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Beef Morcon Recipe

Recipe #1 Ingredients:

• 1 kilo beef, sliced 1/4 inch thick (3 pcs.)
• 1/4 kilo ground beef liver
• 200 grams sliced sausages or ham
• 200 grams pork fat (cut is strips)
• 3 hard boiled eggs, sliced
• 100 grams Cheddar cheese in  strips
• 100 grams grated Cheddar cheese
• 2 onions, chopped
• 5 bay leaf (laurel)
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup vinegar
• 2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups of water
• 2 meters thread or string (for tying)

Cooking Instructions:

1. Spread and stretch the sliced beef on your working table.
2. Arrange the filling on the sliced beef: sausage strips, cheese strips, sliced eggs, pork fat and some ground liver.
3. Roll the sliced beef with all the filling inside and secure with a thread or string.
4. Repeat the procedure for the two remaining beef slices.
5. On a pot, place the beef rolls and put the water, the remaining ground liver, grated cheese, chopped onions, bay leaves, ground black pepper and salt.
6. Cover the pot and bring to a boil. Simmer for one hour.
7. Add the vinegar and continue to simmer of another hour or until beef is tender.
8. Slice the beef morcon, arrange on a platter and top with the sauce/ gravy poured on top.

Recipe #2 Ingredients:

• 1 kilo  Beef Sirloin, cut morcon style
• 2 tbsp Calamansi juice, fresh
• ½ cup Soy sauce
• ½ tsp. Black pepper
• 1 pc Large pickle, sliced lengthwise into strips
• 1 pc Egg, hard-cooked then sliced into quarters
• 1 pc. Small carrot, sliced into strips
• 2 pc Hotdogs, sliced into strips
• 3 tbsp. Flour
• ¼ cup Cooking oil
• 1 cup Chopped white onions
• 1 cup Chopped red and green bell peppers
• Water to cover
• 1 pc. Bay leaf
• 2 tbsp. Tomato paste
• 1 can Liver spread
• Salt and pepper
• 2 pcs. Hard-cooked eggs, sliced

Procedure

Marinate Beef Sirloin in calamansi juice and soy sauce for at least 3 hours in the refrigerator. Arrange strips of Hotdogs, pickles, eggs and carrots on the marinated Beef Sirloin. Roll neatly then tie with a string. Reserve marinade for later use. Dredge in flour then brown in oil. Remove from pan.

Using the same pan, saute garlic and onions. Add bell pepper, water, bay leaf and marinade. Return meat and cook covered, stirring occasionally over low heat until Beef Sirloin becomes tender. Add tomato paste and liver spread. Season with salt and pepper. Cook for another 5 minutes. Slice and serve with sauce.

Makes 6 servings.

Pork Hamonado

Recipe #1 Ingredients:

• 1 kilo pork pigue, sliced thinly to make 2 pieces (tapa style)
• 1 cup brown sugar (packed)
• 1-1/3 tsp. iodized salt
• 2 tsp. praque powder (for 1/8 tsp. salitre)
• 200 grams pork fat, sliced into 8 strips
• 1 can (439 grams) pineapple chunks, drained (reserve syrup)
• 1 can (35 cl) pineapple juice

Procedure:

Combine sugar, salt and praque powder or salitre. Rub mixture on pork. Spread pork and alternately arrange slices of pork fat and pineapple chunks until all ingredients are used up. Roll and tie firmly with crocheting thread.

Combine dripping from pork, pineapple chunks syrup and pineapple juice then marinate meat overnight. Simmer meat in marinade for 1 hour. Remove thread from meat then chill if desired for ease of cutting. Continue simmering the marinade for 5 minutes or until thick and serve as sauce. Let cool before slicing the meat then arrange in a platter.

Recipe #2 Ingredients:

• 1 ½ kgs pork top round and cut into 1 whole sheet about ½ inch thick

Marinade:

• 1 can 1.36-liter pineapple juice
• 1 tbsp salt
• ½ tsp pepper
• 2 tbsps dark soy sauce

Stuffing:

• 1 kg hotdogs
• 4 hard boiled eggs, quartered lengthwise

Procedure:

1. Marinate pork sheets in marinade mixture for 2 days inside the fridge. Turn once in a while.
2. Spread pork sheet and arrange hotdogs and hard boiled eggs in one end. Roll from that end and tie with strings sealing the stuffings. Dust with flour.
3. Lightly fry the rolls on all sides.
4. Bring to a boil the marinade and add the pork rolls. Add more pineapple juice if the liquid dries up. Simmer for 3 hours.

To serve: Remove strings from the rolls. Slice. Strain the remaining liquid and use as sauce.

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