Mechado

(Filipino beef stew) Ingredients:

• 1 k. beef (cut into pieces),
• cooking oil,
• 4 cloves garlic (crushed),
• 1 onion (sliced),
• 2 potatoes (quartered, fried),
• 1 carrot (cut round),
• 2 tbsps. lemon juice,
• 2 tbsps. soy sauce,
• salt,
• peppercorn,
• 1 cup tomato sauce,
• 1 pc. Laurel,
• hot water

Cooking procedure:

Brown meat in cooking oil. set aside. In same oil sauté garlic and onion. add lemon, soy sauce, peppercorn, tomato sauce, laurel and salt, simmer for a few minutes then add water. cover and simmer. Add potatoes and carrot when meat is tender.