Recipe: Perfect Beef Tapa

Beef Tapa. When Meat's Raised Right, It Tastes Better Than Anything You've Ever Had. Dry-aged, pasture-raised & full of flavor. Beef Tapa is a classic Filipino dish often served for breakfast with garlic fried rice and sunny side up eggs.

A combination of sweet, salty and garlicky flavors. It can be eaten any tme of the day but it's a popular breakfast to many Filipinos. Beef Tapa is dried cured beef similar to "Beef Jerky". You can have Beef Tapa using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Beef Tapa

1. It's 1/4 of Beef Sirloin.
2. It's 5 tbsp of soy sauce.
3. It's of 1 tsp sugar.
4. It's 1 pinch of salt.
5. It's 2 cloves of garlic.

This is traditionally prepared by curing the meat with sea salt and letting it dry directly under the sun for the purpose of preserving the meat. Nowadays, commercialized Beef Tapa are often cured but most do not undergo drying. Tapa is usually fried and is best served with vinegar. Beef Tapa Aside from Pork Longganisa , Beef Tapa (cured meat) is another breakfast favorite that is eaten with garlic fried rice and fried egg.

Beef Tapa instructions

1. Mix 5 tsp of soysauce,1tsp sugar and pinch of salt..
2. Add beef and rub the marinate on the meat. Used meat mallet to pound meat and to make it more softer.
3. Marinate it for 5-6 minutes.
4. Fry the Beef in Cooking oil until cook.

You can find it on the menu of Filipino restaurants or fast food chains as "Tapsilog" which literally means tapa ( tap - Beef Tapa) + sinangag ( si - garlic fried rice) + itlog ( log - fried egg). Beef tapa is dried, cured beef similar to beef jerky. Traditionally, it was prepared by curing the meat with salt. Nowadays, beef tapa is made by simply marinating the meat before frying or sautéing them. The word tapsilog is actually an abbreviation of the words tapa, sinangag (fried rice), and itlog (egg).