This is an AI-generated image.

Bulalo

Name: Bulalo
Total time: 180 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Philippines
Ingredients: 800g Bone-In Beef Shank; 2 Corn (in rounds); 1/4 Cabbage; 2 Potato; 1 Onion; 2 tbsp Fish Sauce (patis); 1 tsp Black Peppercorns

Soup

⏱ 180 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Beef shank and marrow bones simmered until meltingly tender — a nourishing Filipino beef soup.

📱 Open in Storage App

🚧 The Storage app is currently in development. Please check back soon.

📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bulalo is a beef soup said to come from Batangas province in southern Luzon. Beef shank full of marrow is simmered for hours with cabbage, corn, and potato. The clear, simple broth gets rich savoriness from the melting marrow, and sucking the marrow from the bone with a straw is the Filipino way to enjoy it. It's also known as a specialty of the cool highland resort town of Tagaytay.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At an eatery in the cool highlands, a family gathers around a steaming pot of bulalo, sucking marrow from the bones with straws.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Bone-In Beef Shank 800g
Corn (in rounds) 2
Cabbage 1/4
Potato 2
Onion 1
Fish Sauce (patis) 2 tbsp
Black Peppercorns 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Put the beef shank in a large pot with plenty of water, bring to a boil over high heat, and carefully skim off the scum.
Add the onion and black pepper and simmer on low for over 2 hours until the meat is tender.
Add the corn and potato and simmer 20 more minutes.
Add the cabbage, cook briefly, and season with patis (fish sauce).
Serve piping hot and suck out the marrow as you eat.

← More Philippines recipes 🗺 Explore another country