🇵🇭 How to Make Tapsilog

Craving Tapsilog? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Tapsilog at home, in about 20 min + curing, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 400g beef sirloin, sliced thin
• 4 tbsp soy sauce
• juice of 3 calamansi or 1 lemon
• 4 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 2 cups garlic fried rice (sinangag)
• 2 eggs, fried sunny side up
• vinegar dip

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Marinate the beef in the soy, citrus, garlic and sugar. Overnight is standard.
2. Tapsilog is a portmanteau: TAPa, SInangag, itLOG — cured beef, garlic rice, egg. All three or it is not tapsilog.
3. Fry day-old rice hard with a lot of chopped garlic until the grains separate and toast.
4. Fry the beef in a very hot pan in a single layer, 1–2 min a side, until the sugar caramelises at the edges.
5. Fry the eggs so the yolk stays runny — it becomes the sauce.
6. Plate all three side by side with a saucer of spiced vinegar. Breakfast, and often dinner.