables in order of toughness, and greens last. Cabbage that has boiled twenty minutes is grey and sweet-smelling in the wrong way.
Ladle into deep bowls with the spring onions. Put fish sauce, calamansi and chillies on the table and let each person season their own.

💡 Astuces

Nilagang baboy is the same pot with pork belly or ribs, done in an hour.
A saba banana or two, added with the potatoes, is common in the provinces and gives the broth a faint sweetness.