Nearly everyone around the world has considered trying steak, a staple of Western cuisine. Steak drives the restaurant business, consistently ranking as a top seller. I have an insatiable desire for novel tastes, just like you. Today on TheHomeCookbible, we combine western and Filipino cooking techniques to prepare a steak dish that will surely please. Steak lovers, try this innovative method of preparation and enjoy your favorite food from a whole new angle.
Caldereta, a traditional Filipino dish, features beef stew simmered in a spicy tomato sauce. It includes potatoes, chickpeas, bell peppers, Thai chili peppers, green olives, and liver spread (duck liver pate). Each residence offers a distinct interpretation of this meal. Caldereta’s distinctive spiciness clearly stands out among the other features of the cuisine. Let us dive right into the good stuff—the sauce.
Caldereta Sauce
Ingredients:
- Butter 15g
- Oil 2Tbsp (30ml)
- Garlic 4 Cloves (mince)
- Onion 1/2 (mince)
- Tomato Paste 3Tbsp (45g)
- Tomato Sauce 1/2 Cup (125ml)
- Water 60ml
- Jalapeño or Thai Chili 2pc (small dice)
- Liver Spread 60g
- Rosemary 1 stem
- Chickpea 60g
- Salt & Pepper To Taste
Procedure:
- Put the oil and butter in the saucepan and heat it over medium heat; then, add the garlic and onion and sauté them for 3 minutes.
- Once the garlic and onion have been browned, stir in the tomato paste and cook for 4 minutes; then, bring the tomato sauce and water boil.
- Mix in the liver spread, jalapeño or Thai chili pepper, and rosemary while the tomato sauce is simmering. Do this for a full two minutes.
- Once the sauce has finished cooking, pour it into a blender and purée it until smooth.
- After smoothing out the sauce, return it to a saucepan and add the chickpeas. Cook the chickpea, then add salt and pepper to taste, and the sauce is ready.
Since we’ve already made the caldereta sauce, we can now move to the steak, which is where the real fun of the recipe begins.
Steak
Ingredients:
- Butter 2Tbsp (30g)
- Olive oil or Cooking Oil 2Tbsp (30g)
- Garlic 4 Cloves (Whole)
- Rosemary 2-3pcs of Stem
- Whole Black Pepper 1 Tsp (5g)
- Sirloin Steak 663g
- Heirloom Carrots 3pcs
- Salt & Pepper To Season the Steak
Procedure:
- Season the steak with salt and pepper, and get it ready to cook.
- Once the steak is prepared put the olive oil and butter in a sauté pan and cook them over medium heat until the butter has melted. After that, toss in the rosemary, garlic, and whole black pepper to release their flavors and aromas.
- After the flavor has been drawn out, the steak should be seared on both sides and finished off in an oven preheated to more than 450 degrees for around 5 to 6 minutes.
- On a separate pan cook the heirloom carrots in the oven for about 5mins
- Remove the steak from the oven and let it rest for 5 minutes once it is done cooking. Use the same pan where the steak is cooked to sauté the cooked heirloom carrots from the oven while the steak resting.
- And when the carrot is already sautéed you can proceed to assemble the rest of the cooked ingredients on the plate and ready to serve.
Note: You can Partner it with mashed potatoes or Salad.
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To Wrap It Up
Now you know how to make steak with Calderata sauce, so go ahead and give it a try at home. Thank you all for reading this entire post. Share your thoughts and questions in the comments section below. Visit www.thehomecookbible.com for helpful information and recipes about cooking and the restaurant business.
