Canned Corned Beef Nilaga (in Soup with Vegetables) Quick & Easy. Nothing beats my Mom's slow-cooked vegetable soup. It's a labor of love that starts with stew meat in the slow Add corn and at the end a small can cream corn, delicious. My vegetable beef takes about two and a half hours but it's worth it.
What a delicious way to reinvent the wheel, I thought. Leftover corned beef is transformed into a delicious barley and vegetable soup. If you don't have leftovers, use thick deli slices of corned beef. You can cook Canned Corned Beef Nilaga (in Soup with Vegetables) Quick & Easy using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Canned Corned Beef Nilaga (in Soup with Vegetables) Quick & Easy
- You need of Your favorite canned corned beef (or the fresh meat kind).
- Prepare of Mixed Veggies.
- You need 1-2 of red onions, sliced.
- You need 1/2 of garlic head, choped coarsely.
- It's 2 T of Cooking oil.
- It's 1 of beef billion broth cube.
- Prepare Dash of peppercorns.
- It's to taste of Salt.
- Prepare 1 of bay / laurel leaf (optional).
- You need 1-2 L of water.
You probably have most of the ingredients on hand, and some of them can be swapped out or omitted. Soup is one of those versatile dishes that can be. Beef Nilaga is a type of stew cooked with potatoes, carrots, and sometimes plantains. Trying this recipe will make yo feel warm on cold weather.
Canned Corned Beef Nilaga (in Soup with Vegetables) Quick & Easy instructions
- If you're using the fresh corned beef, boil in water first until tender. Saute in a pot the garlic and onions. Add water and the fresh beef. Season with salt, peppercorns, bay leaf, beef broth cube. SKIP THIS IF USING CANNED BEEF..
- If using canned version, start with sauteeing garlic and onions in oil in a pan. Add the canned corned beef, including the solid fat bits you see in it (that makes it tasty!). My favorite is the Delimondo brand atm. More expensive than the other local kinds but you can be sure it's 100% beef. Delicious too..
- Transfer to a pot and add water. Season with salt, peppercorns, bay leaf, beef broth cube. This is a soup dish so you can add water depending on how much soup you want. Just taste and season or add more broth cube..
- Drop in your mixed veggies, hard vegetables first and bring to a boil. Add the leafy veggies last as it cooks quickly. The traditional "Nilaga" vegetables include potatoes, cabbage, napa cabbage, pechay or bokchoy, carrots and green beans. I suppose u can try spinach too. Taste and season if needed. (unpeeled but brushed potatoes, it's my thing, LOL, not very cheffy but I want the nutrients in it)..
- Serve while hot. Perfect for cold nights/days. Here we eat it year round, on hot and hotter days LOL. Below is a variation with beef shank marrow and noodles..
Beef Nilaga or Nilagang Baka is literally translated as "Boiled Beef". This is a simple soup dish best served during rainy and cold weather. One of the simplest beef soups you can whip up! What makes it so delicious is really the beef. The key to the best tasting nilaga is the beef.